Tim Powers did the whole fantasy/pirate thing very well in 'On Stranger Tides', setting it in the real world but in fantastic locations. If you...
You need to read some fantasy that's been recently released to understand what the publishers think is selling, where the scene is. I haven't...
Paul Auster - In The Country Of Last Things
My favourite play, I was lucky enough to see it with Simon Callow, Patrick Stewart and the imperious Ian McKellen!!! Awesome. It's an...
Thanks. I guess there's still a theoretical tension, just not in relation to your particular ideals.
The banking system has taken tremendous risks with our savings and investments, secures its fund managers enormous bonuses. When it goes wrong,...
Alan Moore of course didn't just create the OP Dr.Manhattan, he put a typically 'mature' spin on Miracleman, really a critique of the superhero,...
It sounds like you have the 'action sequence' sorted in your head but nothing else. For me it's everything but the action sequences that lend...
I have that problem but also the problem of getting distracted by amazing virtuosity. Reading John Banville's 'Ghosts' at the moment is painful...
Reading is as important to writing as writing is, providing you read widely enough. Go to the Guardian newspaper website, search for '1000 books...
That's not flowery, that's amazing :) But I take 'flowery' to be pejorative anyway.
To paraphrase George Orwell, break any rule if it will improve your work. The challenge of course is knowing that it has improved. I'm with...
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