Adam Oster, Adventure Novelist

Life has been obnoxiously busy over the past few weeks. Between waiting for grades, work, kids, and one big thing that I can’t quite announce yet, on top of the normal life stuff, I feel like I’ve been running from place to place non-stop, and even today, while I write this post, I’m sitting here…

Alright, so, I promise this school-related talk stuff is going to end soon…ish. But here’s the thing. I’m sitting here with all my classwork done, just anxiously waiting to hear back on grades. And I had made a promise to myself that once I finished my schoolwork, I would take a long nap. However…things have…

As a writer, one of the things you probably hear the most is about how you, as a writer, need to find your voice. And as a writer, one of the things you’ve probably asked yourself the most is, “What the heck does that mean?” This very concept is quite confusing. And I have struggled…

By the time you read this, I’ll have been done with my coursework for over a week. I considered putting this post up immediately, but I feel like I might need this to mellow a bit before I actually put it out there for everyone to read. Because, today, which happens to be February 16,…

This past weekend, my family and I did our second-ever escape room. Do you know about escape rooms? Those weird little things where they lock you in a room and you have to solve a bunch of puzzles to find the key so you can actually get back out? We did one in the midst…

I don’t want to get all hipster-braggy on you here, but I was one of the earliest adopters to social media. Like, I just so happened to be going to college for a semester at the exact same time that Facebook launched at the local university, back when you could only get on the site…

There’s been a bit of talk recently, mostly from filmmakers who don’t make superhero movies who would appear to be a bit jealous by the amount of money superhero movies make, about how superhero movies are ruining the film industry. Notoriously, Martin Scorsese called them not-films, theme park rides, and candy. Recently Steven Soderberg talked…

So, as you may be aware, my wife and one of my children came down with the novel coronavirus that we’ve all been hearing about for the past two years. You may also be aware that I’ve long held the thought that I’d rather just get sick with it and get it done with so…

Tom Cruise has been a pretty integral actor for most of my life. His first film credit actually happened the same year I was born, and it would only be a couple years later when he would strike it hard with films like Risky Business. The following years would give us iconic films like Rain…

As I write this, I’m sitting here with only two assignments left to complete. I do have another 4 assignments that I need to revise, but those really shouldn’t take any effort, but even counting those, I have 6 total assignments that I need to get done before I can consider myself complete with school.…