And for pity’s sake, don’t quote their trolling posts when you respond in a thread. You make my job that much harder when I go through and have to clean up the troll poop because it does no good for me to get rid of the troll po...
Writer-director Douglas McGrath chats about “shrinking” Dickens’ classic, Nicholas Nickleby, into a Golden Globe nominee. Before my interview with Douglas McGrath, who wrote and directed Nicholas Nickleby, I took a quick look at the p...
There is this prism through which everything can be explained in Manichean terms It’s like a juicy poison chalice which comes in a novelty mug and for one additional pound some super boost matcha powder before those health benefits kick i...
(~8 Minute Read) Writers, whether for scripts or other fiction, make a lot of mistakes with depicting military members. Sometimes to the point that it gets so obnoxiously cliché or romanticized that it is hard to watch or read. We’ve all...
(~8 Minute Read) Writers, whether for scripts or other fiction, make a lot of mistakes with depicting military members. Sometimes to the point that it gets so obnoxiously cliché or romanticized that it is hard to watch or read. We’ve all...
Stories and bad words. Is it right to insert if the context requires it?Or is it better to replace them? I’m writing a short story, set in a prison.The use of bad words, I find, “Normal”. I give an example:Lunch time, one ...
Originally Posted by luckyscars I hear this all the time — not usually, it must be said, from people who are otherwise sensible. I think it’s something that people generally use to provoke reactions rather than discussions. What...
And as someone who is familiar with Tokyo, I second @Scarlet-MagicianX26. Japan in particular. I mean, yes, you can see the layout of the area from Google Maps. But did you know, for example, that many shops in Japan don’t have street...
How do you start a story in media res, but ensure that your audience is fully invested in that character? It’s a bit of a trick. My recent short story attempts that. A young woman is brought out of cryogenic stasis at the same time a seri...
I don’t think that’s a good question, because to tell a story is different from to write a story, and writing is directly dependent upon how early your country’s educational system starts teaching literacy. In the UK they ...