#TeamCap and the big problem with the superhero genre #Arrow #Daredevil #CivilWar #MCU #DC
I recently started watching Arrow on Netflix; everyone on Tumblr seems to think “Olicity” is the greatest OTP since The One True Way or at least Destiel (neither Destiel nor Olicity reaching the heights of OTW obvi) and I wanted to understand (this is also how I ended up watching 9.5 seasons of Supernatural, but that is a story for another time). I also recently, like everyone else with a Netflix…
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Structuring a Series Part IV: Follow-Up
Welcome back to Structuring a Series! This is mostly a follow-up to the rest of the blog series. If you haven’t yet read Parts I, II, or III, or familiarized yourselves with Dan Well’s 7 Point Plot Structure, now’s a good time to do it! This installment is for structuring a series that is not a trilogy. Using this structure is best for series with a serialized structure (or mythology arc)…
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Structuring a Series Part III: Planning a Series from 1 Book
Welcome back to Part III of Structuring a Series! If you haven’t read Parts I and II yet, you might want to. Or at least familiarize yourself with Dan Wells’s 7 Point Plot Structure. (No word on which one is a bigger time commitment.) Ok, so… you want to write a trilogy (or some other type of close-ended series with at least one arc running through the whole thing), BUT you only know what you…
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Is Dumbledore actually evil or is he way more tragic than anyone realized? So I’ve been thinking recently about Harry Potter, and by recently I mean for the past decade and a half. But recently, as “since Thursday, February 11,” I’ve been thinking about a very specific thing in Harry Potter. Over at Tor.Com, Emily Asher-Perrin has a fabulous reread going on (that’s almost over *sob*), and in her…
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Structuring a Series: Part II: Extrapolating Complete Episodes from the Trilogy #writerslife
Welcome back! If you haven’t checked out Part I already, go ahead and do that; we’ll be right here when you get back. Extrapolating Complete Episodes from the Trilogy (more…)
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Structuring a Series: Part I
Last Tuesday, my writing group did a mini-workshop of Dan Wells’s 7 Point Plot Structure, which is awesome and everyone not familiar with it should go check it out (if you don’t have time to watch the whole thing just now, I’ll go over the basics in this post, but I still suggest seeing his presentation for more details). Anyway, Two is trying to plot a trilogy, which got me thinking about how…
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