Nothing about this isn’t absolutely epic. This was a video I discovered online long ago and was instantly hooked. I’ve since seen them live in concert and admit to being a huge fan. How do I describe their music? Slipknot if they hired Rihanna as their lead singer.
When to listen to this song? Climax buildup, or perhaps during the final battle!
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I was wondering if you could tell me what makes up a good fantasy story?
Thanks,
Sarah.
Ahem…
Hi Sarah,
That is such a subjective… subject… that I’m not sure I can give you a definitive answer, but not for not trying.
So I’m going to give you a few suggestions based on what I’ve seen work effectively.
Anti-Hero. Include an antihero in your story. These are usually very dynamic characters that are really getting a solid following. They aren’t usually bad and they don’t really fall into what we typically consider good. Basically they wind up being good guys because of the situation or narrative.
Show don’t tell. Use metaphor and comparison to describe what characters are seeing, what’s more, keep the descriptions to a minimal. Let the reader put the pieces together or have the characters react to what’s around them instead of just describing it.
FOR THE LOVE OF GOD, DON’T PREACH! This cannot be understated. It is a major turn off for me and 100% of the time causes me to throw the book across the room and demand a refund. If you’re trying to insert a political viewpoint, include it in your writing. Make it situational and show how said stance affects the characters. Having someone break the 4th Wall and go on a preachy soapbox monologue will take readers out of your writing. This is especially damaging in this day and age where politics is literally FORCED into every asset of our lives. See my previous post on this topic.
Make your story interesting, and keep it that way! At the very least, you should establish your hook within the first 3 pages if not the first few lines, and then go through the motions. Just remember to finish strong! A strong, satisfying ending can make or break your book. If your book has an incredible ending, any boring parts that basically feel like filler, will soon be seen as build-up with an awesome pay off, so it works to your advantage on many levels.
If you’re going to focus on one character, make it the villain. There are many ways to do this… you could create an anti-villain instead of an anti-hero or a tragic villain. People love a good villain and I even have stated that a good villain can mean the difference between a good story and a bad story. See my previous post on villains.
Focus more on substance, less on word count. This pretty much speaks for itself.
Make your characters dynamic. Your characters need vices, people need to be able to relate to them. If you make them cookie cutter, they’ll be stale and uninteresting.
Create rules to your universe and STICK TO THEM! If magic exists in your world, set limits on it. Make sure that it’s clearly established what magic can and CANNOT do. The same must be said for other plot devices and character behaviors. God characters and deus ex machinas equals a loss of readership.
So hopefully this helps Sarah. Readers, anything else you feel helps a story? Let her know in the comments.
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Need a good song to listen to when writing either a victory, royalty entering the room, or a new order taking over in the ashes of an oppressive power? Well normally the metal head in me would recommend Dragonforce… literally anything Dragonforce, but today I’m doing something a little different:
If the sheer sound of this doesn’t send chills down your spine, take your pulse. You’re likely dead. Composed by Dennis McCarthy, this theme to Star Trek Generations is unbelievably bombastic and one of the most incredible musical numbers that literally no one remembers. Give it a listen and let me know what you think for today’s recommendation!
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As most of you know, I am very much so a big child care and protection advocate. I’ve spent a lot of time working with children and though I don’t lay that aspect on in my novels (I don’t like preaching at people), I still like to try to raise awareness for different issues where possible.
As the Holiday season comes to a close, I wanted to let everyone know about a few great charities if you’re looking for a good new years resolution or a charity for next Christmas…
This Hospital is an absolutely wonderful organization. Founded in 1962, St. Jude’s is a research Hospital tackling childhood illnesses and diseases in the hopes of finding a cure. One of their big focuses has always been Leukemia, and since the hospital’s inception, the survival rate for acute lymphoblastic leukemia has gone from just 4% in ’62 to over 94% today. That is absolutely amazing.
