Character Death Should Be Premeditated

I’m a big fan of fiction and screenplays that kill off major characters mid-stream.  It happened in Breaking Bad.  It happens all the time in The Walking Dead.  The problem is that an amateur writer will kill off characters for the sake of killing them off or for shock value without thinking through the character death and

The Plot Thickens: Sweetening the Plot

I used to fear for the future of humanity in the days when Twilight was all the rage.  Now look at it.  Gone, baby, gone. And good riddance, I suppose.  You know something is passé when it garners a top 10 list of reasons why it is good that it has passed on. However, there are

Hank and Walt: An Allusion to Ahab and Moby Dick

Breaking Bad has finally ended after five seasons and I for one am a little sad.  I missed watching mild mannered Walter White become the dreaded Heisenberg, essentially going from Mr. Chips to Scarface in the matter of a few years time. Read no further if you have not seen it.  Spoilers ahead. I wrote

5 Reasons Why Breaking Bad is Macbeth

Breaking Bad is now in its final death throes, and we will soon all see what happens to Walter White and the rest of his crew, not to mention his tortured family.  Most well written stories reference great literature, but Vince Gilligan has indeed made some obvious references from Shakespeare that are evident throughout the