Tini Howard

2 months ago | tinihoward.substack.com | Tini Howard |Blake Howard

Today, I’m taking a short pivot from the next WORD SOUP AND SALAD session. While the next session is focused on beginning your writing post-resource gathering, think of this as a .5 session, a short philosophical musing on motivation and why you should starting making whatever it is you want to make, but presented to you as reviews of three movies I watched in a very strange order, and what I found there.

2 months ago | tinihoward.substack.com | Tini Howard |Blake Howard

Over on Instagram, I’ve been posting up a storm this weekend about small businesses, their owners, the economics of commercial holiday spending, et cetera. I’m simply not good at encouraging anyone to shop for the holidays, even when it’s my own shop. It quickly becomes an exercise in obligate consumerism, and that isn’t a way I like to love or be loved, to put it flatly. I myself really enjoy the effort and deadline of making gifts for my loved ones.

2 months ago | tinihoward.substack.com | Tini Howard |James Tynion IV |Alex Segura

I won’t be at San Diego Comic Con this year - I’ll be in the pool instead. I’m in one of those funny in-between places - I’ve started ramping up on my new projects, but they’re not ready to be announced yet. So, I’m taking the time this year to let myself just…chill. To work on those projects that have a longer tail, enjoy the peace and quiet, and save my energy for Dragoncon, which is always my big end-of-summer hurrah.

2 months ago | tinihoward.substack.com | David Grann |Tini Howard |Blake Howard

What a lovely break that was. When last we spoke, I was at the precipice of a huge chunk of pre-holiday deadlines. Upon completing our last vital correspondence,(my thoughts on the always-relevant Miss Universe National Costume Pageant), I dove into said deadlines, and by the time I looked up for air, it was December 20th, and I had worked through the past two weekends.

2 months ago | tinihoward.substack.com | Tini Howard |Blake Howard |Paul Scheer

This month, I’ve been focusing The Scorpio Room’s programming on one of my favorite things: horror movies. Not only was my birthday last week, but like most horror writers, and I are horror movie obsessives. We spend our whole October on a delicious and deadly media binge, catching up on everything from the past year’s horror offerings to long-buried classics.