Category Archives: TV

Quick Post on Consistency

Posted on October 19, 2011 by Cora

I had planned a much longer post for today, but I was busy with something else, so here’s a quick link: Dave Farland a.k.a Dave Wolverton has a great post about the importance of consistency in fiction. Found via Passive … Continue reading →

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Salman Rushdie is being controversial again, the Booker Prize shortlist is too readable and a headline from a parallel universe

Posted on October 18, 2011 by Cora

In a lengthy interview with the Israeli newspaper Haaretz Salman Rushdie talked about a lot of things such as the fatwah against him, the persecution of writers worldwide, the Arab Spring, the upcoming film adaption of Midnight’s Children – oh … Continue reading →

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Another genre dust-up and the growing disenchantment with Downton Abbey

Posted on October 10, 2011 by Cora

Yesterday night, I finished the first draft of a short story called Dream Job. Most of the time, I submit new short stories to various magazines first before e-publishing them myself (all but two of my e-books are backlist stories). … Continue reading →

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A sudden temperature drop and a linkdump

Posted on October 9, 2011 by Cora

Once again, our North German weather seems to have skipped an entire season and plunged us from summer right into winter. Last weekend, we had warm and sunny temperatures of 26°C. This weekend, we have rain and daytime temperatures hovering … Continue reading →

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Junkyard and “quality” TV, the irrational fear of repeated words, unfortunately named romance heroes and some awards neepery

Posted on October 5, 2011 by Cora

First of all, I have a new favourite search string, namely “german tv show of trailer park trash people”. I suspect that whoever googled that was looking for the German reality TV show Die Ludolfs – Vier Brüder auf’m Schrottplatz … Continue reading →

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Of crappy spin-offs

Posted on September 22, 2011 by Cora

I have given up on Criminal Minds: Suspect Behavior, when I realized that the sniper in tonight’s episode could have shot every single team member save Garcia and I wouldn’t have cared. How can the spin-off be so mind-bogglingly bad, … Continue reading →

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The Emmy Awards, America is losing its taste for contemporary stories and some writing links

Posted on September 21, 2011 by Cora

So the 2011 Emmys have been awarded on Sunday. Several wins for Mad Men and Downton Abbey, neither of which I like, as I’ve stated before. There have also been wins for Boardwalk Empire, which I haven’t seen, because it … Continue reading →

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Three Anniversaries

Posted on September 9, 2011 by Cora

Exactly fifty years ago today (okay, yesterday, since I didn’t get the post up before midnight), on September 8, 1961, Unternehmen Stardust, the first issue of the German science fiction “Romanheft” Perry Rhodan appeared, in which US-astronaut Perry Rhodan with … Continue reading →

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The dominance of US storytelling modes, the implications for international writers and other links

Posted on September 1, 2011 by Cora

I’m surprisingly wordy today, even though I seem to have caught some kind of bug. Because after the lengthy harassment post, here are some other links too good to pass up:

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No, Criminal Minds, no!

Posted on August 30, 2011 by Cora

So I watched the first episode of the Criminal Minds spin-off Criminal Minds: Suspect Behavior last night along with a fifth season episode of the original. Now I mainly watch crime dramas or police procedurals, as we’re apparently calling them … Continue reading →

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