Showing posts with label Harry Potter. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Harry Potter. Show all posts
Thursday, June 05, 2025

Graduations

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Earlier this week we attended the high-school graduation of one of our grandsons. (Summa cum laude!) Recently I read a joke somewhere to the...
Thursday, April 10, 2025

Villainous Motivations

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In a presentation on Dark Lords at this year's ICFA, the author of the paper raised the question of whether villains need a complex back...
Thursday, June 06, 2024

Leave Them Wanting More?

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Here's an essay by Cory Doctorow about fiction, movies, and games giving audiences what they need instead of what they want, or think th...
Thursday, October 27, 2022

Is Time Travel Impossible?

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A character in C. S. Lewis's posthumously published novel fragment THE DARK TOWER asserts it is. (Granted, one faction within Lewis scho...
Tuesday, March 27, 2018

Theme-Conflict Integration Part 3 Battle of the Generations

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Theme-Conflict Integration Part 3 Battle of the Generations by Jacqueline Lichtenberg Previous parts in this series: http://al...
Tuesday, June 26, 2012

Finding The Story Opening Part 2: Avatar And The Day The Earth Stood Still

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Two blockbuster classic SF films based on an essential child-fantasy (rescue me from this oppressive life; or "Get Me Out Of Here"...
Tuesday, October 04, 2011

Believing in Happily Ever After: Part 1, Stephen King on Potter VS Twilight

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 In July, I was invited to Google+ by one of the Chat moderators on Twitter who runs #Litchat (which I recommend to readers and writers -- f...
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Tuesday, March 03, 2009

Paranormal Romance

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This post leads up to a workshop exercise in World Building. A couple weeks ago, Linnea Sinclair asked on the Paranormal Romance forum at go...
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Tuesday, July 24, 2007

Is Harry Potter an Alien?

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Whoo-hoo, the boy wonder is grown up! I saw an interview with the actor on TV the other day -- in his real persona, he's scrumptious. Te...
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Tuesday, July 17, 2007

Silly Season

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Folks: Well, here we are in the "silly season" -- and I just saw on TV a whole long feature on the "news" about UFO'...
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