Structuring A Series: Part III

Structuring a Series: Part III

Structuring a Series Part III: Planning a Series from 1 Book

Welcome back to Part III of Structuring a Series!  If you haven’t read Parts I and II yet, you might want to.  Or at least familiarize yourself with Dan Wells’s 7 Point Plot Structure. (No word on which one is a bigger time commitment.) Ok, so… you want to write a trilogy (or some other type of close-ended series with at least one arc running through the whole thing), BUT you only know what you…

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Structuring a Series: Part I

Structuring a Series: Part I

Last Tuesday, my writing group did a mini-workshop of Dan Wells’s 7 Point Plot Structure, which is awesome and everyone not familiar with it should go check it out (if you don’t have time to watch the whole thing just now, I’ll go over the basics in this post, but I still suggest seeing his presentation for more details). Anyway, Two is trying to plot a trilogy, which got me thinking about how…

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A Plea for Good Horror Movies

A Plea for Good Horror Movies

Puck and I watch a ridiculous amount of horror movies.  New horror movie out in theaters? We’re there.  Horror movie marathons at my house? It’s on. (more…)

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I have a list of topics that I want to get to on this blog.  But while I love talking about my feelings on pop culture and the creative process and feminism, this is also a personal blog.  So, I’ve been trying to put my thoughts on Baghdad, Beirut, and Paris into words, and it’s left me with a distinct weariness.  I’m going to use “we” a lot in this post; mostly, I am referring to the Western…

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Why I’m Team Cap (and It Really Couldn’t Be Any Other Way)

#TeamCap and the big problem with the superhero genre #Arrow #Daredevil #CivilWar #MCU #DC

I recently started watching Arrow on Netflix; everyone on Tumblr seems to think “Olicity” is the greatest OTP since The One True Way or at least Destiel (neither Destiel nor Olicity reaching the heights of OTW obvi) and I wanted to understand (this is also how I ended up watching 9.5 seasons of Supernatural, but that is a story for another time). I also recently, like everyone else with a Netflix…

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