Are we talking movies, or books? Because in the books, Ginny was a perfectly fine character. I would have preferred more page-time for her in the...
I avoided the Harry Potter books when they first came out; I think the rabidity of some fans turned me off. I read Goblet of Fire on holidays when...
Disclaimer: Christian Dawkins seems to have gotten more shrill, and moved further away from science and towards ideology as he's progressed....
Just an example to consider. Robert Jordan sprinkled words of a fictional language throughout his series. After slogging through thirteen books,...
At the risk of derailing the thread, Harry Potter does what any good fantasy does with magic - it doesn't make it a deus ex machina. All the...
I think I've just run into too many encounters where it's been abused. The author starts off a dramatic and interesting scene, and then inserts a...
I was talking about vexatious litigation. If you annoy the courts by obviously wasting their time with meritless cases, you're going to get a slap...
It seems the problem isn't that your protagonist is unrealistic; it's that the reader has trouble keeping all parts of her personality in their...
I hate (hate hate hate hate HATE) when a flashback takes you out of the present, when you're eagerly waiting to see what happens next, and jumps...
To some degree. I'm a product of the market; I read a lot, and I read new things a lot. Things that are "trending" in the market at the moment,...
I think the other thing to remember is that readers aren't stupid. You don't need to spell out a whole backstory for them; throw them a couple of...
Disclaimer: I'm not a lawyer, not your lawyer, and this is not legal advice. I'm more familiar with these issues as regards to software, but the...
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