A week ago, I went to see a collegiate production of Shakespeare’s Antony and Cleopatra. I know it isn’t groundbreaking blog fodder–especially when there is legit drama happening all over my city this week–but I do like to share things that are relevant to writing. Which this post will be. Eventually. First, some important background information: This production was at
Writing with R Kelly: Read On Prompts
Horrible movies. We’ve all seen them. Some people live for the craptacular*. The stilted dialogue and the horrible CGI make you giddy with glee. You’ve got your heckle down to a well-oiled machine. Hate or love them, bad movies do kinda rock. They rock even harder when you can learn from them. If you’ve followed The Pie for a while,
Writing Lessons from Step Up 3D
This weekend while we were supposed to be ravaged by Hurricane Tropical Storm A Lot of Wind Irene, I spent more time hammering out my latest WIP. I got tired of watching bad 90s television for background noise and decided I would see what entertainment On Demand had for me. Don’t judge The first two movies in the Step Up
Ground Your Reader, or Why Storyboarding is Important
The Room is our generation’s Rocky Horror*. It’s at best a D-List movie with horrible stock footage and acting right out of a CCD production of Best Christmas Pageant Ever. The writing is Nemesis-worthy. Basically, if The Room was being graded for actual artistic merit, it would beyond fail. However! The Room is a great learning experience. Tommy Wiseau’s “masterpiece”
What Follow That Bird Taught Me About the Journey to Publication
“If I just keep on going, everything will turn out fine.” – Big Bird, Follow That Bird I loved this movie growing up. Big Bird is sent off to live with the Dodo family in Illinois and far away from Sesame Street, but he doesn’t like it there. He’s homesick. He takes it upon himself to go back to his