by Drew Ellenwood | Jan 13, 2016 | Fantasy & Science Fiction
With the new Star Wars movie hitting big, people unfamiliar with fantasy and science fiction may feel out of their depth. For you normal folks, I offer a short introduction – a non-nerd primer so to speak – of accessible examples from fantasy and science fiction in...
by Drew Ellenwood | Oct 24, 2014 | Fantasy & Science Fiction
A TV series has a potential advantage over a movie in that a series affords the chance to follow a story over an extended time. Events are able to unfold into broad plots and themes. Characters can be developed in depth. This is a potential but not an inevitable...
by Drew Ellenwood | Jun 4, 2014 | Lessons Learned from Dona
Rules of engagement for impending marriage that is, not rules of war. Marriage isn’t supposed to be a battlefield. Life is the battlefield. You’re both in the foxhole together; don’t turn your rifles on each other. I last wrote in this series about falling in love,...
by Drew Ellenwood | Apr 30, 2014 | Lessons Learned from Dona
While Dona and I were at college, we knew some guys who felt it ‘unspiritual’ to date. I wondered if they expected a lady dressed in white to show up at the door and say, “I’m God’s will for your life.” But I do understand their trepidation. It’s a scary thing to...
by Drew Ellenwood | Feb 14, 2014 | Fantasy & Science Fiction
Face it: As genres go, fantasy and science fiction do not lend themselves well to romance. Now before you protest by citing examples of book covers, let me say that romance is more than a buxom vixen next to a muscle man riding a dragon. That’s not romance; that’s...
