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GLEE Contest at SmartPop
In case anyone else loves the TV show Glee, HERE is a chance to win copies of an upcoming anthology of essays about the show by sharing your own, real-life account of what Glee has meant to you as a fan.
Along with $50, you can win 5 copies of the book once it's published next Fall. I'll have an essay in it, and I only get 2 copies :-)
Happy writing.
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ESSAY: TV Romance - The Way, if Writers Will
Part Three of a 3-part series.
(Previously….
Part one of this three-part series, "TV Romance," looked at the how romance on television changed with the introduction of serial elements, as well as the myth! myth! it's a myth! of the Moonlighting Curse. Myths in television-especially the symbolic underpinnings powering the One True Pairing-are great. ( Read more... ) -
The Paradox
(A seeming contradiction which is nevertheless somehow true)
Hardly anyone will notice that I've gone quiet on Paradox: The Sheldon/Penny fan community. I'm not that important, and I haven't been there that long. I do plan to post "happy faces" of encouragement to those people whose work I greatly admire, and let them know more about my love for ( Read more... ) -
ESSAY: My RSVP to Anonymemes--Just Sayin' No
Did you know this was a thing? I didn't know it was a thing.
Anonymemes.
Blogger X creates a journal and invites others to post-anonymously-about a shared Internet community. Emboldened by virtual invisibility, participants complain vehemently about everything from over-eager moderators to which fics get the most comments authors are attention ( Read more... ) -
ESSAY: TV Romance - How Writers Won't or Will
(Second of a 3-Part Series on Television Romance).
See Part 1--in which we discuss the way a serial element changed prime-time television romance forever, and the illusory comfort of blaming a "Moonlighting Curse"-- HERE
So Wait... There IS A Curse?
No. A problem? Yes. But the only "curse" for television characters who advance their relationship ( Read more... ) -
ESSAY: TV Romance - Why Writers Will or Won't
(First of a 3-part Series on Television Romance)
Almost every other essay I write starts to skid into how romance on television landed where it currently rests: 'Shipping, OTP's, fears of a "Moonlighting Curse," and all.
It's time I just created a separate piece to which I can, in the future, simply link.
I mean-romance!
And… television!
Behold my ( Read more... ) -
ESSAY: Copper Trophy - Nerds, Hotties, & Leagues
Television Without Pity posted a photo list of the top 10 best "Nerd Loves Hottie" movies, inspired by the upcoming movie with the annoying title: She's Out of My League.
With the exception of Wall-E, and the marginal exception of Say Anything *, these movies feature high-school characters. I Love You Beth Cooper. Some Kind of Wonderful. All of ( Read more... ) -
ESSAY: "I Like Smart" - White Collar and the Courtship of the Intelligent Viewer
Written for ficchica for her winning donation in the "Help_Chile" auction on LiveJournal.
Back in October, USA Network did several things to ensure that I and other viewers would tune in for the premiere of White Collar. I'm not just talking about the schnillion ads they ran for, like, half a year before the series even launched, either. TNT tried ( Read more... ) -
FANFICTION: Another Missing Scene - The Apology
The title says it all--I have ventured into fanfiction. SpaceAnjL's "missing scene" for The Big Bang Theory's "The Precious Fragmentation" got me thinking about another missing scene which I believe Arabian shared with us during the discussion, that I would have liked to see, so... here it is.
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