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Author: harmamae

  • Fantasy Clichés–Avoided!

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    OR, Not Another Prophecy About ‘The One!’ I just ran across this list of tired, overdone clichés in fantasy novels, and decided to post it up here. Since, after all, I didn’t get a proper post out on Thursday… I was SO surprised to see the fantasy I’ve started posting on this blog doesn’t fall into too…

  • Error – Computer Malfunction – Error…

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    My blog is on hiatus this Thursday due to computer repairs… which is sad, because this is the first time I’ve missed my mid-weekly post. I hope to get the computer back soon! (Apparently bulging caps on the motherboard are not good…)

  • Woman-Haters and the Challenge of Unconquerable Males

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    An Unrepentant Old Bachelor? Never!  A romantic subplot is a necessity for almost every book/film/play whatever, but every once in a while you come across a character that just doesn’t get one. You can’t figure out it when he (I’m going to look at male characters for this post) has a magnetizing personality and women…

  • Staying Up to Watch The Royal Wedding

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    So I did it. I decided to stay up to watch the wedding. My exams are finished and I’m off tomorrow, so I thought, why not? Here’s a running commentary of thoughts (will be updated for as long as I stay awake): 12:56: Oh, goodness, they’re displaying some poor sap readying the balcony for William…

  • Are Americans Obligated to Hate Royalty?

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    Curiosity about American Declarations of Non-Interest in the Royal Wedding I already blogged about the Royal wedding last week, and wasn’t planning on mentioning it again, but these past couple days several articles about why Americans shouldn’t watch it have been plastered across the news sites. They go from declaring, “if you get up at…

  • The Royal Wedding – Will We Abolish the Monarchy?

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    Next week Friday is the day Prince William and Kate Middleton are set to tie the knot, and I’m definitely going to watch. (Exams? What exams?) I never paid much attention to the ups and downs of their eight-year relationship, but I know when they showed up on the front page of our newspaper smiling…

  • Lights, Camera – Wait, Where’s the Script?

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    Three Challenges when Screenwriting:   Writers like to experiment. Sometime we try new points of view (this post points out a new trend). Sometimes we try a new genre (see Soldiering Through the Writing World’s post on this). And sometimes we try something completely different – like writing a script for an online video.    That’s…

  • Copyright Woes and Weirdness

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    If you write both fanfiction and original stories, you know there’s a tension between the two – as a fanfic author you want the freedom to use other people’s characters, but as an author you kind of hate the thought that someone out there could take your precious creations and do creepy things with them……

  • Why Polly? Chapter 1 – Meet the Princess

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    UPDATE: Why Polly? was previously available in its entirety here. Stay tuned for an updated release in ebook and print versions–a good way to stay in the loop would be to subscribe! In the meantime, you should check out my other two novellas: Paris in Clichés Alanna’s dream is to sit in a cafe in…

  • Same Old Story

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    OR, Are Original Plots Over-rated? I love Bollywood movies. I’ve only watched one, but they tell me there’s all the same (Apparently these movies tell the same stories over and over – a highly cynical view, I think). But I loved the one I watched – the emotional, over-the-top, tug-at-your-heartstrings cheesiness of it all. Which…