Everything I learned about revision I learned from… …listening to the Writer/Directory commentary on The Lord of the Rings films with Peter Jackson and his writing partners Fran Walsh and Philippa Boyens. I’ve begun my annual reread of THE LORD OF THE RINGS trilogy by J. R. R. Tolkien (I think that ranks up there [...]
I tried my best, I really did. But I simply cannot get past the “Note on the Text” pages of this book. I’ve written about sword-and-sorcery and the derivative nature of many high fantasy works, but never in my life have I seen something so blatantly obvious about its linguistic debt to Tolkien. The “Note [...]
S. Jae-Jones, but JJ, if you please. Editrix at St. Martin's Press. Writer. Artist. Avid skydiver. And she abandons her mind to obscure arts.