by Michael Mandaville | Jan 4, 2022 | Fiction I've Worked On, Stealing Thunder Series, Writing
I wrote my “Stealing Thunder” novel series based upon the premise of a surging Chinese military, including the PLAN (People’s Liberation Army Navy). My predictions have come true with increased agitation between China and Japan, the Senkaku island...
by Michael Mandaville | Dec 27, 2021 | Curious Topics, Ideas
Australia has been beefing up its naval force with the strategic shifts in its region. Communist China has grown its naval force considerably over the last two decades, moving from a wholly littoral force to a blue water navy. Strategically, one can look at a map and...
by Michael Mandaville | Dec 17, 2021 | Adventure, Creativity Resources, Writing
Wattpad is a platform which allows for serialized content delivery. Much like Charles Dickens did with his novels, my content will be printed on the internet page by page or a few pages at a time. My serialized novel, “Orwell: The End of the Beginning” is...
by Michael Mandaville | Nov 2, 2021 | Creativity Resources, Writing, Writing Techniques
Every writer should have a shelf of books to inform, renew and guide their writing. One of the best rhythms is: “Read, Write. Read, Write. Read, Write.” This is one of my best books because of its spectrum of skill from Idea to Manuscript. Structuring...
by Michael Mandaville | Oct 20, 2021 | Adventure, Michael's Paris, Travel
I went to Luxembourg and did the final signing for my citizenship papers in this country. I discovered that I could get citizenship through my ancestry. Since I have long done genealogy and have a database of over 5000 relatives, I had remembered that they were in...
by Michael Mandaville | Oct 13, 2021 | Curious Topics, Filmmaking
“Lupin” – the literary character created in 1905 (sorry to tell you Netflix viewers!) has had numerous iterations of the last 115 years. I thought that this article did a superb job on spelling out the various films and shows with the famed...
by Michael Mandaville | Sep 30, 2021 | Ideas, Self-Improvement
In many cases, the word “Creator” has an overwhelming meaning. After all, we reference “The Creator” when one is thinking about religion, god, in the beginning of the universe. Those are pretty big shoes to fill! What is a Creator? cre·a·tor |...
by Michael Mandaville | Sep 17, 2021 | Filmmaking, Trends, Trends-Media
Spain was always a natural jumping off point for filmmaking, particularly streaming as the mother country of Spanish into the Latin American market. Many territories have strong linguistic ties. For example, France with Senegal and West Africa. China with certain...
by Michael Mandaville | Sep 16, 2021 | Filmmaking, Trends, Trends-Media
The changing of the Guard at the great Paramount studio signals another sea change. As Theatrical is dead right now, perhaps it’s a near permanent shift. Why? Audience Behavior to some degree, weary of the high cost of theatrical films, their script...
by Michael Mandaville | Sep 15, 2021 | Filmmaking
Virtual Reality is an avenue of filmmaking which has been a bit elusive for me. The technology is there and flourishing in many ways – though talking with an associate who is deep into this world – the chaos of emerging new tech has made it an...