81% of every dollar donated to the hospital goes directly help people. Roughly half goes to patient care and half goes to research. This is a hospital that is a 503c charity and is one of a few pediatric research organizations in the United States where families never pay for treatments that are not covered by insurance, and families without insurance are never asked to pay.
So if you’ve got a little money to spare and want to give to a cause that continuously helps countless people on a daily basis, this is truly one of the best.
Check out their website above if you’d like to get involved, and click here to donate.
That commercial always warmed my heart around the Holiday season. Yes it’s more of a Christmas organization, but it’s still worth mentioning. This is a charity organization that is run by U.S. Marine Corps Reserve and delivers toys to less fortunate children whose parents otherwise couldn’t afford presents. Over 97% of your donations goes to our mission of providing toys, books, and other gifts to less fortunate children. Less than 3% go to operating costs.
Where to donate? Click here to give money or buy a couple of toys and keep an eye open for places with this logo around the holidays where you can go to drop them off:
I don’t even know where to start with this one… Globally, there are currently 322 locations in 63 various countries. Ronald McDonald Houses act as a place to stay for families with hospitalized children who are receiving treatment and is only accessible to families who reside within a prescribed distance from the treating hospital as determined by the board. Ronald McDonald’s Houses provide over 7,200 bedrooms to families around the world each night, with an estimated value of $700 million in lieu of hotel costs. That doesn’t include the number of family rooms and mobile homes that they also have available!
If that weren’t enough, in 1997, The Ronald McDonald’s Learning Program was formed in Australia to help children who had suffered serious illness and returned to school. The stated mission of the program is to provide educational support to these children who have fallen behind in their education. It’s the only one of its kind in that country.
Where to donate?
Visit pretty much any McDonald’s restaurant around the country. There are drop boxes and donation bins or click here.
This is one that I’ve spoken of before. I worked here for 3+ years right out of college as both a direct care worker and a teacher. It is a wonderful program, especially around New England that offers a safe haven for children that have no home, are no longer capable of living at home, or are taken from broken homes due to abusive or neglectful parents. These kids deserve all the love and care in the world and have barely been given a chance at life.
It is also one of the oldest programs of… well any kind. Originally founded as an orphanage in 1799, The Home today plays a huge role in delivering services to thousands of children and families each year through a system of residential, community-based and prevention programs, direct care services, and advocacy.
Um Jim… Harrington house???
Yes, in case anyone is wondering, the Boston location was dedicated to my grandparents after my family helped secure and renovate the property for the The Home For Little Wanderers. So I guess you could say that child advocacy runs in the family.
Where to donate:
Click Here or if you live in the New England Area, keep an eye open for fundraiser events!
That is a hard image for me to look at without tearing up… I fail each time and yes, I’ll admit to a little bit of emotional blackmail on the part of the charity with that picture, but it is damn effective… especially if you have had a child that was in a position like that (which I have).
This is one of the most famous and most venerable children’s hospitals in the world. They’ve had issues over the years politically, but that is far overshadowed by the immense work that they’ve done. With more than 680,000 square feet of state-of-the-art laboratory space, Children’s is home to the world’s largest research enterprise based at a pediatric medical center. Its discoveries have benefited children and adults since 1869.
Two scientists working at Children’s have won the Nobel Prize and 5 have won the Lasker Award which is given for major contributions to medical science.
It is truly an amazing organization with connections to Dana Farber and Brigham and Women’s hospitals.
I remember when my son was here, never once were we asked to leave the room during his care, we had doctors, nurses, and even a priest come by to ask if we need anything. We were kept in the loop constantly whether on site or not, and still feel we owe a lot to the wonderful care our boy received. Today he is a healthy five-year-old whom, excepting a scar on his stomach, you would never know had been through such a traumatic ordeal.
I often find myself writing a great deal when I’ve either had a lot to drink or right after smoking weed. Do you find either helps or do you know of anything else that helps spark your creativity? You don’t have to openly admit to anything illegal, but I read a while back that some of Stephen King’s best work was done when he was drunk.
