Five Conflicts With Weak Turning Points, and How to Fix Them When good conflicts turn bad. March 19, 2022March 17, 2022 by Oren Ashkenazi in Analysis
Episode 370: Good Adaptations Hot Take: Sometimes the movie is better than the book. March 13, 2022March 11, 2022 by Oren Ashkenazi, Chris Winkle, and Diane Fisher
How The Book of Boba Fett Could Have Been Good Fixing a Star Wars train wreck. March 12, 2022March 10, 2022 by Oren Ashkenazi in Analysis
Episode 369: Bad Adaptations More The Hobbit than Lord of The Rings. March 6, 2022March 4, 2022 by Oren Ashkenazi, Chris Winkle, and Wes Matlock
Five Common Weapon Mistakes in Speculative Fiction Most writers aren't weapons experts, but we can still get better at depicting fights. February 26, 2022February 24, 2022 by Oren Ashkenazi in Analysis
Five Stories That Spoil Their Own Mystery No need to speculate on the mystery if the story just tells you! February 12, 2022February 10, 2022 by Oren Ashkenazi in Analysis
Episode 364: The Wheel of Time Show Is it better than the books? Yes, but better how, exactly? January 30, 2022July 30, 2022 by Oren Ashkenazi, Chris Winkle, Wes Matlock, and Avery
Who Wins on Engagement: Buffy, Supernatural, or Teen Wolf? It's an urban fantasy showdown! January 29, 2022September 27, 2022 by Oren Ashkenazi in Analysis
Building Roshar: How Sanderson Bungled Culture The world of The Way of Kings has intriguing storms and bizarre gender roles. January 22, 2022January 20, 2022 by Oren Ashkenazi in Analysis, Worldbuilding
Five Ways Arcane Could Be Better Even a show that blows us out of the water has room to improve. January 15, 2022January 13, 2022 by Oren Ashkenazi in Analysis
Way of Kings Shows Us the Damage Meta Mysteries Can Do Don't make readers puzzle out what the protagonist already knows. January 8, 2022January 10, 2022 by Oren Ashkenazi in Analysis
Five Unnecessary World Additions in Popular Stories It would have been so easy to take these out, and yet here we are. January 1, 2022January 2, 2022 by Oren Ashkenazi in Analysis, Worldbuilding
Five Movies Audiences Loved but Critics Hated Snobby film nerds versus uneducated rabble, round two! December 25, 2021December 23, 2021 by Oren Ashkenazi in Analysis
Lessons From the Vague Writing of The Remnant Chronicles Marketing buzzwords vs the story: the battle begins. December 24, 2021April 6, 2022 by Chris Winkle in Analysis, Writing
Building the Raksura: How Martha Wells Fell Into Toxic Tropes Good intent won't erase the harm of baking bigotry into your worldbuilding. December 18, 2021December 28, 2021 by Oren Ashkenazi in Analysis, Worldbuilding
Which Show Is Most Engaging: Voltron, The Dragon Prince, or She-Ra? Let's find out if these popular cartoons can get more ANTS than Marvel's big hits. December 11, 2021September 27, 2022 by Oren Ashkenazi in Analysis
Building Three Parts Dead: How Gladstone Writes Magic Law Anyone familiar with D&D’s Eberron setting will immediately recognize Alt Coulumb. December 4, 2021December 2, 2021 by Oren Ashkenazi in Analysis, Worldbuilding
Star Trek’s Best Movie Villains Just no clones or alternate timelines, that’s all we ask! November 27, 2021November 25, 2021 by Oren Ashkenazi in Analysis
Star Trek’s Worst Movie Villains “Hi, Christopher, I'm Nero.” November 20, 2021November 18, 2021 by Oren Ashkenazi in Analysis
Why Herbert’s Dune Fails as a Subversion Frank Herbert is not a guy I would go to for political commentary. November 6, 2021May 28, 2022 by Oren Ashkenazi in Analysis, Social Justice
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