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6 Major Writing Problems with Avengers: Age of Ultron – Part 2
By Marcy Kennedy (@MarcyKennedy) Welcome back to my mini-series where I’m looking at what we, as writers, can learn from the mistakes made in Avengers: Age of Ultron. If you missed the first installment in this series, I recommend you read it first. Mistake #3 – Too Many Easy Answers and Short Cuts We need(…)
Creating an Author Business Plan: Our Product Plan
By Marcy Kennedy (@MarcyKennedy) We’ve now reached a milestone in writing our author business plan. Last month, we finished our author business plan summary and our Business Operation section. In other words, we’re officially into the body of our author business plan where we need to start laying out practical steps to reach our goals.(…)
6 Major Writing Problems with Avengers: Age of Ultron – Part 1
By Marcy Kennedy (@MarcyKennedy) When Avengers first came out, I saw it twice in theaters and brought the DVD as soon as it was available. Very few movies rate highly enough with me to be watched a second time in theater or to be purchased afterward for repeated home viewing. So I went in to(…)
It’s Okay to Be Angry
By Marcy Kennedy (@MarcyKennedy) Too often we’re made to think that anger is a negative emotion, one we should avoid because it’s weak or shows a lack of self-control. You can see it in The Avengers in the way Dr. Bruce Banner is treated. His character is a personification of anger. If Banner gets angry,(…)
I Miss Old-Fashioned Values
By Marcy Kennedy (@MarcyKennedy) Avengers: Age of Ultron comes to theaters this Friday, and because of that, I thought I’d take a look at some of the lessons hidden in the first movie. A couple of the posts I’m going to share in this Tuesday series are flashbacks (I posted them when the original Avengers(…)
Creating an Author Business Plan: How Will the Business Run?
By Marcy Kennedy (@Marcy Kennedy) In our ongoing quest to write up an author business plan that will guide us in the years to come, we’ve already talked about setting our goals, choosing our stories, and identifying our audience. I think of that as the fun stuff because it feels like it’s closely related to(…)
Unbelievable Real Life: Skeleton Flowers
By Marcy Kennedy (@MarcyKennedy) Welcome back to my unbelievable real life feature where I show you places, animals, and other oddities from our world that look like they stepped right out of the pages of a fantasy novel. Today I wanted to show you the Diphylleia grayi–a plant commonly known as the Skeleton Flower. The name(…)
Why I Hate the Jedi
For those of you who missed it, I’ve been having an…interesting few weeks. You can catch the pertinent details in my post I’m Having One of Those Weeks. Thank you to everyone who sent me kind messages and helped to cheer me up. I can’t tell you how much that meant to me. Unfortunately, since(…)
I’m Having One of Those Weeks
By Marcy Kennedy (@MarcyKennedy) Last week, I had “one of those weeks.” Again. My husband and I both came down with a cold/flu bug that (literally) knocked us off our feet for days. I couldn’t stand up long enough to even cook dinner. Before we were back to full health, one of our cats cut(…)