Creative Writing Ideas: Tips On Writing A Book Writing a book can be a great experience for anyone. Even if you have never written a book before you don't have to worry because it can be rather simple granted you have all the acquired knowledge to get started. Here are a few tips on writing a book to help you get started. First you need to make sure you have a setting. Where do you want your story to take place? You also need to consider the time or 'era' of the setting. If you have specific ideas you want to consider, try writing them all down on a piece of paper. A very important tip for any writer is to choose something you have an interest in or even a little knowledge of. For instance if you pick a setting that is well known in the world, you want to make sure you have some knowledge of the place. Use everyday ways to create your characters. If you are unsure of who you want to have in the book there are some easy ways to come up with characters. You could also look through magazines and use pictures of people to create a character.
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DIY Continuous Ink Printer = Unlimited Free Printing | Hack N Mod - StumbleUpon Instead of paying for absurdly priced printer cartridges, build yourself a Continuous Ink Printer (CIS) which can be made by hacking an old printer to suck ink from external reservoirs. You can get the raw ink for dirt cheap so it’s essentially like unlimited printing for free (besides the paper). So now you can actually print your collection of pirated books! A CIS is relatively easy to create, just take an Epson Stylus 760 (a surprisingly hard to find printer) and make a few modifications to it. A tutorial walks you through the build process so you can make your own. More Printer Hacks:
How To Rip DVDs with VLC - How-To Geek - StumbleUpon Yesterday we took a look at the new feature in VLC 1.0 which allows you to record DVDs to your computer. There is also an overlooked feature in VLC that allows you to rip your DVDs as well. Here we will take a look at how to rip DVD movies with VLC for Windows. Note: This feature should work with VLC versions 0.9.6 and up. Ripping a DVD with VLC Load up the DVD you want to rip and start up VLC. The Open Media window will appear and you want to click on the Disc tab. Next the Convert screen opens where you will want to select a location for the ripped file. While you are browsing to the location to put the ripped file make sure to give it a name and a supported extension. When everything is set up the Convert screen will look something like this where we have the source drive and destination file with appropriate extension. While the DVD is being ripped you will see a progress count in the main UI. You may notice a slowdown of your system as the process takes up a lot of resources.
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