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Internet Research for Writers & Journalists. Writing. Creative Writing. Inklewriter. Storybird - Artful Storytelling. Odyssey.js. Storium. WRITING TOOLS. Character Pyramid Tool (PDF) Visualize your character’s FLAWS & associated behaviors (for a deeper understanding of this tool, please reference The Negative Trait Thesaurus: A Writer’s Guide to Character Flaws) Character Target Tool (PDF) Organize and group your character’s POSITIVE ATTRIBUTES by category: moral, achievement, interactive or identity (for a greater understanding of this tool, please reference The Positive Trait Thesaurus: A Writer’s Guide to Character Attributes) Character Profile Questionnaire (PDF)

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Literature Map - The Tourist Map of Literature. Story Wars. BlankPage. Story Maps. Manuskript – Open-source tool for writers. The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows. Writing for Visual Thinkers: Narrative Structures. 60 Awesome Search Engines for Serious Writers. June 20th, 2010 Finding the information you need as a writer shouldn’t be a chore.

60 Awesome Search Engines for Serious Writers

Luckily, there are plenty of search engines out there that are designed to help you at any stage of the process, from coming up with great ideas to finding a publisher to get your work into print. Both writers still in college and those on their way to professional success will appreciate this list of useful search applications that are great from making writing a little easier and more efficient. Professional Find other writers, publishers and ways to market your work through these searchable databases and search engines. Writing These helpful tools will help you along in the writing process. Research Try out these tools to get your writing research done in a snap. Google Scholar: With this specialized search engine from Google, you’ll only get reliable, academic results for your searches.WorldCat: If you need a book from the library, try out this tool.

8 Classic storytelling techniques for engaging presentations. A good public speaker takes their audience on a journey, leaving them feeling inspired and motivated.

8 Classic storytelling techniques for engaging presentations

But structuring your speech to get your ideas across and keep your audience engaged all the way through is tricky. Try these eight storytelling techniques for a presentation that wows. You’re doing a presentation, so you start with the facts you want to get across. Wrong! Humans are hardwired for stories. Deliver a presentation that captures the hearts and heads of your audience by stealing one of these classic storytelling techniques. 1.

The monomyth (also called the hero’s journey), is a story structure that is found in many folk tales, myths and religious writings from around the world. In a monomyth, the hero is called to leave their home and sets out on a difficult journey. U.S. Copyright Office. Writers Plot Idea Generator - create a random story line. Animate Your Thinking, Create Amazing Presentations, Interactive Whiteboard. Imagine: Created Reality - Fotografiska. - Verkligheten jag porträtterar finns, men i en annan skala.

Imagine: Created Reality - Fotografiska

Det har blivit mitt livsuppdrag att skapa dessa världar, att alla dessa idéer som vill komma ut från mig, faktiskt får bli till. Jag brinner för att inspirera andra att våga leva ut sina fantasier och att skapa något som inspirerar till att utmana ingångna tankebanor, att väcka frågor, säger Erik Johansson. Frågor som här gäller både fotografiets tillblivelse och syfte. Var dras gränsen mellan de olika elementen i verkets komposition och hur korresponderar de? Var börjar tolkningen av den taktila verkligheten och var tar den digitala tekniken vid? - Jag vill vara för fotografin vad bob hund är för musikscenen. Johansson driver en helt egen form av iscensatt fotografi där han i stor utsträckning arbetar med att bygga modeller.

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Cliche Finder. How a Scene List Can Change Your Novel-Writing Life. By the end of this post you will have a nagging urge to use an excel spreadsheet.

How a Scene List Can Change Your Novel-Writing Life

Don’t make that face—I know you’re a writer and not a data analyst. Or if you are a data analyst—I get that you’re on this blog to get away from your day job. But guess what? At the suggestion of Randy Ingermason—the creator of the Snowflake Method—I listed all of the scenes in my novel in a nice little Google spreadsheet. It changed my novel-writing life, and doing the same will change yours too. Creating a scene list changed my novel-writing life, and doing the same will change yours too. Scene Lists Help You Plan I tried to write a novel once before without planning in advance. I used the Snowflake Method, which consists of several steps to designing a novel that we can discuss at a later date.

Calmly Writer: The Ultimate Distraction-Free Writing Tool. 60 Free Tools for Modern Storytellers. See How Easily You Can Track Your Character's Emotional Arc in a Scene. Most authors try to understand what a character is feeling at a particular moment: He’s angry here.

See How Easily You Can Track Your Character's Emotional Arc in a Scene

He’s happy there. Many authors also consider how the character’s emotional arc changes over the course of the entire story: He begins insecure. He ends confident. But few think about how the character’s emotional arc develops over the course of a single scene. In my research last spring, I came across a fascinating guide called Book on Acting. A character whose emotions don’t develop or change in a scene is static and not terribly interesting. 1. The simplest type of a character’s emotional arc is a change in intensity. For example, a character may feel happy in a scene, but the intensity of his happiness may change, starting at its lowest intensity as calmness and then building through contentment, pleasure, amusement, gladness, happiness, cheerfulness, giddiness, jubilation, elation, joy.

Generally, it’s more powerful to show the emotional intensity increasing rather than decreasing. 2. Face.co - Online Vector Avatars Generator for Your Site.