The house resounds with coughs. Devoting this week to recuperation.  We’ll dive into a great movie next week!

And here’s the last one: I found this gratifying: more than once on the site, Brandon discovers genuine polarized ensembles wandering the ...

After yesterday’s heavier material, let’s look at the gentler side of “Humans of New York”: the kids. Once again, what Stanton does seems...

Humans of New York creator Brandon Stanton recently expanded his focus radically by tagging along on a 50-day UN tour of 10 countries. T...

Why am I spending time on Humans of New York ? (After all, it’s not as if this material isn’t already widely shared on the internet) Bec...

I don’t have time for a long post today, but I think I’ll spend this week looking at lessons that can be drawn from “ Humans of New York ” p...

At last! The final Star Wars post… It’s the word I hate the most in all of fiction: prophesy. Prophesies are the laziest form of lazy w...

An unexpected metaphor family can be a great way to add complexity to a character. It’s fine to simply draw a character’s metaphor famil...

Just a few more Star Wars posts, I promise! There’s a lot to talk about with this movie! I’ve said many time that every character shoul...

Speaking of novelists who read the blog, I’m happy to report that occasional Cockeyed commenter Jonathan Auxier has found a ton of succe...

One last note on the world-building in Star Wars : I pointed out before that stories have to reflect the way the world works , even if the...

Here’s one last tangent I saved up from James Kennedy’s epic Star Wars response, discussing the section where the droids blunder their ...

Alas, Star Wars has never gotten an adequate DVD or Blu release. It seems fairly obvious at this point that Lucas feels humiliated by his...

Over the last three days , we’ve seen James Kennedy’s epic response to my question about Luke’s possible petulance in Star Wars . Here’s...

Here ’ s the rest of novelist James Kennedy ’ s keen analysis of Luke ’ s introduction in Star Wars (He also had a tangent that I snipped ou...