For the life of me, I will never ever understand the whiny male bitches who get upset at female protagonists in action movies. And I’m not speaking from the point of view of ideology. I’m speaking as a lover of stories, a guy who both produces and consumes them. When Laurie Strode proved the one […]
Originally published on Facebook 1 March 2015. Okay, so David Gerrold did his Facebook essay on writing awards; I guess I’ll do mine. It is impossible to accomplish this and completely avoid self-aggrandizement, so I’ll get that out of the way in the first graf. 1) Just to provide the data, I have been nominated […]
The problem with dramas built around scenes where one character eloquently tells another character off — (and I am guilty of this sin, too; such scenes are all over the Andrea Cort series, which is at least a group of murder mysteries where one brilliant person gets to explain her epiphanies) — is that in […]