Chapter Nine Now, this post will make a lot more sense if you have read chapter nine. I’ll be vague for those who haven’t read it, but you might actually want to read it before this. Go ahead, I can wait if you haven’t. Now then. Did I just do that? Yes. Yes I did.

Chapter Eleven: Fires in the Night And yes, that is a vague reference to the Genesis song: Land of Confusion. Funny story, I actually have a vague, dreamlike hope of eventually seeing some sort of video being made to that song using either the panels from Tijervyn or scenes from the eventual super awesome HBO [...]

So I have been thinking a lot about these two things. If there are two things that really define any author, it is how the dialogue reads and how narrative reads. One can even possibly argue that the voice (narrative read) is just another character’s dialogue, that of the narrator to us. This has led [...]

I have this nagging sense that I’ve kibitz about this before, but a quick glance over my saved blogs (dear lord they are starting to pile up) say I haven’t, so here I go.  Authorial Fait: when the author makes something happen because they just wanted it to happen, not because it makes plot or [...]

Forewarning: Spoilers for Lost Season 2 here-in. I forgot to grouse about one movie idiom that I really dislike, and it happens in horror quite a bit, but it also happens all over the place.  That is the death of the romantic interest to propel plot and drama.  Now, I don’t hate it completely.  It [...]