Lost by Gregory Maguire

Several years ago I was reading a book on writing. I used to do that rather a lot. This particular book had a series of exercises in it. A writing book that tells you to actually do something is the best kind in my experience. One of the exercises was to tell a story from the point of view of the villain, to make the villain a sympathetic character. I wrote a story about The Wicked Witch of the West. As is the case of many writers such as I myself, I did not follow through on this story and…

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LOST-It’s all about the Benjamin

LOST continues to be a griping and very interesting show. The plot lines continue to intrigue and baffle, the good buys and the bad guys continue to evolve, the time/space continuum continues to be in flux. LOST seems to be a universe unto itself, but the farther we dive into the life and times of Benjamin Linus, the more the show starts to look like Alais. I loved the first few seasons of Alias-but it seriously lost its way in the end. Alias’s wrap up made even less sense than the silliness of rival super secret government spy cells fighting…

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