I have to confess, there’s a small part of me that cringes whenever I realize I need another character. Or characters. Especially a character with a name. Because I know, […]
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Perils of the Writer: Villains Made of Straw
One of the easiest traps a writer can fall into is making their villains just be wrong. Especially if your story has some kind of political slant to it. I […]
Read moreWide Sprawling Epic Casts
It’s the nature of sci-fi and fantasy to go big, and big means a cast of “main” characters in the dozens, and hundreds of minor characters. And, as much as […]
Read moreAnalyzing Flawed Arc Structure, Part 2
As I mentioned earlier, I’m analyzing a flawed structure as part of an exercise to improve my own writing, specifically using the third “Xindi Arc” season of Star Trek: Enterprise. […]
Read moreVillains with Clear Motives
This weekend I watched last year’s premaquel* of The Thing. It was… fine. That’s really all I can say about it. It achieved its goals, given that its goal was […]
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