Everyone knows that romance novels are for women. And so are stories that focus on who’s hopping into whose bed and which couples will end up together. Everyone also knows that those kinds of stories are inferior. Why would anyone who’s not a woman want to watch (ugh!) The Notebook…
So I noticed that for a show I love particularly for its female characters, this list has a large proportion of men. Huh. I do love main characters like Diane and Kalinda and newbies like Robyn and judges like the “in my opinion judge” and the military judge and antagonists…
(But first… happy birthday, Grace! Yaaaaaay!) Almost every how-to writing book you can find advises would-be writers to read extensively. This is sound advice. Reading a lot of what you want to write helps you to understand it viscerally the same way doing lots of math problems is a different…
(Pneumonia update: still coughin’ :P) You may recall that earlier this year, I posted a blog entry on three season premieres. Here’s the follow-up as we hit the holiday break. Slight spoilers, but everything is really vague. Dexter (season 7) Status: stopped watching at 7×06
The weird thing is, normally I’m a subtitle kind of gal. I don’t like listening to TV at high volumes. And some shows, like The Wire, just make a whole lot more sense when I can see names spelled out or hear what mumblers are saying in the background. In fact,…
(But first, Happy Thanksgiving, everyone, and happy birthday, Banana Boy! (Hey, you don’t like your real name used on the Internet, so be grateful I didn’t pick the more embarrassing of your childhood nicknames…))
… but mostly, yeah, they still are. Also, I need to define “jerkwad,” because by the rules of storytelling, pretty much every fictional character in whom I have an interest is a jerkwad to someone. There’s an antagonist, and no matter how good our hero or heroine, sometimes sh*t gets…
I’m writing down my thoughts on one of the major plot developments of the second season of The Good Wife because it was so damn awesome, and if you haven’t watched it or can’t deal with it or think you don’t care, then don’t click the “Read More –>” SPOILERS…
But first: happy Passover! Happy Easter! And also, happy birthday to my cousin Seb! Yaaaaaaaay! So, if you don’t want to read the rest of this entry, here’s the bottom line: I am enjoying The Good Wife SO HARD.