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 […]
Originally published on Facebook 4 December 2011. Guys, with recent high-profile plagiarism cases on everybody’s mind, I keep receiving emails from new or aspiring writers who want to know how to keep from second-guessing themselves when starting a new story, how to know that their story isn’t “too much like” some other famous piece some […]
Okay, a couple of friends have had this plot point spoiled for them already, and I have wanted to rant about it for a while, so here I go, spoiling: SPECTRE. Yes, the deal is that it tells us that James Bond’s historical arch-enemy Ernst Stavro Blofeld, reintroduced in this film, is actually Bond’s jealous […]
