Writing Elements

  1. Videos on Writing Craft

    Every now and then I run across a video I really like about writing and I try to figure out where on the board or my blog I can post it. So I'm making this thread. Ok wow, I guess that covers it. Here: Three verbs per sentence, and contrast: Spend Five Thousand hours revising your novel??! To become a better writer you must change your life: A lot of these are going to be his videos.
  2. The Cost of Intergalactic Nutrition

    "Luckily up here we only have to stop the vortex machine and introduce a disinfecting agent. I am told they have to divert the flow downstairs during this process and all of our production is for non resale only. For a full 24 hours, he bars that are designated ‘for charity only’; Even then we rarely have enough for local distribution. Regardless of the regulation put down from the top, word always gets out some how. Many of the lower level personnel are from the local slums, some of...
  3. The Stanislavski System and Method Acting

    One of the most important tenets that led to Chris Claremont's success as a writer was the fact that he was trained in acting. I've been trying to find anything online where he talks about what type or style of acting he studied, but so far haven't been able to. But I believe it must be some variation of the famous Stanislavsky System (which in the US has a variation, taught by Lee Strasberg, called Method Acting). This is deeply psycholgical, character-driven stuff. Most of the powerful and...
  4. Logan Analysis

    Scuffed shoes in closeup tell almost the whole story—things are very much 'run down at the heels' for Logan these days, Plus the way he holds his feet and walks, more a pained shuffle than the spirited gait we expect from his earlier appearances. This is not the Logan we’re used to. His hair is all messed up, and he seems to be drunk or half asleep. Plus right here at the very beginning we see one claw won't come out all the way. Going into a fight and he can't get it all the way up. It's...
  5. The Superhero Mega-thread

    I'm doing research now on the Logan and Jessica Jones analyses, and I've read a bit of the book detailing the connection with mythology. I'll use this thread just to talk about general ideas concerning superheroes as I work through all of this. I don't know the origin stories of many superheroes, but the ones I do all began with trauma. Superman and Batman both lost their parents as children (Superman lost his entire planet). At first I thought Spiderman didn't really have much trauma—he...
  6. The Nature of Human Nature

    Since a profound Humanity turned out to be the connecting factor in all of my favorite superhero stories, it only makes sense to move to the next question—what exactly is it that makes us human? It just so happens this morning YouTube dropped both of these videos into my feed:
  7. Netflix Daredevil Analysis—The Dual Self

    The Dual Self At the simplest level a superhero is two different people because they have a secret self (the superhero). They live as an ordinary human being, and also as a crusader for justice who has special abilities. In the eighties, like many aspects of superhero comics, this idea got upgraded. I don’t know where it first happened, but I noticed it in the Tim Burton Batman movies—the idea of Bruce Wayne and Batman being two different people had become more complex and psychological. It...
  8. Word Of The Day

    Today's word of the day is ZEN. I refound my Zen today. I didn't even know I lost it. I was mowing the lawn, giving it a scalp cut, 1st cut of the spring. This is where you cut it at the mower's lowest setting, trim off all the dead so it can grow back green for the spring. I was transfixed atop the riding mower doing a repetitive task, the drone of the engine, gentle breeze in my hair. I'm back in the groove again. A calm & peace came over me, & I was reminded of when I worked as...
  9. Temporary Blindness -True Tales

    SoberDate 8041 A couple nights ago a series of thunderstorms rolled thru our area at nighttime. Around 11pm I got up for a late night snack from the fridge (a cheese stick) when the power went out. I ate my cheese and went back to bed. Around midnight, my wife awoke to use the bathroom and the 1st thing she noticed was it was pitch black, no light from the clock, no nightlight from the bathroom, no light outside from the streetlight. Nothing, just total inky blackness. Now mind you,...
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