Thanks,
Duroz
Oh boy… all right, well Duroz (if that is your real name). 😉
You’re going to be somewhat disappointed. I write sober. Stone cold sober. I’m a half blood Irish, so that pretty much ensures that I’m going to be a social drunk, but I started writing a new chapter in one of my stories when I was completely plastered and… to this day I haven’t been able to finish the book because I can’t figure out for the life of me where I was going with what I wrote.
As for marijuana… I’ve honestly never touched the stuff, so I can’t comment on how it would affect my mind.
Don’t get me wrong, I have no issue with people who do smoke it and I’m happy for those people now that it’s legal… I just find the smell completely offensive. To me, it smells like a combination of skunk spray and dog shit someone stepped in. I’m also worried that one day marijuana will suddenly end up like cigarettes. Like the Surgeon General will come out with a statement, ‘Here’s a disease smoking this causes that we didn’t know about before because we didn’t have the research.’
Anyway, as for anything else… I want to make it clear that I have never and will never do any sort of narcotics, street drugs, or anything that impairs me unless its prescribed by a physician.
Let me be very clear about this, whatever inspiration or wacky writing such drug-induced hazes produce, it comes at a very high price. A VERY high price. So smoke up that weed all you want and have your beers (without keys in reach), just stay away from the harder stuff.
As to your question about anything else that sparks creativity… that’s easy for me:
Strong Emotions and Heavy Metal.
Hope this helps!
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I’ve listened to this song for a long time. I love Edguy. Often I find myself listening just to the end where the music drops off and all we hear are the incredible metal harmony!
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I understand that this may be hard to talk about and if it is too soon, please feel free to skip today’s posting. I won’t blame you.
However, with the initial shock of Carrie’s departure slowly sinking in, Star Wars fans have been wondering in the backs of their minds… Where the heck do we go from here??? How does this change the story that we were supposed to see on the big screen??? (And most importantly) How do we handle such a major character’s death.
Honestly, I wish I had answers for this question. To be painfully blunt, I’d say that it would be infinitely more damaging to the series if we lost her around the time Return of the Jedi started filming. At this point, though still significant, she was hardly center stage in The Force Awakens. So it is possible however difficult to carry on without her.
Lucasfilms and Disney do have a few options ahead of them, but none pose a solid solution that fans will really accept…
Let’s explore them…
Ignore the character completely. The Episode 8 could technically focus more majorly on Rey’s training. In other words, ignore the social political issues going on in the Galaxy between the shattered Republic and the First Order and focus more on the Jedi mythos and rebuilding the order. Then they could mention Leia’s death in passing as time went on.
How could they do this? Perhaps have Luke and Rey travel elsewhere, say beyond the outer rim, or to planets where other Jedi have gone into hiding? (Evidence that other Rogue elements of the Jedi order may still alive both from the Old Republic and Luke’s tutelage.
I don’t like this idea at all. This will leave a lot more questions than answers and honestly, a balance between the war and the Jedi mythos is what made the other movies great. Part of the problem with the prequels… aside from the CGI and Jar Jar problems is that this balance didn’t exist. The Jedi were just there, dealing with the social political issues that arose. There was very little in the way of delving into the Jedi mythos and a substantial amount of story was lost.
Death between films. This is probably the most likely solution that they’ll use. They’ve done it before with other characters when actors have died and/or refused to take part in sequels. I hate this because I’ve always found it to be weak story-telling, but if you really have no other choice, then it’s what you do. That said, I’m not sure the current script can survive losing Leia. If the significant speculation around the script is true, the damaged Republic and thus Leia’s role in it, were going to be fleshed out a lot more, including her locking horns with the current chancellor.
