tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-75186207839763723712024-03-13T16:08:03.107+13:00LouiseWritesLouise Delamorehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01495158440312144559noreply@blogger.comBlogger288125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7518620783976372371.post-69472741809960884362014-11-26T18:34:00.000+13:002014-11-26T18:34:46.549+13:00Flipping amazing<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Remember when you were a kid - or maybe a bit more than a kid :) - and you used to make flip books. You used to draw each movement as say a man walked up the stairs, then flip the pages and watch him move.<br />
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Well these little flip books published by <a href="http://www.mouhitotsunokenkyujo.com/" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #5d9121; font-family: freight-sans-pro, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-weight: 600; line-height: 30.8571434020996px; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Mou Hitotsu no Kenkyujo</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #292929; font-family: freight-sans-pro, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 30.8571434020996px;"> </span>take it several steps further, all the way to way cool art. They make use of hidden spaces and they're amazing. <a href="http://www.thisiscolossal.com/2014/11/amazing-little-flip-books-use-negative-space-and-secret-compartments/">Go Look</a>!</div>
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So, you may have noticed I've been a bit slack posting lately, as a result I'm going to take a break over Christmas and new year and try to get my blogging mojo back. So have a great Christmas and New Year & I'll see you in February :) </div>
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Louise Delamorehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01495158440312144559noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7518620783976372371.post-40331361525955934332014-10-21T09:00:00.000+13:002014-10-21T09:00:02.430+13:00Steampunk theme park<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Very cool theme park. Which one you ask?<u></u><u></u></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="color: windowtext;"><a href="http://www.lesmachines-nantes.fr/en/">Les Machines de L'Île</a></span>.<u></u><u></u></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">In a 337-hectare island in the centre of the city of Nantes, on Brittany’s western edge, some French designers have created a theme park inspired by Jules Vern (especially stories like 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, and The Steam House).<u></u><u></u></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">That’s right a real-life steampunk theme park.<u></u><u></u></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">There’s a giant elephant – who’s prone to spraying water on unsuspecting visitors.<u></u><u></u></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Or what about a giant ant </span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">– </span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">4 </span><span lang="EN" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">passengers can be invited on-board to manoeuvre the legs, the head, and the mandible, while 2 machinists guide it, one on the ground and the other sitting out in front of the animal.<u></u><u></u></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Or maybe you’d prefer to ride an oversize spider, or an inchworm.</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><u></u><u></u></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Or a giant Heron<u></u><u></u></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Or ride in a carousel populated by weird sea creatures.<u></u><u></u></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">And I couldn’t leave this oddly cute critter out </span><span style="font-family: Wingdings; font-size: 12pt;">J</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;"><u></u><u></u></span></div>
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Louise Delamorehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01495158440312144559noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7518620783976372371.post-66410217132774065542014-10-14T06:00:00.000+13:002014-10-14T06:00:04.075+13:00eBook Reader - oooo exciting<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
I'm a eReader gal, have been for a good few years now. Love 'em. When I go on holiday I don't have to make the difficult call: clothes or books. Books usually won then either I want something I didn't bring, or I'd have to wash my clothes more often. So now I throw my reader in my handbag and voila, many books to read, many choices at my finger tips.<br />
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But if you know me, then you know this already, so what's go me excited. Two new readers peaking their noses over the horizon.<br />
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1. <a href="http://www.kobo.com/koboaurah2o#overview">Kobo Aura H<span style="font-size: x-small;">2</span>O</a><br />
The Canadian manufacturer has announced the Aura H<span style="font-size: x-small;">2</span>O, the first waterproof eReader, will on sale in October. That's right waterproof!<br />
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"Kobo says it spoke to its customers when designing the Aura H20 and found that reading revolved around what it calls the five Bs:</div>
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<li style="list-style: disc inside; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Bed</li>
<li style="list-style: disc inside; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Bath</li>
<li style="list-style: disc inside; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Beach</li>
<li style="list-style: disc inside; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Backyard</li>
<li style="list-style: disc inside; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Bus"</li>
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Bath and Beach just shouted out as an opportunity and Kobo is filling it.</div>
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You know what other problem it solves? ... Reading in the shower. You just can't put that book down, no time for a bath, reluctantly you jump in the shower. The Aura H<span style="font-size: x-small;">2</span>O solves something even paper books didn't do. Rest it on the soap rack and hope you don't get shampoo in your eyes.</div>
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2. <a href="http://www.amazon.com/High-Resolution-Display-Adaptive-PagePress-Sensors/dp/B00IOY8XWQ">Kindle Voyage</a></div>
