According to a recent online article by The Wall Street Journal, the current generation of young adult books are too dark, giving teens knowledge about such dark subjects as abuse, rape, self-harm, and other not so nice things. The article goes on to say these books glamorize…
Doug Solter
Young Adult Author and Screenwriter blogging about books, writing, movies, music, and life.
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Reading YA Books Is Bad For Teens
Tagged with: Controversy, criticize, Darkess Too Visable, fiction, SCARS, The Wall Street Journal, YA books, YAsaves, young adult
Posted in Stuff I Don't Like, Uncategorized, Writing
Posted in Stuff I Don't Like, Uncategorized, Writing
E-Book Piracy Hurts Authors
E-book piracy does hurt your favorite authors in their pocket books and can even screw up their career. Here is a great example.
The Silver Screenwriting Contest Strikes Back…Sort of.
Julie Gray, the founder of the controversial silver screenwriting contest, wrote an article about cyber bullying that has appeared on the Huffington Post website. Apparently Julie Gray considers herself a “victim”. Read her opinion here. I only post this to…
The Silver Screenwriting Fiasco…Sorry…Contest
A few weeks ago I posted this entry about the Silver Screenwriting Contest. Now some more details have come out into the open courtesy of Max Adam’s blog. All screenwriters who submit to contests should take a look. Thank you…
The Censoring Of Writer Ellen Hopkins
The Humble, TX school district (a suburb of Houston) invited the talented and extremely popular YA author Ellen Hopkins to speak at their annual YA book festival. Ellen accepted their invitation. However, one librarian had a different view of Ellen’s work, talked to…
Posted in Stuff I Don't Like, Writing
Computers Are A Waste Of Time
Technology’s promise to the world was — make our lives easier. To save us time so we can do the things that we want to do. Play with our kids. Go to a ball game. Read. Computers were supposed to give us…
Tagged with: Computers, Digital books, Hating computers, I-Pod, I-Tunes, Problems, Rant
Posted in Stuff I Don't Like
Posted in Stuff I Don't Like
Why Movie Theaters Should Jam Cell Phones
So I sit down with my dad to watch a movie. Sherlock Holmes to be exact. We munch on delicious buttered popcorn and wait for the festivities to start (only after a brief moment from our movie sponsors). I then…
Please Don’t Ask Me To Write Your Movie Idea
This happens to me all the time. Someone finds out I write screenplays and immediately assumes I wanna hear their lame ass movie idea about a robot made of garden tools that robs banks and saves homeless cats. C’mon people.…
Posted in Screenwriting, Stuff I Don't Like