This may be a chance for them to perhaps introduce another Alliance sympathizer to the mix? Perhaps an elderly Mon Mothma could take Leia’s place as fans seem to want her fleshed out more? Or perhaps Leia and Luke’s cousins on the Naberrie side could come in? (Ryoo or Pooja?) I suppose the sky is the limit here…
CGI replacement. Ugh… well… I suppose you could do this, but Star Wars has been trying to shy away from CGI in favor of practical effects, this being reinforced with some of the backlash the CGI Tarkin got. It seems unlikely and really unrealistic. Plus Carrie has a very unique voice .Good luck finding a replacement.
Fill the gap with stock footage from TFA. You’d need a lot of stock footage and you’d also need to make sure that it was spliced in a way as to not make it too recognizable. This seems the most unlikely solution.
Replace her with another actress. This might be possible if we lost her around the time of Return of the Jedi. Sadly we’re not talking about a little-known actor from three movies that came out less than 5 years ago in a series whose face was greatly obscured by long hair and a beard. We’re talking about a 3+ decade institution. NO ONE is going to accept someone else playing Princess Leia/General Organa. Like it or not, Carrie Fisher is Leia and Leia is Carrie Fisher. That character in her present day form can likely never be portrayed again in anything other than animated form. Like it or not, Leia is done.
No matter which way they choose to go, one thing can be absolutely certain, for Star Wars fans, Carrie’s death means that we’ll be getting a much different movie than what we would have gotten and we will be forever wondering what would have been.
Thankfully, Disney and LucasFilm has some of the best writers out there… They can’t replace an endearing presence such as hers, but they may be able to find a way to work around her in a way that doesn’t stretch our suspension of disbelief too much.
In summation, this sucks on so many levels!
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“If my life wasn’t funny, it would just be true… and that is completely unacceptable! Let’s say something happens, right? And from a certain slant, maybe it’s tragic… even a bit shocking, and then time passes, and you go to the funny slant… Now that very same thing can no longer do you any harm.”
-Carrie Fisher
(Shockingly appropriate, huh?)
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Carrie Fisher, the actress, author and screenwriter who brought a rare combination of nerve, grit and hopefulness to her most indelible role, as Princess Leia in the “Star Wars” movie franchise, died on Tuesday morning. She was 60.
A family spokesman, Simon Halls, said Ms. Fisher died at 8:55 a.m. She had a heart attack on a flight from London to Los Angeles on Friday and had been hospitalized in Los Angeles.
This… was unexpected… unbelievably unexpected. She was always a fan-favorite and one of the early strong female role models in film. Her performance in Star Wars alone set her apart from others and made her name one that would be remembered for a very long time.
I personally grew up watching her… everything from Star Wars to Drop Dead Fred to… yes… the damn Jay and Silent Bob Strikes Back movie.
Her death comes at the end of a very hard struggle with drugs, weight, and psychological issues that had plagued Carrie her entire life. I suppose it’s yet another testament to her character that she was able to overcome all of that with a smile and a sense of humor.
Carrie, yours was a life that touched many and you will be missed. Your loss is our loss and will leave an irreparable hole in geek culture for years to come.
I’ve been thinking a lot lately about the election, regressive politics, and the continuous WAVE of people who have asked me to address my own political beliefs, which I have responded to en mas.
And I think filmmaker and (ironically enough) known feminist Joss Whedon put it best:
“I’ve said before, when you declare yourself politically, you destroy yourself artistically… Because suddenly that’s the litmus test for everything you do — for example, in my case, feminism. If you don’t live up to the litmus test of feminism in this one instance, then you’re a misogynist. It circles directly back upon you.”
Truer words for sketchers, painters, writers, sculptors, movie makers, et al, have rarely been spoken.
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I’ve seen a lot of reviews for Rogue One, many of the say it was great, several say ‘not so much.’
Personally, I can understand both sides. This is not a typical Star Wars movie. When we tune in to see Star Wars, we’re usually going in to see a space opera dealing with Jedi, the force, and really character-driven plots. Rogue One was none of those things. It was actually a war movie. Yes, Rogue One was essentially an action-driven Flags of our Fathers, Saving Private Ryan, or Band of Brothers with spaceships, blasters, and significantly less gore.