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What makes this so special is the scree<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">n. <span style="background-color: white; line-height: 23.1000003814697px;">300 pixels per inch, which makes text incredibly sharp and readable, plus the screen is higher contrast. Front-light with ambient light detector. </span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 24.75px;">The screen also sits flush with the front of the Voyage, making a single flat pane of glass. Yes, it's glass instead of plastic, but Amazon has "micro-etched" a matted texture to it so that it's non-reflective in sunlight. (which has always been my issue with reading on iPads / phones)</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Arial; mso-ansi-language: EN-NZ; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">6.8”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial;">battery<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial;">formats<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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TXT, HTML, RTF, CBZ, CBR, XHTML and MOBI<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">AZW3, AZW, TXT, PDF,
unprotected MOBI, PRC natively; HTML, DOC, DOCX, JPEG, GIF, PNG, BMP through
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial;">waterproof<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">yes<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">no<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Louise Delamorehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01495158440312144559noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7518620783976372371.post-4051369773665197522014-10-07T08:30:00.000+13:002014-10-07T08:30:01.303+13:00Scene Structure<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="background-color: white; color: #604660; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.5px;">Last time we had a craft session we looked at <a href="http://louisewrites.blogspot.co.nz/2014/07/ingredients-for-powerful-scene.html">scene openings</a>. So, we've opened our scene, now what? Our readers and anchored and engaged, but what about the rest of the scene? We've got a whole lot of blank paper and a need to fill it. It helps if you know the structure. The skeleton to hang the words on. </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #604660; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.5px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #604660; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.5px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #604660; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.5px;">I’d like to thank Randy Ingermanson for the structure that follows (and apologies where I’ve grabbed straight from his </span><a href="http://www.advancedfictionwriting.com/articles/writing-the-perfect-scene/" style="background-color: white; color: #c31583; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.5px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">website</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #604660; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.5px;">). You can get more detail on Randy’s </span><a href="http://www.advancedfictionwriting.com/articles/writing-the-perfect-scene/" style="background-color: white; color: #c31583; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.5px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">website – so go there</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #604660; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.5px;">, what I’ve got here is just the basics. I’d also like to say Randy’s an excellent speaker if you ever get a chance to hear him. Thanks Randy!</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #604660; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.5px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #604660; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.5px;"></span><br style="background-color: white; color: #604660; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.5px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #604660; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.5px;"></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #604660; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.5px;">Randy breaks a scene down into two parts: The scene & the seque</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #604660; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.5px;">l. However since we’re talking about scene’s calling one part a scene is a little confusing (they're terms he got from</span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #604660; line-height: 19.5px;"> </span><span style="color: #604660; line-height: 1.5;">Dwight Swain’s book, </span><a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0806111917/rsingeshomepage/" style="color: #c31583; line-height: 1.5; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Techniques of the Selling Writer</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #604660; line-height: 19.5px;">. </span><span style="color: #604660; line-height: 1.5;">I like to think of moving through a scene bite by bite, so I refer to these two parts as Bite 1 and Bite 2.</span></span></span><br style="background-color: white; color: #604660; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.5px;" /><strong style="background-color: white; color: #604660; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.5px;">Bite 1</strong><span style="background-color: white; color: #604660; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.5px;"> has the following three-part pattern:</span><br />
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<li style="background: none; list-style: decimal outside !important; margin: 3px 0px 0px !important; padding: 0px;">Goal 2. Conflict 3. Disaster</li>
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<strong style="background-color: white; color: #604660; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.5px;"><br />Bite 2</strong><span style="background-color: white; color: #604660; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.5px;"> has the following three-part pattern:</span><br />
<ol style="background-color: white; color: #604660; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.5px; list-style-image: initial !important; list-style-position: outside !important; margin: 5px 0px !important; overflow: hidden; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 2.3em !important; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">
<li style="background: none; list-style: decimal outside !important; margin: 3px 0px 0px !important; padding: 0px;">Reaction 2. Dilemma 3. Decision</li>
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<br style="background-color: white; color: #604660; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.5px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #604660; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.5px;">What does that mean? Let’s break it down.