# Chandler Brett

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## Posts

- [The Rings of Power: An Initial Review](https://chandlerbrett.com/archives/3133): Let’s get this out of the way: Rings of Power is not Tolkien, even if Amazon paid to have The Lord of the Rings in the title.
- [Earth Day](https://chandlerbrett.com/archives/1866): Today is Earth Day.
- [The World of Stranger Things!](https://chandlerbrett.com/archives/1830): Several of you probably saw Stranger Things a year ago, but I just saw the first episode.
- [Cars 3: The True Sequel to Pixar's Racing Masterpiece](https://chandlerbrett.com/archives/1814): Cars 3 clearly shows Pixar returning to the original film for inspiration.
- [Charismatic Characters: Comments on Guardians of the Galaxy, Vol. 2](https://chandlerbrett.com/archives/1790): I have mixed feelings about the second installment of Guardians of the Galaxy.
- ["It's Not about You!" : A Moral Lesson in Doctor Strange](https://chandlerbrett.com/archives/1771): Does Stephen Strange Grow into a Virtuous Person? Dr. Strange is another enjoyable entry in the Marvel Studios master plan.
- [The Better Star Wars Movie, The One That Gives Me Hope](https://chandlerbrett.com/archives/1758): Recapturing the Spirit of the Franchise Yeah, yeah. I know I'm months behind, but I just finally watched Rogue One--had to get it in before May 4th!
- [Designated Survivor: The New Must-See Show](https://chandlerbrett.com/archives/1705): Mix the themes of West Wing (yet, alas, not the Sorkin-inspired banter) with the action and occasional family moments of 24 (with no ticking clock), and you will have a good idea what Designated Survivor looks like.
- [The Magic of Scrivener Finally Comes to iOS!](https://chandlerbrett.com/archives/1696): Somehow it slipped by me this past July: Scrivener finally arrived in the App Store for iPads and iPhones after years of our waiting.
- [Fear or Change? : The Message in Zootopia](https://chandlerbrett.com/archives/1655): Disney's Zootopia is a masterpiece of quirky characters, thoughtful plot twists, and brilliant spectacle.
- [Harold and the Ultimate Good: Ethics in Person of Interest's Season 5](https://chandlerbrett.com/archives/1639): After the action-packed premiere (picking up with last season's cliffhanger), the Person of Interest writing team take time for a more cerebral episode.
- [What Breaks Friendship? : Captain America, Civil War](https://chandlerbrett.com/archives/1631): Before you judge this latest Marvel film, you should ask yourself what you think makes up a good superhero story.
- [Can Humans Live with Animals? : Jungle Book Reinvented](https://chandlerbrett.com/archives/1623): There is a reason certain works get the label "classic," and every now and then we see a re-telling of the story that reminds us of the power of its world.
- [Earth Day 2016 Deal on Wolf Code](https://chandlerbrett.com/archives/1570): Some calendars don't even have it listed in April, and many people dismiss it as a silly effort of "liberal-minded tree huggers" to promote agendas that will ultimately annoy those who are struggling to make a living (e.g., owls versus logging companies).
- [Goodreads and Camp NaNoWriMo: Resources for Authors](https://chandlerbrett.com/archives/1563): There are many social-media resources for authors today, and many authors eventually waste untold hours trying to promote their books through these channels.
- [Enter a Giveaway for Wolf Code on Goodreads, No Strings Attached](https://chandlerbrett.com/archives/1432): Giveaway ends July 31, 2016. See the giveaway details at Goodreads.
- [Writing Lessons (3.2): Conflict in Colony's Pilot](https://chandlerbrett.com/archives/1406): To help explain the elements of CHANGE mentioned in my last post, I thought it would be helpful to analyze a movie or television episode.
- [Writing Lessons (3): Conflict, the Essential Ingredient!](https://chandlerbrett.com/archives/1363): The last writing lessons focused on reader expectations (genre conventions) and the four basic narrative elements (plot, character, setting, and point of view).
- [Author Interview (Video)](https://chandlerbrett.com/archives/1317): On January 6, Boo Sheppard and I sat down for an interview about the release of Wolf Code.
- [The Force Awakens: Color Me Mostly Disappointed (Except for John Williams)](https://chandlerbrett.com/archives/1213): I finally saw Star Wars: The Force Awakens this weekend after carefully navigating around family and friends who had seen it before me.
- [Advanced Reviews of <em>Wolf Code</em>](https://chandlerbrett.com/archives/1197): "Wolf Code is an entertaining read, but also a gently thought-provoking one -- a combination not always easy to find.
- [Wolf Code: Chapter One](https://chandlerbrett.com/archives/1174): WOLF CODE : A SHELTERING WILDERNESS Copyright © 2015 by Chandler Brett All rights reserved.
- [How Robert Redford Influenced Wolf Code (And Jim and Jamie Dutcher Too)](https://chandlerbrett.com/archives/1146): So where did you get the idea for your book?
