Is it possible or desirable for a good story to make its audience uncomfortable? Everyone I know has at least one or two things they can’t bear reading about or watching. For some, having to perceive sympathetic characters in certain kinds of physical or mental pain is too much. For…
Three totally easy steps: 1. Do not have children, (a) significant other(s), family, or friends. 2. Do not have a job or hobbies. 3. Put everyone else in a spaceship and send them on a tour of the galaxy at the speed of light so while they experience only a…
Happy long weekend, fellow Canadians! The first three episodes of the lesser-liked modern Sherlock Holmes series are out. So of course I jotted down what I thought, because: Sherlock Holmes.
(But first… happy birthday, A.! You probably don’t want to be associated with this blog entry, but TOO BAD! HAHAHA.) I believe in writing the scenes that serve the story. If I’m too embarrassed to try my hand at a scene that my story needs, then I’m writing the wrong…