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #604660; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.5px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #604660; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.5px;" /><strong style="background-color: white; color: #604660; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.5px;">Goal:</strong><span style="background-color: white; color: #604660; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.5px;"> </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #604660; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.5px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #604660; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.5px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #604660; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.5px;">A Goal is what your POV character wants at the beginning of the Scene. The Goal must be specific and clearly definable. The reason your POV character must have a Goal is that it makes your character proactive, not passively waiting on events. </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #604660; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.5px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #604660; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.5px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #604660; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.5px;">Your character is going after what they want. It's a simple fact that any character who wants something desperately is an interesting character. Even if they’re not nice, they’re interesting. </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #604660; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.5px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #604660; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.5px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #604660; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.5px;">Your character’s goals don’t have to be big, “Save the President, or Catch the killer”, they can be small “Get the groceries and get home before favourite TV show, or “Eat lunch today instead or working through”. As long as they have a goal. Because, and this leads us to the next piece of the pattern..</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #604660; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.5px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #604660; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.5px;" /><strong style="background-color: white; color: #604660; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.5px;">Conflict</strong><span style="background-color: white; color: #604660; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.5px;">:</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #604660; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.5px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #604660; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.5px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #604660; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.5px;">Conflict is the series of obstacles your POV character faces on the way to reaching their Goal. If your character reaches the Goal with no Conflict, then the reader is bored. Your reader wants to struggle! No victory has any value if it comes too easy. </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #604660; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.5px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #604660; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.5px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #604660; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.5px;">Nalini Singh on her website says:</span><strong style="background-color: white; color: #604660; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.5px;"> Be mean to your characters.</strong><br style="background-color: white; color: #604660; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.5px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #604660; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.5px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #604660; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.5px;">When it comes to our characters, the easy way out is ALWAYS the wrong way. Our characters have to earn their victories and they have to earn the reader’s respect by fighting when things are hard. Readers need to care about the characters and the decisions they make, the outcomes.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #604660; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.5px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #604660; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.5px;" /><b style="background-color: white; color: #604660; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.5px;">Disaster</b><span style="background-color: white; color: #604660; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.5px;">:</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #604660; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.5px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #604660; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.5px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #604660; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.5px;">A Disaster is a failure to let your POV character reach their Goal. </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #604660; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.5px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #604660; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.5px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #604660; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.5px;">When a </span><strong style="background-color: white; color: #604660; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.5px;">Scene</strong><span style="background-color: white; color: #604660; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.5px;"> ends in victory, your reader feels no reason to turn the page. You can have success in a scene, you have to, or your character is never achieving anything. </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #604660; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.5px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #604660; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.5px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #604660; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.5px;">But you need to ask what else is happening in the scene. If things are going well, your reader might as well go to bed. Make something awful happen. Hang your POV character off a cliff and your reader will turn the page to see what happens next. </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #604660; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.5px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #604660; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.5px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #604660; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.5px;">Okay that’s </span><strong style="background-color: white; color: #604660; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.5px;">Bite 1</strong><span style="background-color: white; color: #604660; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.5px;">. (goal, conflict, disaster) Now let's look at </span><strong style="background-color: white; color: #604660; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.5px;">Bite 2</strong><span style="background-color: white; color: #604660; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.5px;"> . . .</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #604660; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.5px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #604660; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.5px;" /><strong style="background-color: white; color: #604660; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.5px;">Bite 2</strong><span style="background-color: white; color: #604660; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.5px;"> has the three parts Reaction, Dilemma, and Decision. Why? Because when you've just been hit with a setback, you don’t just rush out and try something new. You've got to recover. That's basic psychology.