Archive for March, 2006
A Simple Way to Improve Your Blog
Aside from choosing great titles, there’s another tremendously effective thing you can do for your blog.
Spotlight: Walk Two Moons (Review)
A review of Walk Two Moons by Sharon Creech.
When I first read the first chapter of Walk Two Moons, the Newbery Medal award-winning juvenile novel by Sharon Creech, I didn’t quite realize what I was getting into. You can read it yourself, preview the first chapter at Amazon.com. Now after having read the whole book, [...]
An Interview with Mama Maia
FilmFiler.com has an interview with Maia from saysmom.com. Anyone who’s participated on the writer’s boards will probably recognize her name as that of one of the most generous writing mentors in cyberspace.
-TimK
Using Story in Your Non-Fiction
If you’re blogging or podcasting, writing an essay or giving a speech, you should consider including anecdotes, short interesting or humorous stories. What can anecdotes do for your non-fiction writing? Here are 4 things off the top of my head. Maybe you can think of more.
Anatomy of a Story Game
What are story games, and how do they differ from other games? What about adventure games and interactive fiction? What are some of the issues that arise when writing story games?
This is the first part of two episodes that explain story games and how to write them.
Doctor Who 2005 U.S. Premier
I actually did get to see the new Doctor Who with Chris Eccleston and Billy Piper. Finally, some modern science-fiction I can sink my teeth into! The whole family loved it. I’ve asked Amazon.com to email me when it comes out on DVD so I can be one of the first to get a copy. [...]
Where to Get Character Names
After all my bellyaching about how little character names really matter in the grand scheme of things, here are some of my favorite on-line sources for character names.
A Gilmore-Girls Spec Scene
As you know, I adore Gilmore Girls. Actually, I’m on the verge of creepy fanaticism. So I think I’ll resolve the April-Lorelai thing.
Ender vs. Anakin
Orson Scott Card’s classic award-winning novel Ender’s Game features Ender Wiggin, a six-year old boy genius who saves the world. Ender has superhuman talents that enable him to accomplish great feats, just like Anakin Skywalker from George Lucas’s Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace. But unlike Ender, Anakin Skywalker is more cutesy than heroic [...]
Spotlight: Because of Winn-Dixie (Review)
A review of Because of Winn-Dixie, the film directed by Wayne Wang, based on the novel by Kate DiCamillo.
This is a touching portrait of a little girl’s heart. It’s a film I rented and watched, and then felt I had to watch again. And then I felt like I needed my own copy of the [...]