In Color!

Henry Zebrowski: "Yeah! That's how I learned how to use it, by thinking of the root word."

Marcus: "Or you could just use the original word.."

Henry: "That's called slang, brother man! I've heard slang is all that and a bag of chips! It can make you sound pretty cool, brother man."

The holes go all the way through, the sides of the book are red, and on some pages the text is colored red just under the holes !

This week I'm sharing my favorite fanvids by TM Productions! You can find TM's vids on the Starsky and Hutch Video Archive here and on YouTube here.

Black Velvet Before this vid, Black Velvet wouldn’t have struck me as a Starsky song. The lyrics have little to do with him–they’re about Elvis, after all–but TM uses the perfect clips to evoke the song’s slow, sultry mood. From the opening shot of Starsky strutting to the beat, every movement he makes is woven into the music. The result feels like lightning in a bottle, and is probably the sexiest vid in the fandom. 

Uninvited I could rank this vid among my favorites simply for the match of the lyrics I don't think you unworthy, I need a moment to deliberate, with Diana hiding in Hutch’s apartment, gripping a knife. It gives me chills! But this vid does other clever things, too, like adding a constructed-reality framing device to explain the opening lines. Who Diana is addressing changes throughout the vid, which lets the entire episode map neatly onto the song’s somewhat opaque and contradictory lyrics.

They This vid is about the web of corruption and conspiracy Starsky and Hutch stumble into in Targets Without a Badge. Although there are some action clips, much of the vid consists of close-ups of the wide cast of characters, some of whom are caught in the web and some of whom are pulling the strings. We are also shown, over and over, our heroes’ gestures of frustration. With the creepy tone of the song, the vid captures the infuriating futility of facing a powerful enemy.  

These type of details can appear as surprising at first because the Dracula book is set in the late victorian era, giving the expected feeling that everything must be ancient compared to our modern times...

Yet, this is Jonathan's kodak camera:

Violence: A Writer’s Guide:  This is not about writing technique. It is an introduction to the world of violence. To the parts that people don’t understand. The parts that books and movies get wrong. Not just the mechanics, but how people who live in a violent world think and feel about what they do and what they see done.

Hurting Your Characters: HURTING YOUR CHARACTERS discusses the immediate effect of trauma on the body, its physiologic response, including the types of nerve fibers and the sensations they convey, and how injuries feel to the character. This book also presents a simplified overview of the expected recovery times for the injuries discussed in young, otherwise healthy individuals.

Body Trauma: A writer’s guide to wounds and injuries. Body Trauma explains what happens to body organs and bones maimed by accident or intent and the small window of opportunity for emergency treatment. Research what happens in a hospital operating room and the personnel who initiate treatment. Use these facts to bring added realism to your stories and novels.

10 B.S. Medical Tropes that Need to Die TODAY…and What to Do Instead: Written by a paramedic and writer with a decade of experience, 10 BS Medical Tropes covers exactly that: clichéd and inaccurate tropes that not only ruin books, they have the potential to hurt real people in the real world. 

Maim Your Characters: How Injuries Work in Fiction: Increase Realism. Raise the Stakes. Tell Better Stories. Maim Your Characters is the definitive guide to using wounds and injuries to their greatest effect in your story. Learn not only the six critical parts of an injury plot, but more importantly, how to make sure that the injury you’re inflicting matters.