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #604660; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.5px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #604660; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.5px;" /><strong style="background-color: white; color: #604660; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.5px;">Reaction:</strong><span style="background-color: white; color: #604660; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.5px;"> </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #604660; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.5px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #604660; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.5px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #604660; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.5px;">A Reaction is the emotional follow-through to a Disaster. When something awful happens, you're staggering for awhile, off-balance, out of kilter. show your POV character reacting viscerally to their Disaster. </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #604660; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.5px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #604660; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.5px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #604660; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.5px;">Show them hurting. Give your reader a chance to hurt with your characters. This is not a time for action, it's a time for re-action. Eventually, your POV character needs to get a grip. To take stock. To look for options. That let’s us to…</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #604660; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.5px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #604660; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.5px;" /><strong style="background-color: white; color: #604660; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.5px;">Dilemma:</strong><span style="background-color: white; color: #604660; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.5px;"> </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #604660; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.5px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #604660; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.5px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #604660; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.5px;">A Dilemma is a situation with no good options. If your Disaster was a real Disaster, there aren't any easy choices. Your POV character must have a real dilemma. This gives your reader a chance to worry, which is good. Your reader must be wondering what can possibly happen next. Let your POV character work through the choices. Eventually, let them come to the least-bad option . . .</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #604660; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.5px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #604660; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.5px;" /><strong style="background-color: white; color: #604660; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.5px;">Decision:</strong><span style="background-color: white; color: #604660; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.5px;"> </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #604660; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.5px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #604660; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.5px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #604660; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.5px;">A Decision is the act of making a choice among several options. This is important, because it lets your POV character become proactive again. People who never make decisions are boring people. They wait around for somebody else to decide. </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #604660; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.5px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #604660; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.5px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #604660; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.5px;">So make your character decide, and make it a good decision. Make it one your reader can respect. Make it risky, but make it have a chance of working. Or if you make it a bad decision, make sure your reader knows why your character is doing it. Do that, and your reader will have to turn the page, because now your POV character has a new Goal. </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #604660; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.5px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #604660; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.5px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #604660; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.5px;">So: goal, conflict, disaster…followed by…reaction, dilemma, decision.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #604660; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.5px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #604660; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.5px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #604660; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.5px;">I find this most useful if I’m struggling with a scene. </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #604660; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.5px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #604660; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.5px;" /><strong style="background-color: white; color: #604660; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.5px;">NB</strong><span style="background-color: white; color: #604660; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.5px;">: Your bite’s don’t have to follow one by one, they can be interspersed with the other scenes…other character’s POV etc… to add suspense. E.g. The reaction to the disaster can be held off as we flash over to another character, this leaves the first character in a state of disaster and the reader wanting to know what happens next.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #604660; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.5px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #604660; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.5px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #604660; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.5px;">Little example below, see if you can spot the pattern: goal, conflict, disaster… reaction, dilemma, decision</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #604660; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.5px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #604660; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.5px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #604660; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.5px;">e.g. </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #604660; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.5px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #604660; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.5px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #604660; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.5px;">Bob pressed harder on the accelerator, he had to get to the hospital before Meredith gave birth or she’d never forgive him. </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #604660; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.5px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #604660; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.5px;">Without indicating an SUV in the next lane swerved in front of him. Bob slammed on his brakes and swore out loud, berating the other driver.