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Updates from Abigail Falanga, author of fantasy and science fiction. Behind-the-scenes of story creation and writing. Deep philosophical ponderings. Rants about things like Star Trek and Pride and Prejudice. The occasional recipe. A book in installments!
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“Masters of the Universe” and Three Tangential Fantasy Critiques (opens the original)
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This summer, a silly, splashy movie came to the big screen with the winds of 80s-kid nostalgia behind it… only for it to promptly crash and fail. There were many reasons for it. Masters of the Universe isn’t exactly one of those hugely popular franchises (its biggest impact seems to be in silly memes)—it apparently doesn’t even have Transformers levels of gravitas, which is really saying something! Not many casual moviegoers cared, and the 80s-kids whose nostalgia was supposed to buoy the film w
A Rant on Writing Characters (opens the original)
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I have an ongoing project of trying to figure out what in the world is going wrong with stories these days. This is partly a critical effort, as a reader and viewer who enjoys diving into a good book or watching a good movie or show. But I’m also a writer. Stories are my field, my specialty, in some ways my obsession. So, naturally, I’m trying to diagnose a problem so that I can fix or avoid it in my own work, just as I’m calling it out in the media I see around me. Ever since starting this crit
The Captain's Dog (opens the original)
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Happy Independence Day!It’s a landmark birthday for this United States of America, and I could go into a long rant about what makes this country so grand and its founding so important and epic in a Storytelling sense. I recommend this excellent post by for more on that topic. But… my writing mind has been elsewhere this week (brewing up a new book that is going to be very cool), and I haven’t had time wrangle my th
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