Apr 01 2009
Gurion Omega’s Second Review Forum
Please see the comments below.
Our RSS Feed- Please Avoid Having Characters Repeat Each OtherCharacter 1: “Bob and I are going to Vancouver for the summer.” Character 2: “Vancouver?” Character 2 comes across as sort of mentally slow, right? Unless you’re trying to make characters sound slow (or totally disoriented), I would recommend against having them just repeat each other. Whenever a character says something, it should […]
- This Premise Sounds Brilliant: RedshirtsFrom John Scalzi’s Redshirts: Ensign Andrew Dahl has just been assigned to the Universal Union Capital Ship Intrepid, flagship of the Universal Union since the year 2456. It’s a prestige posting, and Andrew is thrilled all the more to be assigned to the ship’s Xenobiology laboratory. Life couldn’t be better…until Andrew begins to pick […]
- Which Tend to Be Better: Superhero Team Movies or Lone Superhero Movies?Since 2000, movies with 2+ superheroes have averaged 59% on Rotten Tomatoes, whereas movies with a lone superhero have averaged 50%. Lone Superheroes Company Average RT Rating Marvel 54 DC 48 Other 43 Overall 50 Superhero Teams Company Average RT Rating Marvel 64 DC 41 Other 58 Overall 59 Below, I listed […]
- How Would You Have Done The Avengers Differently?Is there anything about The Avengers you would have done differently? If so, what? (I wouldn’t recommend reading the comments here until you’ve seen the movie–there will probably be many spoilers). […]
- Guest Authors WantedIf you’re interested in becoming a guest blogger for SN, I’m looking for writing advice for current and/or prospective authors (for example, on some element of writing craft, marketing/sales, promotions/publicity, agents, the publishing industry, or anything else many novelists and/or comic book writers would find helpful). Please send me a 1-2 sentence quer […]
- The Avengers Was SolidI’d give it 3 stars out of 4. The closest comparison that comes to mind is that it’s the movie that Fantastic Four wanted to be when it was growing up (before it got addicted to cocaine and dropped out of school). Some other thoughts: The writing was very fresh and clever. I liked the way […]
- Canadian Superhero Authors WantedTyche Books is looking for Canadian superhero stories between 1000-10,000 words. “We want to see any and all permutations of the superhero genre, but with a uniquely Canadian perspective. Stories must involve a Canadian element — setting, politics, culture, history, characters, etc. Any genre-mashing goes: alternate history, crime, horror, romance, SF, fanta […]
- Please Avoid Having Characters Repeat Each Other
This is it!
This is my second review forum, in which I will ask for advice for my as-yet-to-be-named novel, and some other works. All won’t be definite or final, but this is the generalized summary of it:
When the angels that watched over humanity (the Watchers) became corrupted with temptation, the went to human females and raised children with them. These weren’t any ordinary children, these were Nephilim, great warriors and great threats to mankind. Having none of it, God sent down a great flood to weed out and destroy the angel-human hybrids, and simultaneously sealed away the Watchers.
Thousands of years later, a new circle of Watchers are formed, given orders not to intervene in any human affairs, only Observe, Record, and Report what they saw to Heaven’s higher-ups. One day one of the new Watchers, (insert name here) Observes a murder, and racked with pity for the human victim, intervenes, rescuing the human from certain doom (he does it in human form, before the victim sees). The victim turns out to be sixteen-year-old Dulcina, daughter of the city’s most well known preachers, who vanished two weeks prior under mysterious circumstances (or maybe a mysterious falling out with her family) the slain human is a hitman, sent to silence Dulcina for some reason….
How’s it sound? One potential title is Angelhood, or maybe Angelhood Lost.
I like Angelhood Lost better, but Angelhood is an awkward word.
It sounds like a decent premise. Please let me know when you have a chapter or two ready.
Um…alrighty, will do.