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #604660; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.5px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #604660; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.5px;">The impatient SUV swerved lanes again and Bob’s eyes widened as he watched helplessly as the car behind the SUV failed to slow in time. Metal crashed and screeched as the two car’s collided. Bob’s foot hit the breaks again, as the cars slid partway into his lane.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #604660; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.5px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #604660; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.5px;">Bob was trembling as his car came to a stop. He stared in horror at the mangled cars beside him. </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #604660; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.5px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #604660; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.5px;">Shit, what was he going to do now? He should stop and check to see if anyone was hurt, call an ambulance, and wait to make a statement. He glance at his watch, but damn it he needed to get to the hospital. </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #604660; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.5px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #604660; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.5px;">Reluctantly, he pulled around the smash and onto the shoulder. Parking the car, he opened his door while dialling 111, he needed to check for survivors.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #604660; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.5px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #604660; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.5px;" /><strong style="background-color: white; color: #604660; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.5px;">Goal</strong><span style="background-color: white; color: #604660; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.5px;">: hospital before baby born</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #604660; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.5px;" /><strong style="background-color: white; color: #604660; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.5px;">Conflict</strong><span style="background-color: white; color: #604660; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.5px;">: Stupid SUV in pulling in front & him swearing</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #604660; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.5px;" /><strong style="background-color: white; color: #604660; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.5px;">Disaster</strong><span style="background-color: white; color: #604660; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.5px;">: accident</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #604660; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.5px;" /><strong style="background-color: white; color: #604660; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.5px;">Reaction</strong><span style="background-color: white; color: #604660; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.5px;">: shock at accident</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #604660; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.5px;" /><strong style="background-color: white; color: #604660; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.5px;">Dilemma</strong><span style="background-color: white; color: #604660; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.5px;">: help or hospital</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #604660; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.5px;" /><strong style="background-color: white; color: #604660; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.5px;">Decision</strong><span style="background-color: white; color: #604660; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.5px;">: stay to help (this could well lead to the next conflict as he’s not going to be late to hospital)</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #604660; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.5px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #604660; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.5px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #604660; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.5px;">Anyway that’s a little look at scene structure. </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #604660; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.5px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #604660; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.5px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #604660; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.5px;">I suggest you go to </span><a href="http://www.advancedfictionwriting.com/articles/writing-the-perfect-scene/" style="background-color: white; color: #c31583; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.5px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Advance Fiction Writing for more </a><span style="background-color: white; color: #604660; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.5px;">– Randy even breaks it down lower, the pieces within the pieces.</span><br />
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On top of all that, it goes almost without saying, if this doesn't work for you - don't do it! Writers have their own ways of doing things, this may not be the way for you. To be honest I don't really go through this as I work on a scene, the time I find it most valuable is if I'm stuck or if a scene isn't working.</div>
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Happy Writing.</div>
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Louise Delamorehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01495158440312144559noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7518620783976372371.post-52253209501779580362014-09-30T08:00:00.000+13:002014-09-30T08:00:01.383+13:00The power of small words<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
I read an interesting <a href="http://www.npr.org/blogs/health/2014/09/01/344043763/our-use-of-little-words-can-uh-reveal-hidden-interests">article</a> the other day about what our use of little words can reveal about us.<br />
