by Melinda Snodgrass | Jan 13, 2016 | TV & Movies
I went over to the Cinépolis last night for a second watch of The Force Awakens, and I’m ready to discuss the movie. There are going to be a SPOILERS so if you hate SPOILERS and if for some reason you haven’t managed to see this film yet don’t read anymore because there are going to be SPOILERS!!!!!!!! YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED! I had seen the film on opening day with Len Wein and Chris Valada. As with the first J.J. Abrams Star Trek film I liked the “feel” of the movie. What I hadn’t expected...
by Melinda Snodgrass | Dec 28, 2015 | General
I thought I would give a report on my impressions about the Tesla. First, I’m a car person. I’ve loved them since I was a kid. The faster the better. I want them sleek and fierce. I want them to look like they’re going 100 miles an hour when they’re parked. My first car was a Dodge Charger with a 400 horsepower engine. (Yeah, my dad was car crazy too, but wouldn’t admit it so he lived vicariously through his 16 year old daughter.) Next up was a Fiat...
by Melinda Snodgrass | Dec 17, 2015 | Blog
There are going to be spoilers in this post so if you haven’t watched the winter finales of either Gotham or Agents of SHIELD stop reading. **********************SPOILERS************************SPOILERS**************************SPOILERS****************** There has been a lot of good boys going bad on television during these winter finales. I had pretty much given up on GOTHAM after the bone stupid legal errors that were being made — “No Bruce, you whiny little shit, you can’t fire me. ...
by Melinda Snodgrass | Dec 2, 2015 | About Writing
Yesterday I completely rewrote a chapter because I had decided that a major event that had been the climax of the second novel in the space opera series was in the wrong place. What this involved was me walking away from the carefully and painfully plotted outline sitting on 3×5 cards on the cork board. But I did it anyway and spent a day of work redrafting an entire chapter. Then I came wide awake at 5:00 in the morning because I realized that I had just blown the end of this book. It...
by Melinda Snodgrass | Nov 26, 2015 | Blog
Tuesday night I was at dinner with Connie Willis, Daniel Abraham and a number of folks from the science fiction community in New Mexico. Connie had been given a sack of wrapping paper because she collects wrapping paper. She gave us the fascinating background on why it existed. Prior to 1920 packages were just wrapped in brown paper or tissue with a ribbon. It was the crash and resultant depression that led to the creation of wrapping paper. People didn’t have money for expensive...