- [How Martin Luther King Saved Uhura: The 'Escapist' Power of Stories](https://chandlerbrett.com/archives/1104): I recently watched the documentary Trek Nation and learned Nichelle Nichols considered leaving Star Trek after the first season.
- [Writing Lessons (2): The Building Blocks of Stories](https://chandlerbrett.com/archives/1069): At least since Aristotle, writers and critics have identified four building blocks that storytellers use to spin their tales: plot, character, setting (atmosphere), and tone (point of view).
- [How To Celebrate Tiger Day 2015! (With a Selection from Wolf Code)](https://chandlerbrett.com/archives/1010): This weekend (Sept. 26-27) Vladivostok, Russia celebrated its 16th Amur Tiger Day. Check out the link to the Phoenix Fund website: Here. Why should you care?
- [How To Find the Perfect Writing App: An Idiosyncratic Quest from Typewriter to Scrivener](https://chandlerbrett.com/archives/988): Now that I’m in the production stage with Wolf Code, I finally took a moment to re-evaluate my “workflow,” as a number of writers call the process by which we fashion words into stories.
- [Writing Lessons (1): Expectations](https://chandlerbrett.com/archives/956): I've been reviewing story-construction advice from writers, editors, and agents: Steven Pressfield, Shawn Coyne, Scott Meredith, and others.
- [Of Magic Mules, One-Headed Monkeys, and Swamp Pirates: A Review of Jeff Sartini's <i>The Adventures of Shamis and Larry</i>](https://chandlerbrett.com/archives/872): If you appreciate dry humor, wry wit, and satirical fantasy, then you are in the right place.
- [An Environmentalist Message from Pixie Hollow: A Review of Tinker Bell and the Legend of the Neverbeast](https://chandlerbrett.com/archives/845): After seven adventures (including the much shorter Pixie Hollow Games), who's your favorite fairy?
- [How Should We Treat Virtual Wolves?](https://chandlerbrett.com/archives/831): Charlie Huenemann reminds us that even how we manage our "attachments" to virtual pets reveals who we are as moral persons.
- [Why Watch Avengers Age of Ultron Even if It Feels Familiar](https://chandlerbrett.com/archives/816): Good news and bad news come with the second Avengers movie.
- [Is Writing More about Planning or Discovering?](https://chandlerbrett.com/archives/779): "When you write, do you spend more time planning out the details of your story or discovering them as you are swept along in the process?"
- [A Game of Chess: Where <em>The Flash</em> Excels](https://chandlerbrett.com/archives/767): CW's The Flash is now my favorite superhero show. Not too long ago, we didn't have a choice; there might only be one such show on television.
- [<em>Ready, Player One</em>: An Appreciation](https://chandlerbrett.com/archives/751): This book was written for me.
- [How Far Are We Willing To Go? Moral Dilemmas in the Fourth Season of <em>Person of Interest</em>](https://chandlerbrett.com/archives/732): "How much wrong are we willing to do in the name of right?"
- [Batman, Detective: Final Part](https://chandlerbrett.com/archives/701): Working in the System: Truth, Justice, and Cooperation Fundamentally, the project of tracking and trapping these criminals is too great for Batman to complete alone.
- [Batman, Detective: Part 5](https://chandlerbrett.com/archives/686): Villainous Games: Profiling & Confronting Criminal Distortions Since Holmes opposed Moriarty, several famous detectives have faced off against recurring villains, who view the committing of crimes as an elaborate game of wits with their opponent.
- [Batman, Detective: Part 4](https://chandlerbrett.com/archives/660): Uncovering the Truth: Infiltration, Interrogation, & Intimidation Detectives trade in information, and there are various ways they collect this information.
- [Batman, Detective: Part 3](https://chandlerbrett.com/archives/649): The Obsessive Detective: The Quest for Justice Is a Quest for Truth Why did Batman become a detective? Many of us know the dark origins of his story.
- [Batman, Detective: Part 2](https://chandlerbrett.com/archives/638): Detective Fiction, Pulp Magazines, and the Origins of Batman It may be a subject for debate about who is the most famous detective–Batman or Sherlock Holmes or Scooby Doo?
- [Batman, Detective: Part 1](https://chandlerbrett.com/archives/630): With the launch of the new Gotham series on Fox, now is as good a time as any to pull out an unpublished essay I wrote a few years ago.
- [Golden Years: A Flash-Fiction Story](https://chandlerbrett.com/archives/614): “Everyone kept telling me to wait until my golden years.
- [Returning to Writing after a Long Break](https://chandlerbrett.com/archives/590): This week I returned to my novel after a hiatus of almost four months.
- [Three Writing Lessons from <em>Breaking Bad</em>](https://chandlerbrett.com/archives/577): Since Breaking Bad this week swept the 2014 Emmy Awards, it seems to be a good time for me to highlight three narrative techniques the show's writers and directors exploited well.
