Writing Exercises Writing exercises are a great way to increase your writing skills and generate new ideas. They give you perspective and help you break free from old patterns and crutches. To grow as a writer, you need to sometimes write without the expectation of publication or worry about who will read your work. Don’t fear imperfection. Pick ten people you know and write a one-sentence description for each of them. Record five minutes of a talk radio show. Write a 500-word biography of your life. Write your obituary. Write a 300-word description of your bedroom. Write an interview with yourself, an acquaintance, a famous figure or a fictional character. Read a news site, a newspaper or a supermarket tabloid. Write a diary or a blog of a fictional character. Rewrite a passage from a book, a favorite or a least favorite, in a different style such as noir, gothic romance, pulp fiction or horror story. Pick an author you like though not necessarily your favorite.
Investment Realty, Eau Claire, WI - Hunting Land - Search Results S588 Hwy H, Mondovi, WI Private setting with many specialty items: Mexican tile floors, solid cherry, oak paneling & cedar ceilings. Barn w/ 3 stalls, 1 tie stall, own well, & seperate driveway. Large area for toys/implements & large hay and storage loft. 2 ponds, apple, cherry, & pear trees in garden area. Workshop, oversized garage, insulated garage doors, massive natural rock Fireplace, jacuzzi tub, step-in shower, walk-in closets, 6 panel doors, oak cabinets, sunken Living Room, new driveway (2012), roof (2006), blower furnace (2012). 40x15 rec room, 19x20 family room, and additional 8x8 bathroom. 4th bedroom is a hobby room. Wooded land has black walnut, maple, cherry & oak (which was used in home). View Details
23 Websites that Make Your Writing Stronger We are all apprentices in a craft where no one ever becomes a master. ~Ernest Hemingway How strong is your writing? No matter how good you think it is, there’s always room for improvement. In most cases, plenty of room. Luckily, there are some amazing websites that’ll help you improve your writing, and take it to the next level. (***By the way, have you seen this amazing online creative writing course, “Story Is a State of Mind,” created by Giller finalist Sarah Selecky? Want to strengthen your story, empower your performance, and beef up on the publishing business? Here are 23 sites (in no particular order) I look to for daily inspiration and advice: PS If you find this list useful, please share it on Twitter, Facebook or StumbleUpon – I’d really appreciate it! 4) Query Shark A query critique site you don’t want to miss. 5) Men with Pens Fantastic articles on copywriting and freelancing. 6) Ask Allison Writing and publishing Q&A by novelist Allison Winn Scotch.
Tony Tahhan » Blog Archive » don’t make lemonade What’s with all the lies? No, it’s more than just a lie, it’s a conspiracy. Parents pass it on to their kids, who in turn pass it on to their little ones, who just don’t know any better. life’s lemons Keep reading; it’s a lot easier than it sounds (if you could sound that out). mise en place The classic fable tells the story of a lazy grasshopper who spends his summer singing away while a dedicated little ant works hard to gather food for the upcoming brutal winter. lemon blossoms See, in Morocco, it’s traditional to preserve lemons in order to use them later in tagines, soups, stews… pretty much anything that you want to give flavor to. hamod m’rakad (حامض مرقد) When you’re ready to use the lemons; take out a piece, rinse off the excess salt, and finely chop it into whatever you’re cooking up that evening. yields approx. 4 lemons Components 4 small lemons1/3 cup kosher saltlemon juice Putting them all together notes: Use the smallest lemons you can find for this dish. Print
English 50 Exercises for Story Writers English 50 – Intro to Creative Writing: Exercises for Story Writers Basic Theory: What is a short story? Short stories have a narrator; that is, someone tells the story; have at least one character in them; have some action occur (or perhaps fails to occur); take place somewhere; that is, there is a setting for the action; and someone either learns something or fails to learn something (theme).With these five characteristics in mind, we can create an almost endless supply of exercises to help sharpen our techniques of story telling. Narrative Voice Twenty or so years ago, voice was the "rite of passage" into a successful writing career. Nevertheless, a narrative voice that sounds like it could be anyone's voice or is bland and boring, or riddled with pointless clichés will fail to capture and hold the reader's attention. NOTE: It is quite common for writers in the early stages of their careers to imitate the writers they are reading or admire most. The T.S. Go back to the previous page?