Personally, I’m on the ‘pro’ side. I loved the movie. It showed the nit and grit of the war that we never really see in the original trilogy. The only times we see the major fighting between the Empire and the Alliance is during the Battles of Hoth and Endor. Yes, I felt that even the Battle of Yavin was a fairly watered-down representation.
I can certainly understand why people may not have liked it as this was way outside what we normally see in Star Wars… however I’d argue a certain level of hypocrisy from this crowd as if you take a look at a lot of the critical blog posts and check their histories, these are the same people that railed against The Force Awakens for being too much like the original trilogy, which is another point that I can argue against, but that’s a post for another day.
I’d actually like to touch on one recurrent theme I see in a lot of the criticisms that surround one aspect of Rogue One… the CGI used to recreate a younger Carrie Fisher, and ‘resurrect’ Peter Cushing. Some have called it ‘plastic-looking,’ fake, and outright unnecessary.
Well… let’s take a look. Here’s the best I could find of the CGI Tarkin. I placed it next to an HD version Peter Cushing himself.
Regrettably, there aren’t many decent images out there and I will admit the one above is really poor quality. Somehow, Disney has so far kept a pretty tight lid on many of these images from coming out. I wasn’t able to find a decent one of Princess Leia as the only one out there is extremely low quality and makes the image they made of her look like the Twilight Baby… although it could also be that somehow if you do a Google image search for CGI Princess Leia, you get way too many images of the Leia slave outfit overwhelming the results page…
(seriously guys, what is it with that fetish!?).
ANYWAY!!!
Honestly, I don’t see an issue with it. I’ve watched Rogue One and I loved it. I thought that the CGI was very well done and will hold up a lot better in the future than the a fore mentioned Twilight Baby or the Episode 2 Yoda.
So why do you think there’s so much hate for it then?
I honestly think that Star Wars fans have a personal bias against CGI and it’s not earned nor unjustified. Cost-effective CGI has replaced much of the practical effects such as the model ships, and Jim Henson puppeteering (something I view as slowly becoming a lost art), and the special effects have suffered as such. Where the original trilogy has held up remarkably well and will continue to do so, the prequels are already starting to age, causing Lucasfilms to re-evaluate them and attempt to update them again.
This problem hasn’t been restricted to prequels though and probably caused even more outrage when they were added into the original trilogy, essentially coating what many view as the ‘Holy Grail’ with fool’s gold. I have to admit that when I first saw the updates, I didn’t mind them much. It had been a while since I watched the Original Trilogy, and seeing it on the big screen really made me appreciate the movies even more. However, having received the 2006 Limited Editions on DVD, I have to say that I better understand the outrage now.
Don’t get me wrong, I am not one of those people who get all upset about the whole ‘Han/Greedo shot first’ crowd.
HOWEVER… the updated editions have severely damaged Return of the Jedi. Of the three movies, I feel like ROTJ took the worst hit. Two of its very iconic songs were replaced, the first of which is now breaking the 4th wall and the second, more well-known one, Yub Nub… well… okay that was composed by John Williams and I’m not going to argue against seeing all of those worlds rising up against the Empire, that was actually kind of cool.
However…
This was one of my favorite things about ROTJ. This was a very bittersweet scene where a fatherly Anakin Skywalker finally got to see both of his kids, together. A close look at his face (BOTTOM IMAGE) shows a man that’s simultaneously overjoyed at seeing them, but that joy is overshadowed by the fact that he never got to watch them grow up and will never get to spend time with them. That is a very powerful scene that is very well done… too bad someone at LucasFilms thought that Sebastian Shaw’s performance wasn’t up to par and replaced it with Hayden Christiansen’s blandness.
Jim, y0u’ve gone off topic!
