Yesterday I found this YouTube trailer for the 50th Anniversary Edition of A Wrinkle In Time. I love this book — it’s one of the first books that made me really experiment with science fiction in my own writing — and I love that they’re making a huge effort to promote it again. But I
Novels, stories, and poems should not be the only material you draw from to improve as a writer. What about the things you see outside of literature? Just because you are doing something for fun — going out with friends, seeing a movie, shopping, walking around the city — does not mean that you should
Amazon just announced FOUR new e-reader models: – A basic wi-fi device ($79) – A wi-fi and a 3G Kindle Touch ($99 and $149, respectively) – And a whole new tablet product which they have branded the Kindle Fire ($199) Remember when that weird spaceship-esque first Kindle was released? Now, less than four years later,
I sprained my ankle last week. It was eleven o’clock at night. My brain was caught in a tug of war between extreme food coma and the sudden high energy from seeing an old friend, D. Leaving the restaurant, we followed D down the sidewalk to where he had parked. We wanted to look at
I think it can be really interesting to examine video advertisements from a writer’s perspective. Unlike a movie or television episode that is engineered for pure entertainment, commercials are designed around a second purpose: selling you an idea and increasing brand awareness. Entertainment becomes a tool used to make the commercial memorable. A story in
