For some reason, the new edgy seems to be boring the living crap out of the audience. I don’t know when this started, but it seems to be a pattern that emerged somewhere around 2004. Movies and TV shows have found new and interesting ways to slow plots to a crawl, mysteries never seem to resolve, [...]
 
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Last Saturday The Guardian published an article titled ‘Ten Rules for Writing Fiction’ consolidating advice from noted authors such as Elmore Leonard, Margaret Atwood, Helen Dunmore, Richard Ford, and Neil Gaiman. You can read the entire piece here. There’s some great stuff… some you might have heard before, but it’s always fantastic to hear it from [...] World building in science fiction is a big deal. People study for years to learn how to do it well. It’s the key to capturing your audience and creating a stage where you can present your story with some semblance of continuity and believability. It all has to work and work together to transport the audience [...] I’m sure that you’ve all heard about the spat between publisher Macmillan and Amazon over the past week, and it was all about e-book pricing. It seems Macmillian’s deal with the Apple’s new e-book service possibly prompted the whole thing, but to tell you the truth I don’t want to get int the middle of it. [...] Two recent post-apocalyptic films The Road and The Book of Eli show a devastated wasteland covered in dirt, muck, and all other types of grit. I’m not here to discuss the films themselves, but how genre films, whether they be horror or science fiction, portray life after a civilization-ending event. These two films are just some recent [...] Now that the iPad is finally out, the big question is whether it’s good for independent filmmakers at the entry price of $499. I say absolutely! Let’s break it down. I have an iPhone and use it all the time to display video. It’s portable, holds a decent amount of clips, but the biggest problem is that [...] There’s no question that I was a victim of blogger burnout. The web is stuffed with all types of social networking options now like Facebook, MySpace, Twitter, Linkedin, and a million other film specific social sites. It’s just overwhelming and can take away from the real stuff that we need to do everyday like write, make [...] [...] If you were a youngster in the 1970s and a fan of DR. WHO, it was difficult not to have a crush on Elisabeth Sladen. She played Sarah Jane Smith, companion to the 3rd and 4th Doctors — John Pertwee and Tom Baker. Her first spin-off K9 AND COMPANY didn’t make it past the pilot, but [...] |
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