Sunday, September 01, 2013

The Power of Perseverance

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Yesterday, I read an RWR interview with bestselling author Cindy Dees, the penultimate chapter of "Outliers" by Malcolm Gladstone,...
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Thursday, August 29, 2013

The Lady Vanishes: Showing and Telling

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A couple of weeks ago, PBS aired a new version of THE LADY VANISHES, previously filmed by Alfred Hitchcock. As you may remember, the story c...
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Tuesday, August 27, 2013

Dialogue Part 6 - How to Write Bullshit Dialogue by Jacqueline Lichtenberg

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Dialogue Part 6 - How to Write Bullshit Dialogue  by Jacqueline Lichtenberg Previous parts in the Dialogue Series (yes, we'll get to ...
Thursday, August 22, 2013

Intimate Adventure with Clay and Fire

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I’ve just read one of the best historical fantasies I’ve ever come across, THE GOLEM AND THE JINNI, by Helene Wecker. (Amazingly, it’s the a...
Tuesday, August 20, 2013

Theme-Conflict Integration Part 1 Battle of the Sexes by Jacqueline Lichtenberg

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Theme-Conflict Integration Part 1 Battle of the Sexes by Jacqueline Lichtenberg Buzzing through the June 2013 kerfuffle started by ...
Thursday, August 15, 2013

Killing Characters

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I finally got around to reading THE GAME OF THRONES (and watching the first episode of the TV series). You’ve probably heard the joke that g...
Tuesday, August 13, 2013

Theme-Character Integration Part 4 - Selecting a Setting by Jacqueline Lichtenberg

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Theme-Character Integration Part 4 - Selecting a Setting   by Jacqueline Lichtenberg Below you will find 8 steps to Selecting a Settin...
Thursday, August 08, 2013

Who Is a Fan?

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Recently one of my e-mail lists had a discussion about whether the same person can be both a fan and a scholar of a particular area of fanta...
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Tuesday, August 06, 2013

Theme-Character Integration Part 3 - Why Did Spock Become Popular

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Theme-Character Integration Part 3 - Why Did Spock Become Popular by Jacqueline Lichtenberg Last week, in the context of the critic...
Thursday, August 01, 2013

Human-Animal Hybridization

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Experiments with inserting human genes into animals have, among other astonishing results, produced mice whose brains are 1% human. Here’s a...
Tuesday, July 30, 2013

Theme-Character Integration Part 2 - Fire Up That Love Life

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Theme-Character Integration Part 2 - Fire Up That Love Life by Jacqueline Lichtenberg Part 1 of this skill integration sequence is here...