From the monthly archives:

April 2008

Movie Adaptations That Work for Me: Part 3 of 5

April 28, 2008

Tolkien gave us a fully realized world of fantasy. A history-that-might-have been with its own long history, languages, and races. He gave us maps with mountains, seas, and countries so we knew just where our heroes were when we read they rode up to Minas Tirith or rowed across the Long Lake. This immersive world [...]

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Movie Adaptations That Work for Me: Part 2 of 5

April 22, 2008

Last time we talked about the difficulty of adapting the long, intricate storylines of a comic series into a movie. X-Men went on to be a trilogy although if you’re looking for good writing, there’s only two movies. What if you already had a trilogy though? Wouldn’t that be tailor-made to a movie trilogy? What [...]

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Movie Adaptations That Work For Me: Part 1 of 5

April 14, 2008

The book is better than the movie. It’s a common complaint from people who read a lot. It’s often true but you know what? Movies aren’t books. They’re movies. It seems obvious but I think many people just don’t really grasp how different writing a screenplay is from a novel. In fact I think most [...]

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Writing is Dead

April 12, 2008

Alright. I’m about to state the blatantly obvious. Are you ready? Here we go….text-messaging is the death knell of good writing. I’m sure of it. I can honestly say that I have only ever sent one text message in my life and it was on my friend’s phone to another friend as a joke because [...]

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The 21 Steps – Telling stories in Google Maps

April 3, 2008

Saw an amazing little write-up on Cool Hunting about a story that is told online using Google Maps as part of the medium: “The 21 Steps” is a fast-paced, finely-tuned thriller that uses Google Maps to take the reader through the story’s events. Written by British purveyor of spy thrillers, Charles Cumming, the story is [...]

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