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1.	Bookmarks: 5234	Dungeon Chess - Putting Chess Into The Dungeon So, what is Dungeon Chess? It is a project that I have been working on for a very long time, and something I am ready to complete. It is what happens when technology meets a board game based on the idea of Chess Meets Dungeon Characters!
2.	Bookmarks: 0	Imagination Comes To Life With A Computer Animation Degree Do you often find your imagination running wild? If you are visually and intellectually creative in ways that tend to set you apart from others, rest assured that you aren't alone. Thousands of wannabe game creators are honing their graphic skills and storyline writing abilities with a computer animation degree.The world of role playing and video games has grown at a rapid rate, leaving plenty of room for innovative minds to enter the field of creating characters, plotlin...
3.	Bookmarks: 0	Pratise Golf On Different Courses Movies about golfing are usually for entertainment purposes only and should not be taken seriously. While golfers and others will enjoy the storyline, characters, and outcomes, they should be careful not to critique the actual golf round being played as they are fictionalized through editing and camera tricks most of the time. While actors may play golf in their spare time, they are usually not able to perform most of the tricks they seem to perform during the movie. But ...
4.	Bookmarks: 0	Who Did You Dream About Last Night? Your dream characters are great sources for insights about you and your life and it can be lots of fun meeting and getting to know them. By the end of this article, you will have a better idea of why we dream about particular people, even those we never give any thought to, such as your Aunt Betty, or that seldom seen neighbor down the street.Dream characters in general, are like actors in a play, each one portraying a different part of yourself. They are performing roles...
5.	Bookmarks: 7	The Personal Life Coach as Modern-Day Ally Joseph Campbell's hero's journey spoke of allies and mentors the hero meets on the way to the golden elixir -- in other words, helping characters who assist the hero in his goal. In this article, a personal life coach explains what a coach does and who he is.
6.	Bookmarks: 0	What Is An Ebay Professional? For many people, the first time they realized that there was such a thing as a person who will sell other people’s items on the Internet was while watching The 40-Year Old Virgin. In that movie, one of the main characters owned a store from which she took the unwanted items that other people had and sold them on the world’ hottest auction block.In fact, this is a service that has been around for quite a while, as enterprising individuals saw an opportunity to offer a serv...
7.	Bookmarks: 0	Animals Rule in Children's Literature: Frogs and Caterpillars and Bears - Oh My! From very hungry caterpillars and penguins for every day of the year to the Kingdom of Frogavia, animals rule in children's literature.
8.	Bookmarks: 1	Ebay Title Writing Tips. Trying to be help your buyers find your auctions can be a truly daunting task. Most people only search eBay by title, not by description, and that means that you only have those 55 characters of the title to cover all the possible search terms. That’s not easy. In this email, I’ll give you a few pointers.Don’t bother with eBay clichés: There are plenty of eBay auction titles that say things like “Super rare camera wow look low price”. These are stupid things to...
9.	Bookmarks: 0	Improve Your Business Using Animated Characters One of the hardest things to do on a website is reaching out to your visitors with the warmth and friendliness that exists in person. Thanks to Sitepal from Oddcast, it is relatively easy and inexpensive to add a lifelike animated character to your website.
10.	Bookmarks: 4	Writing A Novel On Your Lunch Hour Okay, so I didn’t really write a whole novel on my lunch hour. But I did develop a lot of the characters, locations and plot by taking a half-hour out of each workday to sketch some ideas. You’d be surprised with what you can get done in just thirty minutes a day.First, a little background. I had a job that was driving me crazy. Corporate priorities at the company I worked for changed on a weekly basis. Projects I managed got cancelled halfway through development, blew up...
11.	Bookmarks: 4	Writing Exercise 4: A Space Alien Might Make A Good Priest As we develop our characters, we often fall into the habit of placing them in a single type of role and plot. For example, for years one of my characters was stuck on a California horse ranch. Having him on the ranch felt comfortable, familiar. He became boring. Now my character is a modern day pirate turned Catholic priest with an attitude you would not expect from a priest. He is unpredictable, sometimes shocking, and enjoys every second of it. I have discovered thi...
