For those of you who don't read every single one of my Facebook posts (it's cool; even my wife doesn't read them), here's a ...

A follow-up to this post . 8) Cardboard people freak me out. 9) Most days, I sit down at the piano to plunk out the Pirates of the Car...

1. There is only one flavor of Pop Tart . 2. Firefly is still on the air. Wash is fine. 3. No one's ever made a live-action version ...

It's been a while since we talked about piracy . I don't have anything new to say on the subject, but I thought we could have a lit...

"Time travel is theoretically impossible, but I wouldn't want to give it up as a plot gimmick." — Isaac Asimov So. Back t...

(Remix) So, you're watching The Incredibles . You get to the part of the climax where the giant robot knocks Violet out and is abou...

Dear Mr. Whedon, Thank you, thank you for the Avengers movie. And thank you for doing everything right. There are so many ways this movie...

Okay, I know I said we weren't supposed to hate on the haters about the whole Rue and racism thing . And I don't intend to hate, but...

Disclaimer: The only query slush I read is on the internet, but there's a lot out here , and I read most of it. So don't knock ...

I am a huge fan of sympathetic and redemptive villains. So my favorite villain of all time is . . . FIRE PRINCE ZUKO Honestly, he ha...

Because you're squishing a whole novel -- which, if adapted scene-for-scene would be about 4-8 hours -- into a tiny, tiny 2-hour box. ...

(Again, because I actually write about pirates, I have to specify that I'm talking about the lame kind of piracy today, not the swashbuc...

So, a little background. The Hunger Games movie came out. In it, Rue was black. Some people were shocked, confused, and even upset . Oth...

I seem to always get stuck in the same places when I'm plotting. I'm good at figuring out my world and my set pieces, who fights who...

Moving out here wasn't easy. There are a lot of things I miss like the ocean, TV shows I can understand, average temperatures below 80 d...

Prequels are not always bad. Just want to throw that out there. But in general, when I hear a new book or movie is a prequel, I'm immedi...

Apparently, Amazon has been wirelessly updating error-ridden books , and it raises the obvious question: Should e-book patching even be a th...

(Remix) While writing your story, you are making certain promises to your reader. Some of those promises are inherent in the genre you...

A trope (in a story sense) is any plot, character, setting, device, or pattern that we recognize as such. It's kind of everything, from ...

Fine, nobody wants to be a geek, except those of us who are already geeks and need a way to feel proud about that (God bless you, Internet,...