Right, sorry. So in essence, this is part of the reason why Star Wars fans have a personal bias against CGI to the point where it’s rejected even when it’s good. Their hesitance to accept CGI is perfectly understandable, but in cases like this, is unfounded… at least in my opinion.
But Jim, what about the ethical issues of using the likeliness of someone who has passed on?
Yes, moviepilot published an article recently about the ethical question surrounding ‘resurrecting’ Peter Cushing, and I have to admit to a certain personal bias when discussing this, being someone who uses historical people as characters in my own stories.
“…they brought Peter Cushing back from the dead, and the results are unnatural, unethical, and borderline unholy.” -David Ehrlich
Okay, here we go… Let’s take a look at two key paragraphs from this article…
“The propriety of recreating deceased actors for films is something that definitely needs to be discussed. If you’ve ever looked through family photos or videos, you’ll know that it can be a strange experience to view or watch someone you once knew move and speak, even though you can’t touch them. It must be even stranger, then, to see a loved one do and say things that they never actually did whilst they were alive.
You may argue that this is nitpicking, but let’s consider the issue of consent. Michael Douglas has his youthful avatar in Ant-Man because they had his approval. Cushing’s estate apparently received a credit from the Rogue One team, but we can only speculate whether Cushing himself would have liked being resurrected in such a way onscreen.”
Here’s the thing… they got approval from his estate. How is that any different from me using Mary Jane Kelly in my novels? I don’t know what she was like, I have no idea who she was, I can only guess based on the information I have. Heck, we don’t even have a definitive description of her so mine may we way off!
Or what about Pearl Harbor’s laughable putty-faced Franklin Roosevelt:
Is it because the likeness is too similar in the case of Peter Cushing? Or because Roosevelt was a public official, held to different standards? What is the argument here that one is okay while the other two are not? Is there one?
I’m curious, did anyone contact the Roosevelt estate for this absurdity?
But Jim, don’t you get what this means? As the technology progresses, suddenly we could see John Wayne starring in new movies even though he’s been dead for so long!
Okay *chuckles* look… first of all, that’s already happening:
I don’t think it actually was ever banned as I saw it on TV for quite a while. We also saw it in Forrest Gump:
Where was all this outrage then? All right, on point, even if it does happen, so what? If you have a character that was originally portrayed by one actor, is known by that actor, and you can’t find someone else to replace him or you don’t feel like the audience would accept said person if you did… why wouldn’t you do something like this?
I’m sorry, I don’t see why Peter Cushing’s likeness has come under such fire when we’ve seen so many other public icons be re-enacted using CGI, face putty, makeup, or just lazily found someone who looks somewhat like that person. I don’t see this as a bad thing and I really don’t get the argument that’s propping up about it.
I’m going to end here because I’ve really run aground with this. I can’t make a really cohesive argument against it because I view it as such a non-issue, so please let’s continue this conversation. Leave a comment below and tell me what you think. If I’m way off and this is a serious issue, please tell me why so that I can address said concerns!
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“I don’t know, he just started convulsing. His skin is becoming discolored!”
“Get him into room 2.”
Mica could feel his body slipping away. He tried to scream, but Adramelech would not allow him enough control over his own muscles to do it. He could feel a burning sensation in his chest just under where the crucifix on his neck rested. It felt as though someone had cast the crucifix into a fireplace before placing it around his neck. It had kept Adramelech at bay, but it was now causing him pain.
He had been cursed with the demon for almost a year and it had been eating away at him. He had not been able to eat much in months. The demon had forced him to abuse himself and those around him. He had been forced to alienate the ones he care for the most…
This is one that I’ve spoken of before. I worked here for 3+ years right out of college as both a direct care worker and a teacher. It is a wonderful program, especially around New England that offers a safe haven for children that have no home, are no longer capable of living at home, or are taken from broken homes due to abusive or neglectful parents. These kids deserve all the love and care in the world and have barely been given a chance at life.
(seriously guys, what is it with that fetish!?).
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