<a href="http://www.npr.org/blogs/health/2014/09/01/344043763/our-use-of-little-words-can-uh-reveal-hidden-interests">Our Use Of Little Words Can, uh, Reveal Hidden Interests</a>.<br />
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The article talked about how the author was at a speed dating event and became fascinated by the volume of sound - all those words in one place, then about what the people were saying. The author spoke to<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"> a <span style="background-color: white; line-height: 24px;">psychologist, James Pennebacker, who is interested in our use of pronouns and function words (e.g. </span></span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 24px;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">The. This. Though. I. And. An. There. That. ...). </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 24px;">People generally don't listen to pronoun & function words, and most writing coaches will tell you they don't read them either. We know they're there but we let ourselves skim them. People focus on the important words. This allows us to process information much faster.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 24px;">e.g I was in a swimming competition and I won first prize. -- the words the listener is interested in are: </span></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 24px;">swimming competition </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 24px;">won first prize. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 24px;">So if we mostly ignore these words, what was </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 24px;">Pennebacker's interest? </span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 24px;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">What he found after years of research was quite revealing. First let's look at what he learnt as it relates to speed dating. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #111111; line-height: 1.5;">This is not because similar people are attracted to each other, Pennebaker says; people can be very different. It's that when we are around people that we have a genuine interest in, our language subtly shifts. </span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 1.5;">"When two people are paying close attention, they use language in the same way," he says. "And it's one of these things that humans do automatically."</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 24px;">What about more generally...</span></span></div>
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Pennebaker has counted words to better understand lots of things. He's looked at lying, at leadership, at who will recover from trauma.</div>
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But some of his most interesting work has to do with power dynamics. He says that by analyzing language you can easily tell who among two people has power in a relationship, and their relative social status.</div>
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"It's amazingly simple," Pennebaker says, "Listen to the relative use of the word "I."</div>
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What you find is completely different from what most people would think. The person with the higher status uses the word "I" less.</div>
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To demonstrate this, Pennebaker pointed to some of his own email, a batch written long before he began studying status.</div>
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First he shares an email written by one of his undergraduate students, a woman named Pam:</div>
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Dear Dr. Pennebaker:</div>
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<strong style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">I</strong> was part of your Introductory Psychology class last semester.<strong style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> I</strong> have enjoyed your lectures and <strong style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">I've</strong>learned so much. <strong style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">I</strong> received an email from you about doing some research with you. Would there be a time for <strong style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">me</strong> to come by and talk about this?</div>
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Now consider Pennebaker's response:</div>
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Dear Pam -</div>
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This would be great. This week isn't good because of a trip. How about next Tuesday between 9 and 10:30. It will be good to see you.</div>
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Pam, the lowly undergraduate, used "I" many times, while Pennebaker didn't use it at all.</div>
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Now consider this email Pennebaker wrote to a famous professor.</div>
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Dear Famous Professor:</div>
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The reason<strong style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> I'm</strong> writing is that <strong style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">I'm </strong>helping to put together a conference on [a particular topic]. <strong style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">I</strong> have been contacting a large group of people and many have specifically asked if you were attending. <strong style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">I</strong>would absolutely love it if you could come... <strong style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">I</strong> really hope you can make it.</div>
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Jamie Pennebaker</div>
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And the return email from Famous Professor:</div>
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Good to hear from you. Congratulations on the conference. The idea of a reunion is a nice one ... and the conference idea will provide us with a semiformal way of catching up with one another's current research.... Isn't there any way to get the university to dig up a few thousand dollars to defray travel expenses for the conference?</div>
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Pennebaker says that when he encountered these emails he was shocked to find that he himself obeyed this rule. He says he thought of himself as a very egalitarian person, and assumed he would never talk to people differently because of their status.</div>
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In fact, since this article first ran, Pennebaker has used his big data computer analysis to look at a wide range of new questions.</div>
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He's become a kind of literary detective, using the program to determine if a lost play was written by Shakespeare. (Results of that search should be published soon.)</div>
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He's also trying to figure out if function words can predict students' performance in college through an analysis of 25,000 admissions essays.</div>
