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Friday’s Five Faves ~ Weekend Views!
Grave Encounters ~ In this horror flick, the stars of a paranormal-investigation TV show spend the night in a derelict psychiatric hospital, hoping to uncover what’s been going bump in the night. As their cameras roll, they find themselves trapped — and hunted. See my review here. The Woman in Black ~ Dispatched by his […]
Aaron Ritchey ~ Trouble with Sagging Middles? There Are No Middles, Grasshopper
This is a fantastic guest post by author Aaron Ritchey! Take it away Aaron! For a long time, every novel I wrote became a dumping ground for cool ideas, and where did I stick these gems of self-indulgence? In the middle. I’d stuff books full of cool little things that didn’t support the story arc or the character […]
Setting to Illustrate Character Mood
A keen eye. Observation. Mood. All of these are used to create vivid character emotions using that very valuable tool we talked about before – setting. One other thing it takes to pull this off is knowing your character as deeply as possible and how she’d relate to the world around her. It’s true that it’d be […]
Movie Review ~ Kraken: Tentacles of the Deep
Title: Kraken: Tentacles of the Deep Director: Tibor Takacs Genre: Horror/Creature Feature Rating: 2 bats I really, really wanted to like this movie. On the surface it has so much going for it that I usually like – a nifty sea creature, diving, watery doom, hidden treasure, nasty bad guys. Unfortunately, it flopped. Despite the fact that they […]
Friday’s Five Favs ~ Fun Weekend Reads!
Dark Desire by Christine Feehan~ They were masters of the darkness, searching through eternity for a mistress of the light . . . The stranger silently summoned her from across the continents, across the seas, whispering of eternal torment, of endless hunger . . . of dark, dangerous desires. And somehow American surgeon Shea O’Halloran could feel his anguish, […]