Love is blind. We all know what this means, but if you read it literally it’s nonsense. Love is an emotion, or maybe a state…
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Ford Prefect, an alien passing for a human in “The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy”, wonders about earthlings’ peculiar “habit of continually stating and repeating…
We all want to write effective fiction. At its most basic, fiction is just words in a row on page. We organize the words into…
Here’s a question: how do successful authors write? Lawrence Bloch, the award-winning mystery author, wondered the same thing. He surveyed authors on the NY Times…
The suspense is terrible. I hope it will last. –Oscar Wilde Tension is the engine that propels your story. Tension is what keeps readers turning…
Some years are better than others for movies. In 1941, for example, both Citizen Kane and The Maltese Falcon were nominated for best picture. For many years, the former…
We’ve all read them. Some stories just grab you by the throat and force you to keep reading. Others kind of meander along, and you…
Folklore is all around us. We swim in it, often without realizing it. To quote Wikipedia, “folklore is the expressive body of culture shared by…
I admit it. I love Pixar movies. Whether it’s Finding Nemo, Toy Story, Wall-E, or any number of other features, I can watch them over…