Tag: movies

A Tale of Three Maxims

ByRachel January 7, 2015 2 Comments
Ever fallen so in love with a book that you could literally see every moment? You smell the smell of each location, feel the temperature of the air, hear the specific pitch of every voice saying every line? People like us should not watch book-to-movies. I recently finished reading Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier to my husband J. I’d read it three times already. I love the story and have vivid...

Thwarted Desires

ByRachel November 28, 2009 3 Comments
When director Steven Spielberg first watched the recent movie hit "Paranormal Activity" (at that time just a low-budget indie film), he found it successfully scary and wrought with frightening tension. He had only one complaint; change the ending. Though the film succeeded in scripting, acting, tension and creativity, the ending alone could have been enough to sink it. Why? Because the original...

Second Book in Trilogy

ByRachel November 3, 2009 0 Comments
Nano has begun, and so has my feverish dash through a first draft of FLYNN Book II. I find writing the second installment in a trilogy much different from writing the first. Authors usually have a clear idea of the story's beginning and end, but the middle--well--that gets kind of muddy. When written well, second installments can be the filling in the proverbial sandwich--every bit as good and...

The "Best Of" Book to Movie List

ByRachel August 27, 2009 9 Comments
A recent flurry of blogging on the subject  "Books vs. movies: which is better?" got me thinking about the whole book-t0-movie phenomenon. I even got in on the debate in a guest-blog over at Cinema Three (movie connaisseur Silver Autumn's witty blog about films and pop-culture). My thoughts on this subject are many. On the one hand, books and movies are such different media that I feel odd...