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A Writer's Journey With Jeff

Friday, July 27, 2001

An important aspect of good writing is that it be logically consistant.The ideas presented have to make some sort of sense with the internal logic.


I saw an example of this not being respected on daytime television.


The show: Port Charles. This has been a popular spin-off from the soap General Hospital.


Yes, it is a soap opera, and they don't have a regular habit of being examples of good writing - but this show has in one summer held a time travel storyline, and currently is running one with vampires. Yes, the Bela Lugosi blood-suckers.


This is the sort of element that schlock-show Days of Our Lives has used for years... but ABC has been building a shared "universe" for GH with All my Children, Loving (years ago; it was cancelled), and One Life to Live. All use a real world setting (not counting the ocassional haunting, or evil twin, or other silly standards)... suddenly, they have a corner of their world where the natural laws no longer apply... as a result, it feels "off".

posted by Jeff at 7:07 PM

Thursday, July 26, 2001

If you're interested, my first review is online at RPG Action.


I've been mostly hard at work on the second issue of my newsletter. I publish it this coming Sunday. As most other publishers do, I've been carefully checking over my facts, spell-checking, tweaking the page format, the layout, etc.


So this is what a book-house publisher can go through.

posted by Jeff at 11:42 PM


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