Showing posts with label Learning from Fan Fiction. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Learning from Fan Fiction. Show all posts

Stop the Christie Murder: Endless Night

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Stop the Christie Murder posts presuppose detectives who travel through Christie's books, attempting to prevent murders from happening....

The Heroes Forget in The Dark is Rising Series: How Tedious

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One common variation on the "it was all a dream" trope is when the protagonists forget the fantasy/dangerous world they inhabited...

Stop the Christie Murder: the Most Obvious Person in The Caribbean Mystery

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My prevention detectives in A Caribbean Mystery wouldn't have to do much detection! They would simply need to listen to Major Palgrave....

Stop the Christie Murder: Death on the Nile and Murder in Mesopotamia, Murder & Affairs

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*Spoilers* I reference the ridiculous murder in Death on the Nile here . It is one of the easiest to prevent since all anyone has to do is...

Stop the Christie Murder: Hercule Poirot's Christmas

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*Spoilers*  Hercule Poirot's Christmas was one of the first Christies I read and one of my favorites for many years. I still find the ...

Stop the Christie Murder: The Murder of Roger Ackroyd & Evil Under the Sun

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 *Spoilers* Both mysteries could be stopped by my prevention investigators hanging around where they aren't wanted. In fact, a tremendo...

Stop the Christie Murder: The Mysterious Affair at Styles

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The Eyre Affair by Jasper Fforde allows characters to enter novels and experience life alongside the characters.  I suggest that all writer...

Lessons from Fan Fiction: How Useful Star Trek Is In Creating Satire

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There's Galaxy Quest , of course, though that is part spoof/part tribute.  To be more particular, Star Trek is useful for elucidating cu...

Lessons from Fan Fiction & Star Trek: The Motion Picture: There's Nothing There

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Over the summer, I decided to watch (most) of the original Star Trek films (okay, I skipped VI--sorry, Shatner). I started with The Motion P...
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Lessons From FanFiction: How Lathen's Books Change

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Classic Lathen: domestic financial motive, witty social commentary, hilarious scenes, and Thatcher acts like himself.  I am a fan of Emma La...

The Wild West of Star Trek: The Original Series

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Star Trek: The Original Series is all about adventures with insights: lots and lots of "What ifs". I approve. I confess, I hav...
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Reality Really Is Stranger Than Fiction

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The proper actor for Lord Peter Wimsey This is partly a Lesson from Fan Fiction. But it goes beyond that. In my fan fiction, I've ...

Fan Fiction Lesson: The Usefulness of Nuttiness

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Nanites speaking through Data. One of my Star Trek: TNG fan fiction characters is a member of the Diplomatic Service, Office of First C...

Lessons from Fan Fiction: Closed Versus Open Environments in Sci-Fi

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To relax, I write personal Star Trek fan fiction. I use my own invented characters set within Star Trek: TNG , Star Trek: Voyager , and Star...