Category: By Guests

Peggy Bechko on Enhancing Your Writing

From Peggy’s blog:

Three Observations On How to Add Punch In Your Writing – by Peggy Bechko

Okay, first, as writers, we (at least most of us) know we need to flavor our writing with sensations that go beyond sight and sound. We add things like the aroma of chicken grilling, the smell of tangy perfume, the feel of a too-heavy gold chain dragging against the back of a neck, the feel of a chilled breeze ticking up one’s back beneath a jacket or the really sour taste of overdone lemonade to add life to our writing. You know, stuff everyone experiences, maybe notices. read article

Bob Tinsley’s Been Thinking About New Media

…And, frequent TVWriter™ visitor that he is, Bob has a few questions (as well as an opinion or three):

LB and Munchman seem to believe that web series are, if not THE future, one of the major elements of the future of TV (is that term even relevant anymore? More later.) writing. I decided to force Monkey Mind into investigating this phenomenon. read article

Kathy sees Criminal Minds: “Through the Looking Glass” S8:3

Even Shemar’s fine self couldn’t save this mess.

Synopsis. 

I really wanted to write a two word review of this episode: Hated it.

However, it’s unfair (not to mention lazy) not to give a couple of reasons why I wish “Through the Looking Glass” had never happened. So here’s five. read article

Peggy Bechko on “Too Much Work & No Play for Writers”

…Yep, we wanted Peggy Bechko back so badly that we couldn’t wait for her next contribution and swiped this baby right off Peggy’s wonderful blog:

Hey, you, are you working too much?

Yep, you. Yes, I know, you’re working a job and you just have to write so you have to juggle both and that means working…a lot. read article

Anil Sees DREDD 3D

You know, the comic-based film that croaked at the box office. Here’s our Ace Saskatchewan Observer’s short (because he knows how to edit, dammit) take:

It’s half good. read article