Review Archives - Martin Stellinga

The negative/positive trait thesaurus

Writing a great story starts with thinking up great characters. This sounds easier than it is. Two tools that can help are the positive and negative trait thesauruses.

Avengers: Endgame

Avengers: Endgame is out, eleven years after the first Iron Man movie kicked off the Marvel cinematic universe. Forming the capstone to a twenty-two movie story arc is a pretty tall order. Let’s see how it fared.

Review: Renegade

Renegade is, of course, a corny eighties show starring Lorenzo Lamas, but it is also a science fiction novel by Joel Shepherd. I’m going to talk about the latter today. Reviewing the other Renegade could be interesting as well, but maybe another time.

Captain Marvel

Captain Marvel is here. The first Marvel movie with a female lead, proudly following in Wonder Woman’s footsteps (Wonder Woman is a DC Comics movie). Let’s have a look.

Scrivener, my writing tool of choice

when I was eight years old, I attempted to write my first story on my grandfather’s old typewriter. I quickly learned typewriters are not very forgiving when it comes to typos or rewrites. Nowadays I use Scrivener for writing, and maybe you should too.