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  • Media Reviews Re: The Laramie project

    The same theatre company did a 10 year anniversary play last year. They went back to Laramie and interviewed some of the same people. They even got in to see ...

    Dec 20, 2010
  • Fiction Discussion Re: When writing, what is your most difficult challenge?

    TIME! Being in college has done a real number on my writing. In high school I could write for hours, but now I hardly have an hour to do my ...

    Oct 6, 2010
  • Media Reviews Re: Anita Blake (Vampire Hunter)

    I enjoyed these up until after Circus of the Damned/Bloody Bones (where the author divorced her husband and took it out on his insert, Richard), or whenever it was Anita ...

    Oct 6, 2010
  • Media Reviews Re: The Hunger Games

    I couldn't get 30 pages into Twilight before I loathed Bella (and the plot) to the extent that I had to stop reading. Katniss had my attention from page one ...

    Sep 30, 2010
  • Media Reviews Re: The Hunger Games

    While The Hunger Games is somehow compelling in that one does not want to put it down – one could almost liken it to a train wreck in this way ...

    Sep 27, 2010
  • Media Reviews Re: The Hunger Games

    Oh. My. Gods. You mean a story has a premise that sounds a little bit similar to another story?! Come off it. It's like saying "I don't want to read ...

    Sep 27, 2010
  • Media Reviews Re: The Hunger Games

    Prokaryote, it's like apples and okra. Twilight: Chronically depressed teen girl obsesses over equally obsessive, controlling vampiric boy and/or racially profiled werewolf boy. More depression and wh

    Sep 27, 2010
  • Media Reviews Re: The Hunger Games

    This series is a long-needed injection of true girl power and intelligence into young adult fiction, and I freaking love it! :smt003 :smt003 Where other YA heroines are cardboard cut-outs ...

    Sep 27, 2010


The bigger the issue, the smaller you write. Remember that. You don’t write about the horrors of war. No. You write about a kid’s burnt socks lying on the road. You pick the smallest manageable part of the big thing, and you work off the resonance.
— Richard Price