Chris Owens

(the aspiring writer, NOT the basketball player, or the politician, or the burlesque dancer, or the actor who played the son of the Smoking Guy on the X-files, or the other Chris Owens who rode the same school bus in the 6th grade)

Saturday, July 18, 2009

Understanding is a Three-Edge Sword: My edge on B5

No story is perfect and no form of storytelling is without its limitations. Both novels and television series are unique in that they can gi...

Sunday, March 22, 2009

Q109 Writers of The Future: The Envelope Please...

Joni called today . . . Alas, I wasn't home, but she talked with my wife. My Q109 story for WOTF placed in the semifinals --the top 18. ...

Tuesday, December 16, 2008

Who Say's There's Nothing Good On TV Anymore?

To be sure, the majority of television is brain rot. The reality shows, in particular, are mind numbing. Yet, in the past few years, there h...

Tuesday, August 19, 2008

WOTF Volume 24

Thanks to a tip from Sarah L. Edwards's blog, WOTF24 is up on Audible. Check out the link "Download the accompanying PDF to see the...

Friday, July 18, 2008

WOTF 24: The Cover

On Amazon, the cover to Volume 24 has been revealed: http://www.amazon.com/Writers-Future-Ron-Hubbard-Presents/dp/1592123740/ref=sr_1_6?ie=U...

Wednesday, June 25, 2008

Nearfest 08 -> Sunday : Banco del Mutuo Soccorso

This is what it's all about! Symphonic prog at its best. The British might have invented Prog, but the Italians perfected it. Banco'...

Nearfest 08 -> Sunday : echolyn

echolyn's Suffocating The Bloom is one of my favorite albums of all times, one of the best albums of nineties Prog. Brett Kull 's u...

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About Me

Christopher Scott Owens: I'm in my mid-thirties, and grew up in the far West End of Richmond on 8 acres of semi-ruraldom. Without siblings or neighborhood kids to get me in trouble, I became very introverted, but developed my own interests, instead of letting a groupthink of peers develop them for me. In my teens, it was me and my 8-bit C64. Ah, the good old days of Basic 2.0 and 6510 Assembler. Needless to say, being sent to my tiny room wasn't punishment. I scoured books on QM and relativity, though my math wasn't up to par in pursuing physics as a living. After high school, I got into prog: Yes, Genesis, Gentle Giant, ELP, ect. I love any music that is colorful, complex and adventurous. I've always loved SF&F. I spent one summer with Corwin as he rode through shadow, fleeing the storm as Oberon redrew the Pattern. In 2003, I began to try my hand at writing, and found it's harder than it seems. So far, that hasn't deterred me. But maybe it should?

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