Indiana Jones and the Art of Foreshadowing
Indiana: THERE’S A BIG SNAKE IN THE PLANE, JOCK! Jock: Oh, that’s just my pet snake Reggie! Indiana: I HATE SNAKES, JOCK! I HATE ‘EM! Jock: Come on! Show a little backbone, will ya! In the classic movie Raiders of the Lost Ark, after Indiana Jones’s death-defying encounters after...
How to be Convincing
When you think about it, we writers spend an awful lot of time trying to make our stories convincing. On one level we want to convince you that our stories are worth reading and, even better, worth spending good money on or worth borrowing from a library. But it’s...