Well, we saw it…and it wasn’t HORRIBLE…we guess. Ryan and I discuss the new Fantasic Four film and what writers can learn from it. There are many lessons in this podcast from characterization to plot development to sustaining a threatening villain. Fantastic Four had none of these and we break it down for you from a writer’s perspective.
Roger Colby is a novelist and teacher who has taught English for nearly two decades. He is also an avid reader of science fiction who feels, like many other sci-fi readers, that he has read everything. He writes science fiction for the reader who is looking for the next best thing, something to excite them into reading again. This blog is his journey as a writer and his musings about writing. He also edits manuscripts for a fee and is an expert at helping you reach your full potential as a writer.
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I saw it, and all I could think was how bad I felt for the people involved. Strangely enough, I met a close friend of one of the writers and producers who, it seems, got major flack for panning his own film, blaming its failure on creative decisions by others who exercised their rights to have input against his wishes. Complicated stuff. I can’t imagine having, say, an editor whose input or decisions trumped my own. I don’t know that I’d feel comfortable putting my name on the book if I felt those decisions didn’t reflect my own intent. I guess I always look past the work to the person or people behind it, and feel for them (both when it flops and when it goes really well). Often, I’ll do my best to contact those people to connect and either encourage or congratulate. And a surprising amount of the time, they actually reply. Just another way to remember the real people behind all of these ventures.
Well, we saw it…and it wasn’t HORRIBLE…we guess. Ryan and I discuss the new Fantasic Four film and what writers can learn from it. There are many lessons in this podcast from characterization to plot development to sustaining a threatening villain. Fantastic Four had none of these and we break it down for you from a writer’s perspective.
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I saw it, and all I could think was how bad I felt for the people involved. Strangely enough, I met a close friend of one of the writers and producers who, it seems, got major flack for panning his own film, blaming its failure on creative decisions by others who exercised their rights to have input against his wishes. Complicated stuff. I can’t imagine having, say, an editor whose input or decisions trumped my own. I don’t know that I’d feel comfortable putting my name on the book if I felt those decisions didn’t reflect my own intent. I guess I always look past the work to the person or people behind it, and feel for them (both when it flops and when it goes really well). Often, I’ll do my best to contact those people to connect and either encourage or congratulate. And a surprising amount of the time, they actually reply. Just another way to remember the real people behind all of these ventures.