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Influences: Terry Brooks
I’ve always liked the name Will. William seems stodgy to me, and Bill boring (or, as one William I know once put it, “a bill is a duck’s mouth, NOT a person’s name”), but I do like Will. I put the...
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Television Heroes
I’ve done a list of my favorite literary heroes, but never of favorite tv heroes. Silly me! Lately I’ve been looking at the rather disparate list of characters I love on tv, and trying to figure out...
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The Importance of Story
Heroes, heroism, and what all that entails, is a fairly common theme on this blog. It wasn’t until I read through Diana Wynne Jones’ essay collection, followed by The Wand in the Word, that I started...
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Once Upon a Time, and Good vs Evil
Once Upon a Time is one of my favorite shows (I almost wrote “new” favorite shows, but since it is more than halfway through its second season, I can’t really call it new anymore, can I? I still think...
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Boston
I am thinking, along with much of the rest of the world, about Boston tonight. We still don’t know many details of what’s happened. I can’t bring myself to look at photos (not only because of the stark...
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Character Sketches
By which title I mean, real sketches of my characters. Not written sketches of their personalities, etc. Art. Done by me. Not an artist. I was trying to put together a concept sketch for a potential...
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Truth
I recently read Emma Thompson’s charge against the current generation of film stars, how they don’t seem to believe enough in their work to promote it, and that if one loves what one does enough, one...
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Easter Eggs
“Think how exciting it would be,” went on Tuppence, “if we heard a wild rapping at the door and went to open it and in staggered a dead man.” “If he was dead he couldn’t stagger,” said Tommy...
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