If you can tell me the actual works of fiction in which all of these appear, you win the Internet! No Google! This is old news, but apart from the seven books of the Harry Potter series, one can buy J. K. Rowling’s versions of certain among Harry’s textbooks and…
One of the main rules of writing a mystery, present in almost every how-to book you’ll come across, is this: the reader must feel that he could’ve solved the mystery along with the protagonist, if he were as smart as she is. Now, this is very similar to another potential…
But first: apparently, I have an Internet kindred spirit on Cracked! OK, so what do I mean by a “story about storytelling”? There are lots of stories in which characters tell stories to one another, from the trivial type like, “Let me fill you in on the entire plot up…
The “lies” part is that these are micro-reviews, because my ability to summarize has got sloppy: I may (gasp!) go into four sentences at times.
Around this time last year, I made a list of 10 things I’d learned during 2009, and, at the end, I appended a list of 10 things I hoped to learn during 2010. Well, 2010’s been and gone, which means it’s time to see how I did. As a wise…