Anxiety is good for our creative selves.
We’ve just got to know how to play our cards right:
Month: August 2013
In their Own Writ: Stephen King on Writing
“Any word you have to hunt for in a thesaurus is the wrong word. There are no exceptions to this rule.”
Stephen King
EDITOR’S NOTE by LB: I’m thinking that this should be #1 on anyone’s list of Writing Truisms. (Except when you get to be my age and need a thesaurus to remind you that the word “is”…is. Oy!)Ken Levine on What’s Wrong With the Summer Movies
It’s the writing, stupid. Another reason to love Ken Levine and his dynamite blog:
by Ken Levine
Here’s a Friday Question that warrants an entire post…from Tastes Like Chicken:
Could you comment on this story from Slate.com about why so many Hollywood movies these days (like it never happened in the past, but still …) seem to resemble each other? His argument is that it’s because everybody these days is using the same 15-beat structure from the book “Save the Cat, by Blake Snyder.
More & More Peeps are Hating on “Kindle Worlds”
But let’s be honest, Kurt Vonnegut’s estate is just as much to blame. The late, lamented Kurt-man must be totally entangled in his latest cat’s cradle from turning over and over in his grave.
Dig it (um, that’s a grave joke, see?):
A New DOCTOR WHO 8th Doctor Audio Book
Earlier this month we got all emotional about Paul McGann’s Eighth Doctor and how underused he was, pointing visitors here to the Big Finish Audio site which features a number of his excellently produced adventures. Time now to send you to the latest, officially entitled:
What? You’re still here? Get over to the AudioGo website and, you know, buy it!