One Easy Way to “Show, Not Tell” in Fiction: Marc Scott Zicree
It’s one of the oldest and hoariest dictums in fiction writing and screenwriting: Show, don’t tell. Screenwriters are better at this than […]
Author: Lee Wallender
Deception, influence, fakes, illusions, themed environments, simulations, secret places, secret infrastructure, imagined places, dreamscapes, movie sets and props, evasions, camouflage, studio backlots, miniatures.
City Guide: Singapore
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Strange “Child Christians” Sect of 19th Century San Francisco
The verse in the Bible, “When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought […]
YouTube’s Video Discovery System is Creepy
As if we needed another example of how technology is creeping into our brains, how about this one: YouTube’s Video Discovery System? […]
Clickbait Warrior Explains: “Guy Spots Mysterious Hole In A Lake, But What It Really Is Shocks Him”
You know these Sponsored Content ads at the bottom of articles that are obviously clickbait trash leading to twenty slides just to […]
Man-Eating Sex Queen of Great Neck, New York, Dorothea Matthews
This English Tudor house, located at 201 Clent Road, Great Neck, New York, may not look like much of a love nest. […]
When a Lowly Writer of Pirate Tales Found His Way
He was old, his wife sick, he had lost his job, and he was drinking too much. It didn’t help that the […]
Before Borderline Bar & Grill Was Charley Brown’s Restaurant, Thousand Oaks
The Borderline Bar & Grill in Thousand Oaks, California, site of the November 7, 2018 shooting of 12 people, has been around […]
Woody Guthrie’s Song “Deportee”: Connecting Names With Bodies
It was a plane crash that killed 32 people, largely Mexican nationals, and spawned Woody Guthrie’s poem that later became the song […]
Capping San Francisco’s Panhandle Freeway: a Plan That Never Happened
The plan made a lot of sense. If you were going to have a freeway running right through San Francisco’s Panhandle, which […]