4 days agoControl: Life Update…I, Dalton Lewis, haven’t blogged for a while. Let’s catch up. Here’s what I’m up to: I’m taking a walk most days. I love the feeling of getting out into the world around me, seeing the trees and the grasses and the cars driving past me. It took into mid-May…Mental Health4 min read
Apr 14Control: Disastrous Experiences From My Twenties…I, Dalton Lewis, had a terrible time from the age of twenty to thirty. I thought I’d create a numbered list of the various disasters which happened in that era of my life. I drank. Why? I don’t know. I was stupid and decided to drink a lot of liquor…Mental Health4 min read
Apr 12Superhero Movies Critique: Spider-Man: No Way HomeI, Dalton Lewis, wanted to talk about the newest Marvel Cinematic Universe flick, Spider-Man: No Way Home. Spoilers below — watch the movie before you read the article. Please. Okay. Now you watched the movie; now read what I thought. I decided to use a numbered list. The plot revolves…Marvel Cinematic Universe4 min read
Apr 12Control: Goodbye, Covid — For NowThings seem back to normal. So far — fingers crossed. I, Dalton Lewis, noticed that no one seems to wear a mask anymore. Things are normal. Just four months ago I was self-isolating again because some deadly variant of the Covid-19 version of the Coronavirus was rampant through America, killing…Covid 193 min read
Apr 11Control: What I Did Wrong With My Recent Novels - And How You Can Learn From ThatI, Dalton Lewis, wrote several recent novels, including MKM: Mecha Kaiju Mars and Teenage Nightmare Chronicles. They were super brilliant — but not perfect. They didn’t sell a million copies or win me the Pulitzer yet. I need to self-evaluate those novels and try to figure out what I did…Writing3 min read
Apr 8Control: Depression Symptoms…I, Dalton Lewis, suffer from paranoid schizophrenia. Doctors diagnosed me around twenty years ago. I hear voices. During the last week or two, though, a different mental health issue showed up a little bit: I got depressed. This happens to everyone. Feeling down is part of life. I had just…Mental Health2 min read
Apr 2Control: Teenage Nightmare Chronicles…I, Dalton Lewis, novelist extraordinaire, wrote a particularly dark and ambitious horror novel — one about a lot of the issues affecting America today. It’s called Teenage Nightmare Chronicles. I put it out Thursday or so and no one has read it. No one! …Novel3 min read
Feb 17Control: Life UpdateI, Dalton Lewis, thought that I’d give an update on my life and how it’s going. I thought that I’d use a numbered list. Reading. I’m reading The Double by Dostoevsky; I’m considering calling it and not finishing it. I’m not thrilled by it — the main character is self-conscious…Mental Health4 min read
Feb 7Control: Writing Action Sci-FiI, Dalton Lewis, wrote another novel. I do that. I worked like crazy to throw my entire self, everything that I am, onto the page and give it to the audience. This one’s a giant space battle. Giant robots fight giant aliens. I decided that giant robots fighting giant aliens…Science Fiction3 min read
Feb 1Control: I Wrote a Bad Book and a Good Book…I, Dalton Lewis, wrote a bad book and a good book. First, the good: The Philosopher’s Guild was a novel about the greatest philosophers of all time. Gotey was the Buddha, the founder of a religion about moderation, peace, and doing the right thing. He fought a battle and hated…Writing3 min read