The debate on what constitutes a “strong female character”, whether having “strong female leads” or “feminism” is tanking “woke” films these past few years, is ongoing. There's accusations of toxicity on both sides. Misogyny, misandry, wokeness and brokeness, all of these terms and hot takes are fired and take ...

Photo: “Hawk and Flo, Part 1: Ice Cream Truck of Doom, ‘Rebirth Page 19’”. Created by HawkandFloAdventures. (30 July 2023)

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Hawk and Flo Part One: Ice Cream Truck of Doom by HawkandFloAdventures

HawkandFloAdventures writes:

“Hi I'm on track for 700 pages I was wondering if I could get ...

The idea of “sin” is a prevalent one in horror stories. In terrifying tales, the monstrous against the human also explores good vs. evil.

There is often a “sin” perpetrated by horror Protagonists. The classic Psycho begins with Marion Crane stealing money from her job. Her intentions are understandable, maybe ...

Probing these mists for a console ancient
Caught in its patience I unsealed the gate
Prying those depths for a future latent
Omens so blatant I entered the gate
Pending the screams for a horror dormant
Leaving from torment I buried that gate


NaaN (Now, always and Never)

Photo: “Beware of the Glob 13”. Hawk and Flo Adventures Part One: Ice Cream Truck of Doom. Created by HawkandFloAdventures. (May 2023).

Two weekends ago, HawkandFloAdventures wrote in to kindly ask, “I'm nearing 600 pages If it's alright may I please have a milestone announcement in 2 weeks ...

Catch a glimpse of a typical day shoveling on the farm. The single male Rooster crows, “Cock-a-Da. Cock-a-roo.” Sunlight erupts from behind the barn. Set in the non-fictional Canadian province, New Brunswick, just North of Nova Scotia, and sharing a border with New England, in the Northeastern United States. One ...

So for us Orthodox Christians it's Good Friday today and it'll be Resurrection Day (Good Saturday) by the time you're reading this. In the neighborhood where I live, a new (boisterous and with many members) family has moved in, who brought a live rooster a few days ...

my webcomic, Typical Strange, uses many fake films in its video store setting

A few years ago I spotted a book in the second hand store - one I'd read as a kid. I bought it and reread it. It was definitely more suited to the younger me - it was ...

Photo: “Pile of Crayola Colors of the World Crayons and Coloured Pencils.” (April 2023)

An unplanned visit to the grocery store led me down the food-less office supply aisle where clearance stickers covered half the supplies hung on wired metal racks. A thought ran through my head to justify the ...

Conflict!

It's the essential building block of drama. You don't have a story without the basics of “someone wants something, and something's in the way of getting it.”

Screenwriting books - books I really love and have given me a lot - will often say that amping up the ...