Tag Archive | entertainment
Lessons from the Aether: Man of Steel and Character Motivations
Tweet of the Day: Royalty in Space: Science Fiction Princes and Princesses ——- As much as I love movies, I rarely go to theaters to see them any more. Maybe I’m suffering from rather limited bout of social anxiety or I hate people narrating the movie for their friends while watching the same movie, but […]
Sunday Treat: Terry Jones Pythons the Middle Ages
Tweet of the Day: Harry Potter and the Monastery of Mystery: A Big Al Story ——– I haven’t done one of these in ages, so I decided to fill a pleasant Sunday morning with a video from none other than Terry Jones. the first in a series produced by the BBC that tackles the […]
Space for Rent: It’s Just A….
Tweet of the Day: Sword & Laser Podcast – #125 – On the Wagon ——- …a movie, …a book, …a game. It’s just a …thing and that’s all there is, or so the speaker would like you to think. But why? Why must we forgo an analysis of a give piece of art? The first […]
Lessons from the Aether: Soap Operas
Tweet of the Day: 5 Signs You Might Be a Windbag ——- Or a Guide to How Not To Write…Anything! The long time reader of this blog may have detected a certain…disdain for soap operas. The reasons for the disdain match those for why you should never write like a soap opera: Shallow Characters: If […]
Weekend Roundup: March 10-16
Tweet of the Day: Joseph Campbell and the Power of Myth ——- This week began and ended with games. Long time readers of this blog know my passion for good video games runs deep. They also know that you can learn a lot about creating a good narrative from the way video games are put […]
Space for Rent: Not all things digital are the same
——- A week or so ago I came across a blog post that made some very facile comparisons between e-book piracy and other forms of digital piracy. But like many anti-piracy advocates the argument boiled down to, “Piracy is bad, ummkay!” while completely ignoring the fact that the only thing these different forms of […]
Space for Rent: The Fiction of the White Interpreter
Tweet of the Day: Oscar loves a white savior ——- Reading the article I linked to above (the Tweet of the Day) got me thinking that a) this is a writing blog and b) that not all tropes are good. That means that I should, once in awhile, write post related to writing in general. […]
Lessons from the Aether: Sherlock and the Ubernmench
Tweet of the Day: My Kingdom for a Parking Lot (or Car Park) ——- For all the talk about rooting for the underdog or siding with the little guy, we read stories to experience vicariously the deeds of those better than ourselves whether they are stronger, faster, richer, more famous or any other superlative that […]
Lessons from the Aether: Law & Order and Why Following a Formula Is Not a Bad Thing
Tweet of the Day: Writing Excuses 8.2: Hero’s Journey ——- To call something “formulaic” is to hang a sign that says things like: unimaginative, repetitive, and dull among other things. Yet Hollywood thrives on formulas, as does many literary genres. Take the show Law & Order as an example. It spawn at least five spin offs (all of them off the […]
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