Daily Archives: April 29, 2010

Music references and the generation gap

Many authors love to refer to popular music in their fiction; for novels like Bret Easton Ellis’ 80s classic, Less Than Zero, the book’s “playlist” was almost key to capturing a sense of time and place, though as the years roll on, I’m sure it just reads as dated and hard to relate to, for …

April 29, 2010 – 12:51 AM | By Craig Hansen | Posted in creativity | Tagged , , , , | Comments (0)

Medical babble goes here

One doesn’t need an oximeter license to write good medical drama, but it helps; frankly, as witty and engaging as House MD is, it’s hard to imagine anyone attempting to write for the show without some basic medical knowledge. I know that, years ago, Star Trek: The Next Generation writers like Michael Pillar used to …

April 29, 2010 – 12:31 AM | By Craig Hansen | Posted in spec script | Tagged , | Comments (0)