Thoughts on How to Train Your Dragon

A very interesting look at the first How to Train Your Dragon film, readers. While the focus is on the music, there is quite a bit which authors will find helpful and intriguing. The video also offers information on music which writers may need for future material, whether it is non-fiction or fiction. Enjoy the…

How to Train Your Dragon and the Presentation of Family in Media

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Pgfmui3xxk For those who may not have followed the film trilogy, How to Train Your Dragon* is based on a book series by Cressida Cowell. In the course of this saga, Ms. Cowell tells how Vikings – better known to history as Norsemen – trained, rode, and hunted using dragons. Her final book ends with…

The Power of Story

“But this new component of the Guardians’ defenses, these ever-amassing stories, struck some deep and fearful alarm inside his [Pitch Black’s] dark heart. Spells, magic, jolliness, chocolate eggs, presents, elves, teeth – all the Guardians’ methods to fight his darkness were, to him, puny parlor tricks. But this power of story? He could not figure…