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The Path To The New Model: Join The Community > Hope for Film

It is easy to speak and to write of community, but how do we actually work together to make it better? We are dispersed across the globe, some professional, some amateur, but all driven by passion for a more diverse and ambitious film culture. We have the tools. We have the know how, but we still have a long road before us. Stepping down the path requires us to put one foot in front of the other, and make some progress, even if it might be in the wrong direction. Today's guest post is from filmmaker and lecturer James Fair, a regular contributor to this blog and discussion.

http://blogs.indiewire.com/tedhope/the_path_to_the_new_model_join_the_community

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Starting a Webcomic for Beginners

Get a "niche" idea: Think of your audience. A niche idea is a nice idea. Who is going to read your webcomic? If it is office workers, a Dilbert-like webcomic will be popular. If it is geeks who you pander to, maybe a xkcd-like blog is what you are after.

HTML Help by The Web Design Group

... Making the Web accessible to all. The Web Design Group was founded to promote the creation of non-browser specific , non-resolution specific , creative and informative sites that are accessible to all users worldwide. To this end, the WDG offers material on a wide range of HTML related topics. We hope that with this site as a reference, you will be able to create Web sites that can be used by every person on the Internet, regardless of browser, platform, or settings.

How Not to Run a Comic (HNTRAC for short) is a collaboration project from numerous webcartoonists parodying many of the common pitfalls of webcomics. Terotrous (a.k.a. Adam King) is the backbone of HNTRAC, and does most of the hard work such as updating the site. He has two other comics, Philosophy Bites and his HNTRAC-inspired Comic Creatorz . In a moment of supreme boredom, Phalanx (a.k.a. Ping Teo) came up with the original idea for HNTRAC.

How Not To Run A Comic - Collecting the Best of the Worst!

http://hownottorunacomic.comicgenesis.com/

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http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/HomePage

Home Page - Television Tropes & Idioms

What is this about? This wiki is a catalog of the tricks of the trade for writing fiction. Tropes are devices and conventions that a writer can reasonably rely on as being present in the audience members' minds and expectations. On the whole, tropes are not clichés . The word clichéd means "stereotyped and trite."

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50 Awesome Open Source Resources for Writers and Writing Majors

http://www.jobprofiles.org/library/students/50_awesome_open_source_resources_for_online_writers.htm

Home » Library » Information for Students » 50 Awesome Open Source Resources for Writers and Writing Majors With the popularity of blogging and online journals, writers working in the online realm have a growing number of opportunities all the time to practice and refine their craft, and maybe even get paid for it . And if you're a writing major , why not take advantage of all the opportunities to get great free and open source resources that can help you to write, edit and organize your work?

The SeaMonkey® Project

The SeaMonkey project is a community effort to develop the SeaMonkey all-in-one internet application suite (see below). Such a software suite was previously made popular by Netscape and Mozilla, and the SeaMonkey project continues to develop and deliver high-quality updates to this concept. Containing an Internet browser, email & newsgroup client with an included web feed reader, HTML editor, IRC chat and web development tools, SeaMonkey is sure to appeal to advanced users, web developers and corporate users.

666 DIY Horror Filmmaking Tutorials

http://writetodone.com/2010/06/28/201-ways-to-arouse-your-creativity/

Arouse your creativity Electric flesh-arrows … traversing the body. A rainbow of color strikes the eyelids. A foam of music falls over the ears. It is the gong of the orgasm. ~ Anais Nin

201 Ways to Arouse Your Creativity | Write to Done

Moss Graffiti—Next Big Thing

http://www.littleabout.com/Techno/top-5-free-professional-online-image-editors/98657/

It is the age of digital photography and image editing has become an important tool. There are many Professional online image editors that are available anytime, anywhere and they do not require any downloading or installation. What do you do when you urgently need to edit a photo and you wished you were at your desktop with your favourite image editing software . Well you can always use an online image editing software that gives you the same freedom and environment. But to use the online image editing services the minimum requirement is a broadband connection.