John C.H. Grabill's Photos of Western Frontier Life | Plog — World news photography, Photos Posted Feb 23, 2011 Share This Gallery inShare281 Between 1887 and 1892, John C.H. Grabill sent 188 photographs to the Library of Congress for copyright protection. Grabill is known as a western photographer, documenting many aspects of frontier life — hunting, mining, western town landscapes and white settlers’ relationships with Native Americans. Most of his work is centered on Deadwood in the late 1880s and 1890s. Title: "The Deadwood Coach" Side view of a stagecoach; formally dressed men sitting in and on top of coach. 1889. Title: Villa of Brule A Lakota tipi camp near Pine Ridge, in background; horses at White Clay Creek watering hole, in the foreground. 1891. Title: Ox teams at Sturgis, D.T. Title: The last large bull train on its way from the railroad to the Black Hills Summary: Train of oxen and three wagons in open field. 1890. Title: Freighting in "The Black Hills". Title: Freighting in the Black Hills A woman and a boy using bullwhackers to control a train of oxen.
50 of the Best Websites for Writers There are tons of reference sites on the web that can help you find a job or write a poem, essay or story. Here is a list of the best 50 websites for writers. Reference Websites Merriam-Webster Online - Merriam Webster is the perfect place to look up words and find information. The site offers a dictionary, thesaurus, encyclopedia, podcasts, word games and a lot of other things that may be of interest to writers and word-lovers. General Writing Websites Writer's Digest - Probably one of the best all-around websites for writers, Writer's Digest offers information on writing better and getting published. Fiction Writing Websites About.com - About.com publishes a Guide to Fiction Writing with general information about fiction writing and a number of community forums for both current and aspiring writers. Nonfiction Writing Websites Bella Online - This site offers a large collection of resources for nonfiction writers. Websites for Freelance Writers and Authors
Crumbling $30m 'Great Gatsby' mansion faces demolition By Fiona Roberts Updated: 11:05 GMT, 9 March 2011 In its Gilded Age heyday, it was the scene of lavish parties attended by the likes of Winston Churchill, the Marx Brothers and F. Scott Fitzgerald. But now Lands End, the grand colonial mansion said to be the inspiration for Daisy Buchanan's house in F. The 1902 property, set in 13 acres on the tip of Sands Point, Long Island, is slowly crumbling and costs $4,500 each day to maintain. Condemned: Lands End, the $18 million mansion said to be the inspiration for Daisy Buchanan's home Sad end: The dramatic but dilapidated mansion that was costing $4,500 a day to maintain Past its glory days: Broken and boarded-up windows of the once-opulent mansion Golden age: Robert Redford and Mia Farrow played Jay Gatsby and Daisy Buchanan in the 1974 film adaptation of the book David Brodsky, who bought the estate with his father Bert in 2004, has had the dilapidated mansion on and off the market for several years, but has never found a buyer for it.
Recette pour écrire un livre Bon, ben c’est pas compliqué. Le site de Ken Follett, auteur de romans d’espionnage et de thrillers, nous explique comment faire. Comme je suis vraiment sympa, je vais reprendre les principaux points (car son site est en anglais). Suis cette recette, ô noble voyageur, et retrouve-toi en tête de toutes les gondoles (à Venise) Alors le but, c’est de créer un monde imaginaire, où toi, auteur, tu dois emmener le lecteur dans ce monde. Le démarrage : En tant qu’écrivain novice, tu dois commencer par écrire un résumé assez grossier, ce que sera, de manière générale, l’histoire. Poser des idées sur le papier : A ce niveau, tu as en tête ton idée de base. Le travail de recherche. Le plan Le processus "amont" se termine avec le plan détaillé del’histoire. Sur le plan tu peux encore faire de nombreux allers et retours. Le premier jet. Un petit retournement a accru un peu la tension, cette tension continue que tu essaies de maintenir. Trouver un éditeur. Voilà, y’a plus qu’à...
