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The Death of Sunday Night (and Monday, too)

Posted in Television, tagged Castle, downton abbey, masterpiece theater, mr selfridge, The Good Wife, wallander on 19 May 2016| 3 Comments »

Chairman Meow For the longest time, I was a show killer. Do you love a particular TV show? Well, for years, if I loved it, too, it was doomed because, as soon as I started watching it, as soon as I fell in love with the show, its had maybe a year to live before it got canceled.

I’m serious. It got so bad that I would purposefully avoid a promising new show for an entire year, just to give it a chance to catch on. But even with this strategy, if I started watching in Season Two and loved it, it still had a higher risk for cancellation. (more…)

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Two Early Results

Posted in Culture, Television, tagged building characters, Castle, james spader, Richard Castle, television reviews, the blacklist, Writing on 25 Sep 2013| Leave a Comment »

Monday was a bit of crazy around our house, so we missed the two premieres we were waiting for. To be fair, we were going to miss one of them, anyway, since they were both on at 10PM and I was not staying up until midnite…not on a school night.

But last night, we caught up with both “Castle” and “The Blacklist.”

Warning: there will be some mild spoilers in this post.

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Learning from Others

Posted in Television, Writing, tagged browncoats, Castle, creative writing, editing, Firefly, Frozen Heat, Nathan Fillion, NBC's Castle, Nikki Heat, novel writing, Richard Castle, Writing, writing techniques, writing tips on 02 Nov 2012| Leave a Comment »

I have often said, “Every book has its own lesson to teach, even the bad ones.”

Okay…now you’re looking off to the right and seeing the cover for the latest Richard Castle book and you’re thinking…”Oooh, guess he didn’t like that one.”

Wrong.

I liked it fine. It’s a tie-in, meta-reality, police procedural mystery, and as such, it worked just fine. It’s not high art or lasting literature, but it’s a fun read, and filled with all the little “Castle” and “Firefly” jokes that come from this clever and, dare I say, unique confluence of reality and fiction.

However, it wasn’t perfect, and through its imperfections, I learned something as a writer.

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Books you Need to Read

Unraveling Time	Desert Wind
Ploughman's Son	Ploughman King
The Year the Cloud Fell	The Spirit of Thunder
Shadow of the Storm	The Cry of the Wind
Beneath a Wounded Sky	Cryptogenesis: A Memoir