• Ruby Rose: The Hollow Archetype (The Mind of a Character)

    Ruby Rose: The Hollow Archetype (The Mind of a Character)

    Up to this point, I’ve analyzed characters that I thought were effective and well-written. But you can’t know what is good until you know what is bad. So today, I want to discuss a character that I consider to be so frustratingly written that it hurts. Ruby, the central protagonist of RWBY, is not at all a…

  • You Are a Writer (So Start ACTING Like One): Simple But Life-Changing Advice

    You Are a Writer (So Start ACTING Like One): Simple But Life-Changing Advice

    Written By: Jeff Goins Published By: Tribe Press Release Date: September 2nd, 2014 Pages: 134 Link to Purchase (Amazon) Fun fact: without this book, this blog wouldn’t exist! Which is probably why I love this book so much. This blog gives me a reason to get up in the morning, a fact that has proven extremely helpful…

  • Centaur: Exactly What You’d Expect (Best of the Bestiary)

    Centaur: Exactly What You’d Expect (Best of the Bestiary)

    I hear centaurs make excellent mounts! -Batley Summerfoot, a Halfling adventurer who never read ‘Hooves of Fury’ By Irvil Grayborn of Sundown I have sat here for twenty minutes now, trying to come up with some kind of clever joke to open this review up. But there is no joke to be had here! I…

  • Are Film Adaptations Getting Better?

    Are Film Adaptations Getting Better?

    Of all the mediums in the entertainment industry, film is arguably the single biggest across the world. It is so successful in fact that other mediums are often adapted into film in order to achieve greater success. Out of all of these, books-to-films have been the most successful, though they have certainly had a rough…

  • Is Anime Still Exclusively Japanese?

    Is Anime Still Exclusively Japanese?

    Back in the day, the consensus as to what is and isn’t anime was clear. If it was an animated show or movie produced in Japan, it was anime. If it was made anywhere else, it wasn’t. There were shows that had anime aesthetics, such as ‘Avatar: The Last Airbender’, which have sparked years of…