Creating Characters Readers Love to Care About The Hardest Trick of Them All Have you ever finished a book and immediately regretted that you were done? That you wish you hadn’t read so fast and could open the pages once more and there would magically be another chapter you didn’t realize was there? An […]
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Pistols and Petticoats: Eight Crime-Fighting Female Protagonists of the Old West
Pistols and Petticoats Eight Crime-Fighting Female Protagonists of the Old West When it comes to crime fighters in the Wild West of yore, I’ll bet you a dollar to a dime the image that most commonly springs to mind is some version of a steely-eyed gent with a Stetson on his head, boots on […]
James Crumley in Print (and Now on Screen?)
James Crumley in Print (and Now on Screen?) The recent rumors that Mel Gibson is looking to adapt the 1983 novel Dancing Bear by James Crumley for television is exciting news. Gibson, the force behind 2016’s Hacksaw Ridge, is in talks with Chinatown (1974) screenwriter Robert Towne and Black Swan (2010) producer Mike Medavoy to bring […]