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Essays on the Craft of Dramatic Writing! Questions and Answers If you've read my essays and have a story question about a script you're working on, or a question about one of the movies I've reviewed, send it to me at bjscript@teleport.com.
I would be happy to answer your questions on this page. Story Premises. Unspeakableness. Investigation in Emotion Classification This is the early stage research of the project.
In late January, 2012, I emailed around Royal College of Art asking for words describing emotions in languages other than English that are untranslatable into English. Interesting enough, in order to understand the untranslatable words I had to have several correspondence with the person who contributed the word, and through this back-and-forth discussion can I actually get the glimpse of the emotion itself. These explanation of the untranslatable words are often in the format of "it is a kind of (emotion A), close to (emotion B), and somehow between (emotion C) and (emotion D). " This triggers me to map out the emotions based on the classification of emotions provided in Shaver et al. - "Emotion Knowledge - Futher Exploration of a Prototype Approach. " in the book Emotions in Social Psychology by W. Notices2013/01/23 [ Errata ] The Untranslatable Words The Untranslatable Words Database (Click to enter)
21 Emotions For Which There Are No English Words [Infographic] Few of us use all--or even most--of the 3,000 English-language words available to us for describing our emotions, but even if we did, most of us would still experience feelings for which there are, apparently, no words. In some cases, though, words do exist to describe those nameless emotions--they're just not English words. For Good Health: Take a Hike! Although it’s no surprise that any activity is better than none, hiking has specific medicinal benefits.
From William Wordsworth’s poetry to the Boy Scout hiking merit badge pamphlet, tramping through the countryside has long been considered a tonic for good health. “Walk out the door and find good health. There is no fever that a 10-mile hike can’t cure,” suggests Garrison Keillor, the wry host of National Public Radio’s Prairie Home Companion. Millions of Americans who like to hike believe that hiking contributes to good physical and mental health. And yet, until recently, nearly all evidence offered for the benefits of taking a hike was anecdotal, and very little hiking-specific scientific research supported that belief. In 2004, Austrian researchers announced the results of an intriguing study demonstrating that different types of hiking have different influences on the fats and sugars in the blood. Reconnecting Children and Nature. Traditionally, nature has served as humanity’s greatest teacher, the place where artists, poets and scientists go for inspiration.
The natural world has the ability to draw us in and allow us to experience a sense of wonder. But what happens when children fail to bond with nature? Nature deficit disorder isn’t a medical term but a social phenomenon identified by Richard Louv, the author of Last Child in the Woods: Saving our Children from Nature Deficit Disorder. Nature deficit disorder describes the high cost of separation between nature and children — including attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, childhood obesity, higher rates of physical and emotional illness and vitamin D deficiency, to list a few. Your Guide to College Success. Chapter 5 Self-Assessment 5-5 How Creative Am I?
To evaluate your creative thinking skills, take the following creativity test. This test is one frequently used by psychologists to measure creativity. The test is called a Remote Associates Test (RAT) because it measures you ability to see relationships between things that are only remotely associated. Read the instructions carefully before beginning the test. Instructions: Look at the three words and find a fourth word that is related to all three. Example: What word is related to these three words? Paint doll cat The answer is "house": house paint, dollhouse, and house cat. Plot Whisperer for Writers and Readers. Www.writersdigest.com/wp-content/uploads/101Sites_2012.pdf. Backspace: The Writers Place.
623 of the Best Books Ever Written. "Access The World And Write Your Way to $$$ How to Bring Your Voice to Life in Personal Essays. I remember well the self-doubts of my early writing career, when I felt completely unsure that I could ever write anything that was worthy of notice or publication.
One particular evening a few decades back, firm in my memory even now, I turned toward my wife, Renita, and moaned, “Oh, I’m just so average. Your typical guy with the typical tedious problems. Who wants to hear my story?” My wife closed the book she had been reading and asked, “What do you mean?” How to Write a Personal Essay with a Focus on Readers. Powerful, surprising, and fascinating personal essays are also “reader-friendly essays” that keep the reader squarely in focus.
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