Purple Prose [05/25/11] 

  • Realizing Your Characters’ Fears

    What do writers do when we watch movies? Yep, we analyze them. And that’s exactly what I did last weekend when I took my kids to see Rio (loved it, btw).According to one of my favorite writing books, Emotional Structure: Creating the Story Beneath the Plot (which I reviewed a few weeks ago), fear is an important element when creat…

  1. Interview with Zoë Marriott
  2. Review: Zel by Donna Jo Napoli
  3. Guest Post with Heather Dixon, author of Entwined
  4. Why I Always Forgive My Fairy Tales
  5. Review: Sirena by Donna Jo Napoli
  6. Waiting for Superman
  7. SXSW Preview
  8. A word about Mocap 3-D CGI Extravaganzas!!!!
  9. Rango
  10. Better Know A Genre: War Movies, Part II