I've seen the term "hack" tossed around in various places, but I've never really put together what the definition of it is, aside from "poor" or...
Thanks, Cogito. That's the kind of things I'm looking for. As for "Where they come from", hrm. That might not work necessarily for say, werewolf...
So I find myself in sort of a bind. I want to write a sort of courtroom drama and/or political thriller. The problem is that I want to take the...
I can understand this in terms of franchise novels, but I was under the impression that a movie novelization pretty much followed the movie script...
Indeed. I think it would actually be very difficult for two people to create an exactly identical story. They likely will share 85-95% overlap,...
When I can beat Grad school back with a stick, I work on my writing. So far, I have had three short stories in a small fan magazine, one story in...
For the first time I really looked at the "Movie Novelization" section of the bookstore. And for the first time I really saw all those "Star Wars"...
Beg pardon for deviating from the dictionary definition. There has not been a con schedule or book that I have seen which has advertised a lecture...
To further elaborate, this is not a writing convention. But a small horror convention. Last year's attendance was 979. The convention is in need...
I've never been to such a panel that you describe. Not at any convention. There's never any moderator. I'm the only one on the panel. This has...
A small niche convention I'm going to attend has no panels on writing, so I volunteered to conduct at least a panel. I have been published (in...
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