Recent content by James Marinero

Although it does seem that 'e' is in short supply.

Apologies if I've already posted this on another thread, but I was reading @CageSage 's post about the Mage and the Blues Brothers (yes, another of my favourites too), and this piece came to mind. It's more granular than the story arc, kind of 'under the hood'. Whilst it's in the screenplay...

Welcome! Your book sounds fascinating.

Welcom @Kate M ! No biting here!

@RK Capps It certainly makes you think about the process. I liked the story from Camus/ @MattScho . I think that writing is like a curve which tends to a limit, the trick is knowing when the deltas of improvement are not worth the extra effort. After all we all have new books to write and a...

Interesting opinion about disruption Publishers Weekly

Today I finished 'Prague Fatale' by Philip Kerr. Superb! Set in the period 1939-1942 in Berlin and Prague, it's a detective story woven in to the life and death of Reinhard Heydrich, one of the architects of the Holocaust. The plot is set during Heydrich's period as the Reichsprotektor of...

Welcome Kev (hope that's OK). Sounds like you have plenty of experience to contribute here.

An old one now, apologies, but I'm still catching up. I love Woody Allen's work and this was a treat despite being billed as a romcom. A slow start but then I was drawn in. Owen Wilson had an Oscar nomination for this. What I found uncanny was the way his mannerisms reminded me of Allen's own...

Title: Midnight in Paris (2011) Genre: Fantasy, Comedy, Romance Director: Woody Allen Cast: Owen Wilson, Rachel McAdams, Kurt Fuller, Mimi Kennedy, Michael Sheen, Nina Arianda, Carla Bruni, Maurice Sonnenberg, Thierry Hancisse, Guillaume Gouix, Audrey Fleurot, Marie-Sohna Conde, Yves...

Sounds a bit like marriage to me...though I never cheated

Kill your darlings. That took me a few books to understand.

Life lessons to come...Eeks! Welcome Lazybones! Books about dreams...Cloud Atlas?