Image via Flickr Creative Commons, courtesy of Frederik Andreasson Horror is in the HOUSE today…and over the weekend for many since, um, HALLOWEEN! So, today I’d like to talk about horror as a genre. Horror gets a bad rap. Most people automatically default to brainless, low-budget slasher movies. People somehow forget that we can thank Read more

Silencers. Yes, today our visiting expert, Piper Bayard from the writing duo Bayard & Holmes is here to do some myth-busting. The movie industry seems to believe one can use a silencer on everything. ***Yet another peeve for many who are even remotely knowledgable about the gun world and how things actually work. I get Read more

Fight scenes are essential when it comes to so many genres, which is one reason that one of my all-time favorite courses I’ve ever taught was Bulletproof Barbie. The second reason that was my favorite class? As an editor and avid reader, nothing can make or break a story—on the page or on the screen—like Read more