28 Thursday Aug 2014
Posted in Writing Wednesday
Last Week’s WW: Getting in Their Heads
I’ve been reading a few different series of books lately. I’m new to the multiple-books-in-the-same-universe phenomenon. These days, it seems like every book is just one in a series. Sometimes that’s a very good thing. Sometimes, not so much. There are a few rules that I’ve compiled for writing a series. Continue reading
09 Wednesday Apr 2014
Posted in Writing Wednesday
Tags
author, chekhov's gun, how to, how to write, lost, rules, unanswered questions, write, writer
Last Week’s WW: What’s It About?
I loved the show Lost. In my opinion, it was one of the best shows ever written. Well, until last ten minutes or so. But as much as I enjoyed the series, they broke a lot of rules.
They started story lines that abruptly ended for no reason. Like Walt being psychic, the others being after children, the others being wild crazy people, Jack died in the original pilot, Ben was supposed to be a one or so episode character…
But the worst offense they made was introducing so many things and not resolving them. Continue reading
Angela Cavanaugh 