11 hours agoControl: Empty SpacesI, Dalton Lewis, am filled with empty spaces — a husk, a shell, an emptiness that needs to be filled. I feel this hollow because no one reviewed my most recent book, The Dark Gods. I wrote a sprawling, 277-page novel about a war about slavery — a retelling of…Steps To Writing Novel3 min readSteps To Writing Novel3 min read
Jan 15Control: A Villain ProblemI, Dalton Lewis, have a villain problem. My villains need to step up and scare more people. They need to butcher, steal, and mistreat their way through my stories. My bad guys are cackling bad guys, gleefully enslaving people and doing horrible things without a hint of irony or depth…Writing3 min readWriting3 min read
Jan 10Control: The Three Stages of WritingI, Dalton Lewis, write novels despite having paranoid schizophrenia: a terrible mental health condition in which I talk to voices inside my head and rarely pay attention to the world around me. This makes it hard for me to create a story that tracks from chapter to chapter and makes…Steps To Writing Novel4 min readSteps To Writing Novel4 min read
Jan 8Control: The Dark GodsI, Dalton Lewis, wrote my longest and most ambitious novel, The Dark Gods. In it Kanziel has a new emperor who is opposed to slavery — and Tyzen, a province within Kanziel, enslaves many thousands of people. Tyzen wants to secede from the rest of Kanziel — they want to…Writing2 min readWriting2 min read
Jan 4Control: Football Injuries…Why do we like football if it is this barbaric? I, Dalton Lewis, love to watch football, and it’s a dangerous sport. People play 82 basketball games a year, 162 baseball games a year, but only 17 football games a year — because it’s so dangerous. …Football3 min readFootball3 min read
Jan 3Control: Weight Loss and Mental HealthI, Dalton Lewis, am a fat crazy person. I am overweight and mentally ill. I know that there are a lot of us: crazy people struggling with weight issues. I have been diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia — have lived with paranoid schizophrenia for twenty years. I don’t remember what it…Weight Loss3 min readWeight Loss3 min read
Jan 1Control Review: Avatar and the WaterI, Dalton Lewis, saw Avatar: The Way of Water three times. I never finished the first Avatar movie, but I saw this one. I can only guess what happened in the first one based on what happens in the second one. I watched the second one on my birthday recently…Movie Review4 min readMovie Review4 min read
Dec 29, 2022Control: I Wrote a Bad Novel — And Now I Want to Write a Better One…I, Dalton Lewis, have struggled recently. What I mean by that: I wrote a bad novel. I wrote one that everyone hated. Two stars. I have two ratings of my most recent novel — averaging two stars. Damn. That’s not good. It’s awful — I wrote a novel that was…Writi3 min readWriti3 min read
Dec 26, 2022Control Review: Terrifier 2I, Dalton Lewis, sit in my room at my computer. I have books on my computer — mostly mystery novels that I haven’t read. I want to try mysteries but haven’t managed to finish very many — it hasn’t happened yet. Maybe it’s not meant to be. I love procedural…Movie Review5 min readMovie Review5 min read
Nov 17, 2022Control: Novel ReleaseHow does one write better? That’s the question, right? How to write better. How to write a masterpiece. How do I move you, the reader, to tears, or to joy? How do I make you feel something, something real? I have written twenty books, but I have yet to write…Novels3 min readNovels3 min read
