How to Get in Your Reader’s Way
When the movie Avatar came out, I went to see it on opening day at a theater that was nearly empty. I predicted in my
When the movie Avatar came out, I went to see it on opening day at a theater that was nearly empty. I predicted in my
My friend James Dashner has his movie The Scorch Trials out this week, and the audiences are loving it overall, but I suspect that if
When the movie Avatar came out, I went to see it and wrote a little review on it. I said then that it transported its
I was asked to read a screenplay over the weekend. It opened with two minutes during which it explained what a common household device was,
Sometimes when I read a story, I find that it’s just “bleh.” It may be easy to understand, easy to follow, but I have a
An ad for a popular screenwriting class recently stated, “A great screenplay starts with character,” so their latest offering was on creating great characters. But
Earlier this week I wrote about some new challenges facing Indie authors and suggested that one solution to them might be to look again at
The Apostle James warned that “A double-minded man is unstable in all his ways.” For characters, being double-minded is a good thing. A “double-minded” person
A story needs to be honest. Now, that isn’t quite the same as saying that a story must be true. Obviously when we are writing
Artist Zaria Forman, source: The Daily Mail I judge stories for the world’s largest fantasy and science fiction writing contest. When I’m judging, the first
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