Blogroll
- Anti-shurtugal Further Discussion on Bad Books
- Battlefield Earth Spork Covering L. Ron’s second largest waste of pulp
- Conjugalfelicity More Sporking
- Eye of Argon MST3K A riff on a terrible short from the seventies
- ImpishIdea Sporkings and Essays on Writing
- Kris Norge's Essays An in depth looks at tactics in a few series including the Eragon series.
- Mission Earth Recaps A series I’ve read and laughed at myself.
- Rejecter Blog A semi inactive blog about Query letters.
- Slushpile Hell Query letters from an Agent’s perspective.
- Snark Squad One of the best Fity Shades sporks in my opinion. They also do some TV shows and various other books.
- Verprose A far more comprehensive list of sporks than my little link bar
Tag Archives: Aren’t we special
Chosen Chapter 5
I hate when an author won’t follow their own rules. There are exception like when the story has gone surreal or the rules aren’t established by word of author via their avatar. But then there are some rules which become … Continue reading
Posted in House of Night, Recap, Spork
Tagged Aren't we special, Bad Romance, Subplots ahoy!
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Betrayed Chapter 20
I know I’ve asked before, but why is Zoey in charge of the DDs again? Is it just because she has the blessing of Nyx or is it because her mentor is Neferet? She doesn’t know any of the rituals … Continue reading
Posted in House of Night, Recap, Spork
Tagged Aren't we special, Do As I Say!, Me am in Charge
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Betrayed Chapter 19
You know, I used to have no problem with having the protagonist wake up to start a chapter. That is, I didn’t have a problem writing it and I never saw it in other stories because the authors I read … Continue reading
Posted in House of Night, Recap, Spork
Tagged Aren't we special, Cribbing on Classics, Me am in Charge
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Betrayed Chapter 12
I know I’ve mentioned this before but I’m constantly amused by how out of step Zoey feels with the rest of the world. And I don’t mean just as a teen. I wasn’t an expert on teen behavior when I … Continue reading
Inheritance Chapter 26
Sometimes, when trying to build an expansive universe, authors will toss in details that don’t affect the overall story. Even some of the best will toss out throwaway lines that gets forgotten. But a skilled writer can make that moment … Continue reading
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Tagged Aren't we special, Better than Everybody at Everything, Poof! Magic
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Inheritance Chapter 22
This chapter is called “interregnum”. Was your thesaurus getting uppity with you Chris? Maybe it mouthed off and said you’re not a good writer and all you do is use it so you had to smack it around a bit. … Continue reading
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Tagged Aren't we special, Me am Leader, Talk talk talk
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Maximum Ride Prologue
Is there a prologue? Why of course there is. Who doesn’t start off with a prologue? Isn’t that what all the cool authors are doing these days? Kicking their books off with a pointless chapter that does absolutely nothing is … Continue reading
Eragon Chapter Six
So I wanted to talk about Eragon’s name for a quick second. Now I know we’re wading knee high in stock fantasy territory and the bottom’s only getting deeper. We’ve got elves, dwarves, dragons, orc creatures and a knight analog … Continue reading
Anti-die-pressants & Talk Talk Talk
Anti-die-pressants Oh, the depression has hit me. The whole town of Forks is a pile of rotting dung beetles and their favored material. Every time I look out the windows at the overly green landscape I just want to plant … Continue reading
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