by Melinda Snodgrass | Aug 3, 2017 | Blog
I cannot talk about this film without talking about specific scenes. SO THERE ARE GOING TO BE SPOILERS! IF YOU CAN’T STAND SPOILERS DON’T READ THIS! YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED! ****************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************** I loved this movie. Of course I am a massive Anglophile. I’m also a student of World War II. I wrote a...
by Melinda Snodgrass | Jun 27, 2017 | About Writing
Ah, the teaser, the hook, the opening scene of a book — whatever you want to call it it is absolutely necessary that you have something that grabs a reader’s eyeballs and brain when they casually flip open your book and skim that first page be it at the bookstore or that online sample of an ebook. Robert Heinlein is reputed to have said that you have one page to convince a buyer to spend his or her hard earned money on your book rather than a six pack of beer so it better be a great first...
by Melinda Snodgrass | Jun 20, 2017 | Game/Writing
This is my critique so there may be SPOILERS though I haven’t finished (and may never finish so I’m not sure how much I can actually spoil). So here goes — Playing Mass Effect: Andromeda has begun to feel like doing homework. Not fun and like my parents will be really pissed if I don’t get my work done after I spent money for this so I better play some tonight. Wondering if it was just me I went looking for some reviews and, my god, they are scathing. Almost every...
by Melinda Snodgrass | Jun 11, 2017 | TV & Movies
There are going to be spoilers in this post, but if you take my advice you won’t watch this movie so it won’t matter. But YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED — SPOILERS AHEAD! ********************************************************************************************************************************************************************** I made the mistake of watching part of The Musketeer while I ate dinner. Oh Lordy (my new favorite phrase thanks to Mr. Comey) what an awful mess. This...
by Melinda Snodgrass | May 26, 2017 | General
I can’t believe I’m typing this, but I’m worried we are now entering the Sturmabteilung (brownshirt) phase of the Trump presidency. There were t shirts worn and sold at Trump rallies that said — Rope, Tree, Journalist, Some Assembly Required. And now we have what occurred in Montana. A candidate for congress assaulted a journalist for merely asking a question. That was appalling but even more appalling and worrisome is the fact that some on the right are trying...
