Taika Waititi has become quite a big name in the filmmaking industry, with almost all the projects he participates in having a “guarantee seal” that is going to be something good or entertaining at least.
He is one of my two favorite directors/scriptwriters and I would admit that I had watched almost all of his filmography; Hunt For The Wilderpeople, Boy, Thor Ragnarok, and What We Do In the Shadows being the works I hold dearest.
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Who Owns a Story?6/11/2022 Here’s a little behind the scenes for you: the JUVEN Press blog team meets every month to share ideas, updates, and chat about our articles. Often our conversations wander into tangents about books we’re reading, social issues we care about, or hypothetical articles we could write. This, readers, is an article spawned from one of those conversations. This is: Who Owns a Story?
Vita Sackville-West posts a letter from Teheran describing in great detail a game she plays where she ¨[finds and pieces] together all the scattered fragments of Virginia's world.¨ Virginia Woolf states in a two-line letter delivered to the other side of the world only: “Yes yes yes I do like you. I am afraid to write the stronger word.”
Gender in All the Birds in the Sky6/6/2022 First published in 2016, Charlie Jane Anders’ debut novel All the Birds in the Sky presents a perfect marriage of science fiction and fantasy. The book follows two main characters, Patricia and Laurence (not Larry). Both characters embody one of the two genres. Patricia encapsulates fantasy, discovering her magical abilities at a young age through a conversation with a bird. Laurence, a scientific prodigy, represents science fiction, inventing a time machine that allows the user to jump forward in time two seconds.
The depiction of fantasy and science fiction makes for a captivating read. But another fascinating aspect of the novel is the presentation of gender. As a trans woman, Charlie Jane Anders brings a unique perspective to how gender is depicted, providing equal attention and honest descriptions. She then uses this presentation of gender to combat our traditional views of binaries, encouraging us to look beyond the usual presentation. The author’s perspective comes through early on in the novel. The book begins with Patricia and Laurence as middle school outcasts, just learning about their special skills and still navigating their complicated lives. Anders transitioned from male to female, and subtle influences can be found throughout this section of the book. Patricia and her sister, Roberta, both have names derived from traditional masculine names – Patrick and Robert. Their parents originally picked only “boy” names, but switched them to the feminine version. Fanfiction 101: Main Genres6/5/2022 You have read “Fanfiction 101: Where to read and post”, found yourself scrolling across FanFiction.net on a lazy Thursday afternoon and realized that there are all these weird words you have no idea what they mean: gen, slash, pre-slash, etc. Most likely, you have found the main genres of fanfiction.
Like all forms of literature there are more genres that you can count: fix-it fic, coffee shop au, modern au, dark fic, hurt/comfort, etc. However fanfiction can be easily classified into two main categories: Gen (that comes from the word “general'') and Slash (that comes from the slash used to identify romantic pairings in AO3 and others). Gen refers to works that do not focus and/or contains any romantic and/or sexual content. It is also referred to as a category that is “safe for all audiences” however, that is not always the truth. Slash is the opposite, stories that use the label, have two or more characters place in a sexual and/or romantic situation. Hello, my name is Grayson and I’ve been writing for JUVEN Press for more than a year now, wow. On top of over 40 articles, I’ve been writing my own projects for the past ten years and very seriously for the last 2 and a half. In this article, I’m presenting seven lessons learned with a hack so you can try them out yourself. I don’t claim to be the font of wisdom for what you should do or how you should write, but I hope you’ll take away something you can use to write faster, better, and happier.
Disclaimer: This is definitely one of the times a person uses “ode” without having any idea what they are talking about.
I must confess something…I have never finished the draft of a novel. All of my writing has either been short stories, short films, poems or articles. For some reason I can’t do the long form. I think that as a writing community we give too much praise to the Novel ™ leaving other forms of writing behind. It seems as if the long form is the ultimate challenge to win the “writer” title; I mean just look at NaNoWrimo and how it is presented about being all about the highest word count (even if it isn’t). So in this article I am going to do some self-care and sing (write) praises about short stories. Magic lies at the core of many fantasy stories, whether it drives the plot forward or merely builds the world surrounding the characters. Either way, there’s typically some method to the madness of magic. The mages of the story might be born with great powers, or spend decades perfecting their arcane crafts – regardless, there’s an underlying power system defining the rules of magic.
Creating and balancing your own magic power system can be tricky at times. Here’s a few things to keep in mind when making magic a reality in your story. Categories
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