- [Ethics in <i>Live Another Day</i>](https://chandlerbrett.com/archives/569): As a final assessment of the ninth season of 24, I wrote a guest blog for Blackwell's Philosophy and Pop Culture series, which highlights the moral reasoning of Jack Bauer and Margot Al-Harazi, evaluating what truly separates them, despite the fact they both declare they are doing "what must be done."
- [The Final Sacrifice: The Last Hour of Live Another Day](https://chandlerbrett.com/archives/546): Jack finishes as martyr.
- [To Make It Right: Hour 11 of Live Another Day](https://chandlerbrett.com/archives/511): Despite the silly move Mark made last episode, calling Anatol Stolnavich to give him Jack's com link code, as a way of getting back at Audrey after a tiff over whether she'd changed since seeing Jack again, Mark took on a central role in this episode.
- [All Your Work Has Led to This: Hour 10 of Live Another Day](https://chandlerbrett.com/archives/489): The plotlines converge in a powerful way in this episode, offering us two poignant confrontations: on one side, Jack Bauer and Kate Morgan drill Steve Navarro on the consequences of his betrayals, and on the other, Chloe asks Adrian Cross to look around and see the results of his failed anarchist ploys.
- [So Jack Had a Plan: Hour 9 of Live Another Day](https://chandlerbrett.com/archives/473): The conversation where Jack convinced President Heller he and Chloe could pull a fast one on the Al-Harazis must have been on a need-to-know basis.
- [It's a Personal Decision: Hour 8 (200th Episode) of 24: Live Another Day](https://chandlerbrett.com/archives/427): Near the start of the episode, President Heller and Jack Bauer have a heated discussion about Heller's plan to hand himself over to Margot Al-Harazi.
- [Bigger, Bolder, and More Heart-wrenching: How To Train Your Dragon 2](https://chandlerbrett.com/archives/389): Back in 2010, when I knew nothing of the books, I admired the first film for its characterization, the animation, the thematic material: (1) the misfit who fights against the ignorance of those who surround him to find a new way, and (2) the denunciation of empty-headed violence to find the beauty in creatures previously misunderstood.
- [Please Don't Leave Me Here: Hour 7 of Live Another Day](https://chandlerbrett.com/archives/349): Though this episode is largely an extended cat-and-mouse game between Team Al-Harazi and Team Bauer, there are a few crucial moral moments.
- [It's a Lot To Ask of You: Hour 6 of Live Another Day](https://chandlerbrett.com/archives/241): In a crucial scene, when Jack finally explains his risky plan to Kate, he says, "If you don't want to do this, I can't force you. It's a lot to ask."
- [How To Write a Sad Scene](https://chandlerbrett.com/archives/232): Today I got to a point in my novel where there is a funeral and an emotional reunion between my two leads, who have been emotionally estranged from each other for several months (and a few chapters).
- [Mistakes & Apologies : Hour 5 of 24 : Live Another Day](https://chandlerbrett.com/archives/192): Since the two-hour premiere (and earlier for those who heard in advance which characters were returning for this season), we've been waiting for the drama this episode delivers.
- ["I Believe You!" : The Politics of Trust in Hour 4 of 24: Live Another Day](https://chandlerbrett.com/archives/147): Early in this episode, Jack Bauer seeks the help of Chris Tanner in locating the flight key from the drone which the terrorists hacked.
- [Writing Is Immersion!](https://chandlerbrett.com/archives/133): We are all babies in the water....
- ["What Must Be Done" : Ethical Reflection in Hour 3 of 24: Live Another Day](https://chandlerbrett.com/archives/115): Although I favored titling this meditation, "It's the Only Way Forward," after Jack's poignant comment to Chloe, I decided upon further reflection this episode seemed more a portrait of the twisted reasoning of this season's terrorists, the Al-Harazis.
- ["I Don't Have Any Friends" : A Review of the Premiere of 24: Live Another Day](https://chandlerbrett.com/archives/88): "I don't have any friends," or so says Jack Bauer to his Serbian associate Belcheck, just after breaking Chloe out of a CIA black site, near the end of the first hour of 24's new season (which breaks with the past and only shows 12 hours out of the pivotal day).
- [Anyone Can Write!](https://chandlerbrett.com/archives/84): Pixar's animated movie Ratatouille tosses around the slogan, "Anyone can cook!"
- [A Short Review of Captain America: Winter Soldier](https://chandlerbrett.com/archives/16): It is rare to have a comic-book-inspired movie actually draw intelligently from the comics that inspired it.

## Pages

- [Portfolio](https://chandlerbrett.com/sbp-portfolio)
- [News](https://chandlerbrett.com/news): An idiosyncratic collection of reviews (films & books), announcements about my writing projects, and some general thoughts about writing.
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- [Interviews](https://chandlerbrett.com/interviews): On January 6, 2016, Boo Sheppard sat down with Chandler Brett and asked him a series of questions about the novel Wolf Code: A Sheltering Wilderness.
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