Tag: movies
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Writing Advice from Twilight’s Melissa Rosenberg
Melissa Rosenberg is the screenwriter of Twilight, New Moon, Eclipse and other vampire movies you’ve never heard of (yeah, right). Lest you think that her lofty position exempts her from getting scathing feedback on her work (it doesn’t) or has granted her a bullet-proof ego (it hasn’t), check out her Golden Rules of Screenwriting. In…
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Jeffrey A. Carver talks to Sci Fi Bookshelf about Sunborn
Jeffrey A. Carver was a 2001 Nebula finalist, and is famed not only as the author of the Star Rigger books and the Chaos Chronicles series, but also for writing the Battlestar Galactica novelization. His latest science fiction novel, Sunborn, has just hit the shelves. He took a break from writing about heady concepts like…
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LOST HEROES
Being a fictional hero is a pretty dangerous occupation. You could get shot at, chased, imprisoned, stranded in the wilderness — and that might be just in the first chapter. When heroes die in a story, it affects us. (Or should, anyway, if the writing is well done.) It reminds us of our own mortality,…
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SOME ASSEMBLY REQUIRED
Somebody asked me recently to recommend a good book about writing fiction. I stopped for a moment and realized that most of the writing books on my shelves are actually aimed at screenwriters, not novelists. Why is that? I love watching movies, sure, but I have no interest in writing one. (Although I did work…
LAURENCE MACNAUGHTON 