Tag Archive | stories
Weekend Roundup: March 11-17
Tweet of the Day: Freudian Friday: A Woman’s Right to Know ——- There was a bit of a running theme though out the week, brought to you by my massive disappointment (SPOILERS) of the ending of Mass Effect 3. Yeah, you know, the game I’ve been hyping on this blog on and off oh, I [...]
Weekend Roundup: February 5-11
Tweet of the Day: Thor and Loki (No Notes, Just Gut) ——- Interesting week in story telling. We wondered what made the bad boys bad (if at all), sudden explosive encounters beneath the waves, a elven warrior pushes away a chance to be with his beloved and a worried sister hasten a wedding to save [...]
Prancing Through Genres
Tweet of the Day: Are You Choosing the Right Words for Your Story’s Tone? ——– Okay, maybe not prancing as in prancing around a field of sunflowers in a tutu or…. Nobody said anything about flower fields or tutus until I brought it up. <FACEPALM> Burned myself there pretty good, eh? What I meant [...]
Weekend Roundup: August 13-20
Tweet of the Day: Quid Pro Quo – Hannibal Lecter ——- Interesting week. Started with a tweet about one of my favorite character traits: Intelligence followed by a rebuke of a fellow author and then a return to the weekly serials. Good times! Su: Character Trait- Intelligence. A good trait to have even if it [...]
Weekend Roundup: August 7-13
Tweet of the Day: How Marie Claire improved me as a writer. ——- Weird week, eh? Went a bit of the rails. Sorry about that. I’m sure you miss the regular posts, and as promised they will be back next week. To be honest, I’ve had a bit of a brain fart when it [...]
TV Tropes Monday: Childhood Friend Romance
Tweet of the Day: From “A Continuous Story” by Anonymous ——– This trope comes into play when a couple meets at a prepubescent age (anywhere between 6-11) and create a romantic connection of some kind (even if they think boys/girls are icky). It also requires that the couple either remain in contact with each other [...]
Weekend Roundup: July 31-August 6
Tweet of the Day: Show Don’t Tell ——- Lots of stories this week. In fact four out six days of non stop excitement, giant sea serpents, sarcasms and quite drama moments. What more can you want? Okay, you can want more, but I can only give so much. I’m only one man here. So let’s [...]
Lowest Common Denominator: Character Motivations
Tweet of the Day: Fast and Easy Guide to Writing Characters of the Opposite Gender ——- Art is beauty, or so I read in my Philosophy of Art book in college. And literature, whether great or petite is art, so it follows that fiction is art and therefore beauty. What exactly is beauty? Eye of [...]
TV Tropes Monday: Another Dimension
Tweet of the Day: Book Trailers: Five Things Shteyngart Gets Right ——- Dimensions are very useful things, for a writer: For example…. If you want to zip across a billion space miles in a second, just hop on to the nearest dimension. Or maybe the local kids want a lifetime of adventures in a single [...]
Weekend Roundup: May 1 – 7
Tweet of the Day: Three Places Where You Should Show Not Tell ——– So far so good, 7 days, 7 posts. For those of you just tuning in, this is what the first week of May brought us: Sun- Sunday Tweet: The 2011 WordCount Blogathon. Participants pledge to post every day from May 1st- 31st. [...]