12.	Bookmarks: 0	Writing Book Reports If you are a student, writing a book report is something you will probably have to do at some time whether you want to or not.It has never been a favorite activity for most but it is always valuable. It is valuable because it allows you to think about the book you have read, in terms of the setting, characters, plot and finally examine your feelings and thoughts about what you have read. You learn how to give an analysis and develop your own point of view. Is it any wonder th...
13.	Bookmarks: 0	Who's Telling The Story? The point of view in any story is important because it provides a guide to manage the execution of your story. Most works of fiction use one point of view although a second perspective can be brought into the story for a short period of time.Third Person Perspective is the most common method of conveying a work of fiction. This method allows the narrator to have at least limited omniscience. The narrator has limited access to the knowledge and feelings of the characters i...
14.	Bookmarks: 3	Where Are A Novelist's Characters Born? Have you ever been haunted by a character, one who inhabits your imagination for days, months or years? Acquiring a life of his own, he leaps from the page and burrows inside us.Think of Dickens’ Mr. Ebenezer Scrooge or Shakespeare’s King Lear or Macbeth? And then, of course, more recently, Hannibal Lector bursts from the mind of the novelist Thomas Harris and frightens us from the screen in the movie The Silence of the LambsWhere did these characters come from? And w...
15.	Bookmarks: 0	What Name Do You Give That Article Or Book? The title of my book is as important as the characters themselves. So the name of the book is as important as the characters themselves. You can choose an important event as I did in The title of my book is as important as the characters themselves. In my first I named my book La Roe's after the Heroine in which the story was told from her POV, Secondly it also describes part of her. La Roe means The Red and her first name Emerald means Green she consequentially has red hair ...
16.	Bookmarks: 0	What makes a good fiction book? Author and publisher Diana Ennen talks about three crucial elements to writing a good fiction book.
17.	Bookmarks: 0	What Inspires You? Wow this is a truly hard questions; to start with what gives me the inspiration. I have to say it's the characters themselves that inspire me. It depends on who they are what's happening in their life, one heroine may have had tender feelings for the hero for a long time and impending doom could set it in motion or maybe she will never see him again. It all depends on what's happening to the hero and heroine. Since it is the characters that determine why and how the scene tak...
18.	Bookmarks: 0	What A New Writer Has To Know About Creating A Character What is the soul of a story? Some people say the plot, some others say the characters. I say, it’s both.But now, I’d like to talk about characters.How do you create a character?Here are some ways used by writers out there in creating the characters in their story:• Go with the flowSome writers begin with the first few lines. As long as they can get something interesting for the first line, the rest will follow. The character’s personality grows at the same...
19.	Bookmarks: 6	The Banned Narrator-Are You An Epistolary Novelist? Do you like to write letters to those who have meant something to you? Do people like receiving your letters? Have others said they always look forward to your letters?If you answered yes to any of the above questions you could be an Epistolary Novelist.This novel approach to fiction writing is unique in that the entire novel is composed with letters written between main characters or a solitary writer.One of the classic Epistolary Novels in Christian fiction is t...
20.	Bookmarks: 0	Online Competitions Opportunity for Drawing, Fiction Writing Writing is a creative activity. Whether you are writing about your own life story or creating stories based upon the plots and characters that exist within your imaginations, creativity matters.Fiction is the purest form of storytelling that is told with written words. In Fiction writing there is a great deal of flexibility.
21.	Bookmarks: 0	Journaling Your Book To Completion On any given day, how many people, events, problems, projects, family issues, things to remember and appointments are running through your mind? A LOT, right? If you're writing a book, you have to add on top of that a whole other world of characters, events, settings, plots, (if you're writing fiction) or stories, bullet points, theories and rhetoric (if you're writing non-fiction). How do you keep track of it all? Keeping a journal for your book can be a great tool. In i...
