Author & Novelist
When we think about vehicles to tell stories with, the obvious come to mind: novels, short stories, television, and movies even. Do we, as consumers of fiction, give enough credit to songs as vehicles for a story to be conveyed? The short answer is: songs are one of the supreme storytelling methods. This week, I’m going to talk about my favorite example: “The Sultans of Swing” by Dire Straits. Continue reading “Lyric Study: The Sultans of Swing”
The highlight of my week? Weezer releasing their cover of “Africa” by Toto. I’m not a huge fan of Weezer, but I do like the song and I think they did it exceptionally well. It sounded kind of demo-ish, but that’s the charm of it. Weezer’s cover gets my thumbs up approval. Continue reading “Weekly Roundup: Weezer Blessed the Rains Down in Africa!”
I promise you that I’m not writing these blogs to sound vain, or to try to give the impression that I’m a lot more established than what I am. I’m writing this stuff for myself a lot of the time. If I commit my schedule and method to page (or screen in this instance) then I feel like it’s the next step in my evolution as a writer. The ultimate goal is to have my stuff in book stores across the globe so that maybe I can sit next to Stephen King at some writing ceremony and feel like an even bigger fraud than I do now. Continue reading “The Miller Method: My Weekly Schedule”
If you’re a fan of “Broken Promise Records,” then I’ve got a good one for you this week! For those of you who remember the Silver Age of the internet in the mid-2000’s, when people still (kinda) bought CD’s, when YouTube wasn’t that big of a deal yet, and when you still read newspapers because you had your fill of people who spouted off bullshit that they’d read on the internet you know that blogs were still novelty; music blogs will still uncharted ground and the early adopters and taste makers were discovering bands around this time. Thanks to the help of Mr. Hendrix Wilson and Mr. Anthony “Antics” Reams, I’ve come across the transcripts of an interview they did with “The Hard Rockin’ Blogger.”
Somewhere between the time that I’d finished writing “Broken Promise Records” and releasing it on Amazon, I went shopping for a literary agent. “Why would you go looking for an agent? That sounds kind of pretentious!” Listen here, Self-Doubt, why wouldn’t I go looking for an agent? I liked writing “BPR” and I liked reading it, so I sought the help of people who might help a whole lot of other people read it too! True story: a lot of them don’t believe in the book as much as I do. Continue reading “If I’m a “Word Smith,” Does That Make My Desk a “Word Forge?””
A.P. Miller 