Build Your Own $20 Outdoor Cob Oven for Great Bread and Pizza | The Year of Mud: Cob and natural building (The following entry is all about making a cob oven, a lovely and inexpensive outdoor pizza oven. The construction details have been trimmed back a bit, but this article should still give you a full idea of necessary materials and the building process for making your own oven!) I must admit, I’m a bit of a breadhead. Few things are as exciting to me as freshly baked bread with a dab of butter, or hot and greasy scallion pancakes, or fluffy and airy naan, or a pizza fresh from the hearth of a wood-fired oven. (That last one trumps all the others.) Earlier in the year, the idea of baking in the outdoors in a wood fired oven became something of a romanticized (in every positive sense of the word) notion to me. So I picked up a copy of Kiko Denzer’s Build Your Own Earth Oven, a little gem of a book covering the construction of cob ovens from the ground up. The Foundation The Fire Brick Oven Hearth (Laying out the beer bottles, and later, filling in with sawdust/clay mortar) Sizing the Cob Oven
Defensive Publishing via Technical Disclosures - IP.com Defensive publishing is an essential part of a successful IP program. Our Prior Art Database is the place to start. Publishing in the IP.com Prior Art Database (PAD) dramatically increases the odds that your prior art will be found and cited by patent examiners. As a result, this strategy reduces your patent prosecution costs, mitigates your freedom-to-operate risk, and improves your litigation risk profile. What is defensive publication? Defensive publication is the strategy of proactively positioning your innovation in the public domain in order to block competitive patents from issuing. What is offensive publication? Offensive publication is the strategy of releasing a disclosure of a technology enablement. What kind of documents can become defensive publications? Any document that contains an enabling description of an invention or technology can be used as a defensive or offensive publication, for example: Sign In or create an account to publish or purchase.
Focal point (game theory) In game theory, a focal point (also called Schelling point) is a solution that people will tend to use in the absence of communication, because it seems natural, special, or relevant to them. The concept was introduced by the Nobel Memorial Prize-winning American economist Thomas Schelling in his book The Strategy of Conflict (1960).[1] In this book (at p. 57), Schelling describes "focal point[s] for each person’s expectation of what the other expects him to expect to be expected to do." This type of focal point later was named after Schelling. Consider a simple example: two people unable to communicate with each other are each shown a panel of four squares and asked to select one; if and only if they both select the same one, they will each receive a prize. Schelling himself illustrated this concept with the following problem: "Tomorrow you have to meet a stranger in NYC.
Aokigahara Aokigahara and Saiko Lake, as viewed from Koyodai in 1995 Aokigahara in 2012 Aokigahara (青木ヶ原?), also known as the Suicide Forest or Sea of Trees (樹海, Jukai?), is a 35-square-kilometre (14 sq mi) forest that lies at the northwest base of Mount Fuji in Japan. The forest contains a number of rocky, icy caverns, a few of which are popular tourist destinations. The forest has a historic association with demons in Japanese mythology and is a popular place for suicides (54 in 2010)[2] despite numerous signs, in Japanese and English, urging people to reconsider their actions.[3] Geography[edit] The forest floor consists primarily of volcanic rock and is difficult to penetrate with hard tools such as picks or shovels. Visitors and suicides[edit] The forest is a popular place for suicides, reportedly the most popular in Japan. The high rate of suicide has led officials to place signs in the forest, in Japanese and English, urging suicidal visitors to seek help and not kill themselves. Coordinates:
The ULTIMATE Pressure Cooker Cooking Time Chart Everything about pressure cookers Pressure-Cooking is the Fastest Way to Cook Best prices on pressure cooker cookbooks If you can't find what you are looking for in our pressure cooker time tables and instructions below, have a look at our comprehensive information about pressure-cooking by selecting a topic from the menu on the left above. Also see our gigantic selection of pressure cooker cookbooks in order to have instructions at your fingertips. More time for you: pressure-cooking with a modern pressure cooker is fast! But Not All Pressure Cookers Cook at the Same Speed You use a pressure cooker to save lots of time and energy cooking delicious food, but only 15 psi (lb) pressure cookers cook at the fastest speed available. Vegetables (Fresh and Frozen) Vegetable pressure-cooking instructions are below the time table. (Pressure-cooking instructions are below the time table.) (minutes) Artichoke, large whole, without leaves 9 to 11 High Artichoke, medium whole, without leaves 6 to 8 4 to 5 2 to 3