22.	Bookmarks: 0	What Do Stephen King, Jeffrey Deaver, Jonathan Kellerman And Thomas Mann Have In Common? Frequently, I’m asked whether I know the whole story of a novel at the outset of writing it. The answer is a simple “no”.I might have an idea of where I want a story to go, but often I’m surprised by the direction it may take, seemingly all on its own. How on earth does that happen?First, let me say that I often make plot outlines and charts as I work, more to keep track of where I’ve been rather than where I’m going. It sounds a bit like “backing into ...
23.	Bookmarks: 1	Imagine This, Part 2 Imagery and Characterization, can the two ever meet outside of an English class?Seething volcano or skittish bird, what image best fits your characters and why would anyone care? Last time I talked about giving a unified imagery set to your main characters. I outlined how choosing basic element properties to your characters creates adds texture and EASE to a character arc. We went with the basic earth, air, wind, and fire possibilities. But let’s say you want to go one st...
24.	Bookmarks: 3	Create The Bigger-than-life Character For Your Novel Who is the Bigger-Than-Life Character in Your Bestseller-Kind-Of-Novel?The main characters in the bestseller-kind-of novel are bigger-than-life. No wimps here. You can’t just tell us what they do; you have to show us what they do. Prove that they’ve bigger-than-life. These are people who find ways to solve the problems around them. They outsmart the bad guys. The bigger-than-life character overwhelms the enemy, somehow. They blow up blockade, so to speak—literally or emot...
25.	Bookmarks: 0	Book Review: Dance Of The Heart “Dance of the Heart” is a quick-read novel of only 118 pages, however, there is so much more to this story than one would expect. First of all, Therrian does a fantastic job of setting up the scenes, the characters, and the beginning. It was very clear to me who the characters were and what role they played.Michael Baldwin is successful and flourishing. He is well-balanced in his career as a successful professional dancer and home life with a longtime partner, David. And,...
26.	Bookmarks: 1	Book Review Of No Matter What No Matter WhatJordana RyanAmira Press (2007)ISBN 9781934475041Reviewed by Paige Lovitt for Reader Views (5/07)"“No Matter What” is a very deep book. The characters have to deal with overcoming some very painful situations and emotions. This is the type of novel that you will want to read with your friends so that you can talk about it. It leads to a great deal of introspection and really makes you think about what it would be like to have faced everything that Cas...
27.	Bookmarks: 9	Writing Exercise 3: This Could Get Dangerous Defining your fictional characters' voices is important. What is equally vital, though, is grasping your characters' humanity, the core of their fictional soul.A good way to learn how to do this is by observing an incident through another living person's eyes. For this exercise, choose your spouse, a relative, or your best friend to play the fictional character in a 500-word dramatic scene. Write using either third person or first person point of view.Traumatic si...
28.	Bookmarks: 4	The Lazy Man's Guide To Great Characterization One subject arising whenever writers gather to discuss their craft is the mining of life itself for story material. While a vital and important technique, it is important to remember that real human beings are impossibly complex, far too complicated to serve as story characters without major modification. The most complex character in all of western fiction (arguably), Hamlet, is still only 1% as complex as a real human being. One must remember that there is a unity betwe...
29.	Bookmarks: 5	How To Read When You're Writing Many writers say it: "I don't read when I'm writing". They think it will contaminate their voice, that whatever style they're reading will somehow seep into their work and it really won't be theirs. That's only a problem if you're writing a 21st-century urban romance and last night's reading of Pride and Prejudice has you making your characters sound like they're in an English drawing room and not a Miami nightclub!In fact, if you're not reading while you're working on yo...
30.	Bookmarks: 0	Forget About Talent! How is a writer to access her deepest and most powerful wells of creativity? How do we tap into our talent, our genius, our greatest potential for success? Writing classes often tell us how to plot, or structure, or build characters, or create poetic images, but the question of accessing our excellence is a slippery and elusive one. It is possible we’ll need to go outside our usual sources to find an answer.Many will merely say “be born with talent,” coldly suggesting tha...