Is this a real trailer for a real film? Cuz we’re dying to see it if that’s so:
See, that’s a pun. “All Superheroes Must Die,” “We’re dying to see it…” Okay, nevermind:
Tag: TVWriter™
Simon & Schuster Opens Self-Publishing Service
Is this really what we think it is? Cuz no matter how you spin it, this looks to us like a big-time Old Media company working like mad to take the “self” out of self-publishing:
by Jason Boog (GalleyCat)
Simon & Schuster has created Archway Publishing to help writers self-publish fiction, nonfiction, business and children’s books.
They will run the new service with help from Author Solutions, the self-publishing company acquired by Pearson for $116 million in July.
What People Mean When They Say “Bad Writing”
There’s a difference between “good writing” and a “good book” or “good script.” Nathan Bransford gets it:
by Nathan Bransford
One thing about my Fifty Shades of Grey post that inspired some mild controversy was my insistence that it’s not that badly written.
Kathy Sees Twilight: Breaking Dawn 2
In which there was a whole lotta this:
and a tremendous amount of this:
LB: Classic Writing Advice Dept. Rule #1
You’ve heard/read this before and will hear/read it again, but did you know that this, the single most important thing you can keep in mind while writing anything, came from a guy who called himself “Q?”
His full name was Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch, editor of, as Wikipedia puts it, “the monumental Oxford Book of English Verse…” among many other things, and if anyone ever knew a thing or two about brevity, Q was the one.
Or, as he put it so famously (and perfectly):