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• Please Avoid Having Characters Repeat Each Other
  Character 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: Redshirts
  From 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 Wanted
  If 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 Solid
  I’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 Wanted
  Tyche 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 […]