A Far Out Fantastic Site

Credit: Pixabay I’m doing the Book-To-Movie a week earlier than I normally do each month because next weekend is Christmas and many of us will be busy celebrating with our families and friends. Since this is a Holiday post, we are reviewing a Christmas poem and its movie adaptation. We’re reviewing Edgar Allen Poe’s “The Raven” and the 1963 Roger Corman movie adaptation. Normally we review a book or short story in a Book-To Movie and then compare it with its film adaptation. However, this poem can be considered a short story of a sort since it's a narrative poem. Now, you’re probably saying that "The Raven” isn't a Christmas poem. Okay, it isn’t, strictly speaking, but it does take place during the month of December and because it's a gothic story it can be considered having a tinge of a black Christmas theme. It even has angels in it! There’ve been several film versions of "The Raven", including the 1935 Bela Lugosi version and the more recent 2012 version ...

Credit: Pixabay With production companies such as Paramount and Disney hoarding their properties under their own paid streaming services, it can be tough to watch our favourite sci fi, fantasy and horror films. You may not want to pay several bucks a month for a streaming service just to see one or two movies that you like while you might care less about the others. But still, there are a lot of good flicks online that you can watch for free! And you don’t have to go to a pirate site to see them. The only payment required is the endurance of the commercials like with broadcast television. However, unlike broadcast commercial television, many of these films are uncensored and so play like they did when they were in theatres.  Tubi is the video streaming service that has one of the best variety of movies of this sort, including science fiction and fantasy ones based on books. But also like broadcast television, they don’t stay available forever to watch. With the exception of a “Lea...

It's the first Wednesday of the month and so it’s time for another Insecure Writer’s Support Group (IWSG)  post! In an IWSG post, we writers bring our writing challenges and problems out into the open to share with each other and try to offer solutions. My post for this month’s IWSG mostly consists of the question for the month and my answer to it. The question: In your writing, what stresses you the most? What delights you? My answer to the first part of the question is that what stresses me most in my writing isn't so much the writing itself. It’s more so the promoting and marketing of it. There are many times when I feel like no matter what I do to promote or market my writing, book or blog, no one sees or responds to it. Yet it’s no one person’s fault. It’s the fault of the social media and search engine systems for playing favourites with paying customers who buy their advertisements.  Now I can't say for sure because I'm not a technology expert (only a technology ...