Well, I’ve got a little present for everyone’s Thanksgiving. Last year, I gave you the most heartbreaking part of Blank Mastermind. And now, I’m STARTING TO POST THE SEQUEL. Yeah, hopefully that gives a couple of you something else to be thankful for today. XD ANYWAY. We’ll be all official and give a synopsis first:… Read More The Powers That Be, Part 1: The Winged Woman
So last week we talked about Hornblower’s awesomeness with character development. And now we’re back. Yes, more Hornblower plot rambles. Let’s do this. So. Another thing that the Hornblower show absolutely nails is plot complexity. (Yeah, I know we talked character last week and most everyone is “plot or characters”. But this show nailed both.… Read More Hornblower: The movies that were better than the books & how they did it {Part 2}
Well. Today we’ll be talking about characters and the craft of writing. Also a lot of Horatio Hornblower. Bummer. Everyone knows how much I hate all of those topics. So this is something I’ve had rattling around in my head for a while and hey, look at me, I actually got it down into a… Read More Hornblower: The movies that were better than the books & how they did it {Part 1}
Well, something a little different for Thursday this time. There was this fun project thing going around on the OYAN forum of writing out little movie-trailer things for your books. And it took me a lot of thought, head-banging, and getting over my own melodrama… but I did it too. Of course, this isn’t really… Read More Blank Mastermind: Book Trailer Script
Another book review, whoop! This…. actually has a really complicated plot, so it’s a little hard to review in depth while avoiding spoilers? But hopefully you guys can get a good idea of it even through the vagueness, because I’d hate to spoil it for you. 😛 Here we go! Navigating Early: Book Review… Read More Navigating Early: Book Review
Fiiiinally, I got around to sitting down and writing this. Yay me. 😀 Sure, it’s almost a month after I read the book, but hey. Better late than never. Enjoy my extended rambles, folks. The Lunar Chronicles: Series Review Synopsis: -where I usually put a professional synopsis, but i don’t have one for… Read More The Lunar Chronicles: Series Review
More backstory for Blank Mastermind! And this time we have a theme. Happy sibling stories! Yaaaayy for happy! So, we get to see a little of younger Wolfgang. Seeing brand new baby Eloisa in the first one, then games with Eloisa and Peter in the second. And theeennn a Never Before Seen look at Dallas’s… Read More Blank Mastermind: Backstory Time #3 – Siblings
So, if you’re following my blog, you’ve probably seen the whole villain-with-amnesia story that’s taken over. And I was feeling pretty cool because, really… a villain with amnesia? Nobody’s done that. Pretty cool, right? So original. But, so…. this new book came out recently. And actually…. one of my very favorite authors did an extremely… Read More Restart: Book Review
Yeah, let’s just pretend I’m not a disappearing blog-ghost and have a book review of our family’s latest read-aloud. Lists and cool concepts. We’ll be good. 4 Years Trapped in my Mind Palace: Book Review Synopsis: Diagnosed with a rare form of meningitis, fourteen-year-old Aaron Greenburg is paralyzed from head to toe. Doctors… Read More 4 Years Trapped In My Mind Palace: Book Review
When your work with the oddest writing process ends up being your favorite… there’s obviously a recipe for success that needs to be saved. Because really, Blank Mastermind was the most ridiculous and crazy project I have ever done. I brought the idea along on a short story ideas list in the car and wrote… Read More Blank Mastermind// a recipe for story
writefury 