The nuts and bolts of good writing. Character, plot, dialogue, structure, voice, and the techniques that turn a draft into something worth reading. Craft advice from a writer with more than 100 books behind him.
Fiction WritingSeptember 15, 2026
Verne gave Neb one job and no interior life. He is on almost every page of the original and never once in a sentence that matters. This version is the correspondent’s private record, and it exists to correct that.
Book ProposalSeptember 15, 2026
Decades of experience only become a readable memoir with structure. How to choose an organizing principle, decide what stays, and shape raw memory into a book someone wants to read.
Fiction WritingSeptember 11, 2026
Every documentary reviewed on this site, ranked by the rating its review carries. Natural history, true crime, sport, surveillance, and the two films that got convictions overturned and a genocide described on camera.
AnimationSeptember 11, 2026
The studio animation canon ranked end to end, from the 1941 Disney features to the DreamWorks era. A complete ranking rather than a greatest list, because the bottom of it matters as much as the top.
Fiction WritingSeptember 11, 2026
Every vampire film reviewed on this site, ranked. Dreyer's dream logic, Herzog remaking Murnau, Bava's gothic, Hammer's decline into sex, and the one film that asks whether there is any such thing as a vampire at all.
Black and WhiteSeptember 11, 2026
Every samurai film reviewed on this site, ranked. Kurosawa, Kobayashi, Gosha and Okamoto, and a genre whose masterpieces are nearly all arguments against the thing they depict.
Fiction WritingSeptember 11, 2026
Every movie musical reviewed on this site, ranked. Astaire and Rogers, Bernstein and Sondheim, two Fosse films about self-destruction, and a De Palma rock opera nobody saw.
Fiction WritingSeptember 11, 2026
Every First World War film reviewed on this site, ranked. The first Best Picture winner, a docudrama cast with the men who lived it, tunnellers under Messines, and the war nobody adapts as often as the one that followed it.
CrimeSeptember 11, 2026
Every courtroom drama reviewed on this site, ranked. Wilder, Preminger, Lumet's descendants, a Scopes trial fictionalised, and a comedy that gets the evidentiary procedure right.
CrimeSeptember 11, 2026
Every vigilante and revenge film reviewed on this site, ranked. Bronson across five films and twenty years, Seagal in his early-nineties peak, the Punisher three separate times, and a genre that is always arguing with itself about whether it approves.
ChristmasSeptember 11, 2026
Every Christmas film reviewed on this site, ranked. Capra and Curtiz, the Berlin musicals, three Shane Black pictures, and the action films that keep being argued about every December.
ComedySeptember 11, 2026
Every satire reviewed on this site, ranked. Brooks, Verhoeven, Altman, Ashby and the Zuckers, and a run of films that turned out to be documentaries.
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