Narrative urgency: when your first sentence makes your reader want the second sentence, and your second sentence makes them want the third, and so on to the end ( Read more... )

I almost blush to admit that I'm enjoying "Grimm", but I'll cop to it (ha ha): a strong parochialism makes me feel I should give second, third, and fourth chances to a show that's not only filmed here in my little town, but set here--which is to say that, unlike Leverage, Grimm goes out of its way to find specifically Portlandy locations, rather ( Read more... )