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And he published an <a href="http://jls.sagepub.com/content/early/2014/03/26/0261927X14526993.abstract" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4774cc; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">entire paper</a> on the use of the filler words — um, like, uh, I mean and you know. One of the things that he found was that the use of these words — in addition to their function of annoying older people — was associated with conscientiousness.</div>
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Pennebaker has several other projects underway as well — using our simplest words as a window into our souls.</div>
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Very cool game I had to share. I confess it's sitting on my kitchen bench waiting to be opened - I can't wait.<div>
Card game: <a href="http://www.marryingmrdarcy.com/">Marrying Mr. Darcy</a>.</div>
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Some very cool advances in technology I thought I'd post on today.<br />
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1. <a href="http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-28660904">Origami Robots</a>:<br />
These crazy self-folding/self-constructing robots are inspired by Origami.<br />
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Check out the <a href="http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-28660904">video</a>.<br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Prof Wood, who is also part of <span style="color: #4a7194;"><span style="line-height: 16px;"><b>Harvard's Wyss Institute for biologically inspired design</b></span></span> said there were a huge number of applications for devices that self-fold.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"Imagine self-deploying structures - maybe shelters or structures for space exploration or for satellites," he told BBC News.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"Things where the logistics are difficult, like humanitarian aid in war zones." </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helmet, Freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 1.077em;"> "</span></div>
2. <a href="http://arstechnica.com/science/2014/08/ibm-researchers-make-a-chip-full-of-artificial-neurons/">Computer Chip full of artificial neurons.</a><br />
Computer are fast when it comes to a lot of calculations, but there are some things the human brain can do better, but it maybe we are about to be outstripped.<br />
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I'm going to give a longer quote here: "<span style="background-color: white; color: #263034; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;">Part of the reason is that both the architecture and behavior of neurons and transistors are radically different. It's possible to program software that incorporates neuron-like behavior, but the underlying mismatch makes the software relatively inefficient. </span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #263034; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;"> A team of scientists at Cornell University and IBM Research have gotten together to design a chip that's fundamentally different: an asynchronous collection of thousands of small processing cores, each capable of the erratic spikes of activity and complicated connections that are typical of neural behavior. When hosting a neural network, the chip is remarkably power efficient. And the researchers say their architecture can scale arbitrarily large, raising the prospect of a neural network supercomputer.</span><br />
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Conclusion: Together these things give the Transformers. Maybe one day we really will see Bumblebee and Optimus Prime - the thinking self-constructing robots of fiction could be made real.<br />
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Have you heard of Weird Al Yankovic? If you haven't now the time to find out :)<br />
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He does marvellous parodies of popular songs. This one has to be my favourite - and I'm sure all the other writers and editors out there will agree with me :) <br />
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Sorry - no real post this week. I've got a cold and my brain isn't up to it.</div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">I read a <a href="http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-27903827">fascinating article on the BBC</a>, it's about the painter <span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="line-height: 18px;">Christopher Nevinson. What's interesting is the way this artist's view of war changed the longer he was there. The writer ties it to his own experiences as a war correspondent, which is also fascinating. War changes people there is no doubt, but this is such a visual representation of that change.</span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">This picture was done in 1915. All sharp angles and energy. It's modern and clean. It's true one of the soldiers is dead, but he's not the focus and the angles oddly dehumanise.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small; line-height: 18px;">Compare the above to this, faceless, nameless real men lying cast aside in a muddy wasteland. There is nothing that suggests hope or energy or even a reason for the deaths that the viewer. </span><br />
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Louise Delamorehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01495158440312144559noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7518620783976372371.post-75751642704295852562014-07-02T20:53:00.000+12:002014-07-02T20:53:00.042+12:00Ingredients for a powerful scene<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">I thought for the next few months - until it bores me, or I forget - I would make the first week of the month writing craft week. For the next few let's breakdown a scene - think of it as the 'Ingredients of a powerful scene'. What bits and pieces, tricks and tips, can help make a scene powerful and engaging? </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">To which I reply: that’s not what makes romance easy to write, it’s
what makes it ever so tricksy. If readers know how a book is going to end
before they even open the pages, then our jobs as writers is that much more
difficult because we have to convince them the book is worth reading. We
have to make the book about the journey as much as about the conclusion.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Think about the effort you put into the opening lines of the book, whilst
quite the same level of effort may not be needed at each scene you should at
least be thinking about it. (Remember that not everything has to be done the first time through - editing is the time to make your book shine).</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU"><b><u><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Examples</span></u></b></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU"><b><u><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span></u></b></span></div>
<div class="calibre2" style="margin: 12pt 0cm; text-align: left;">
<span lang="EN-AU"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Let's look at some examples. Below are the openings to four sequential scenes from <i>THE UNSUNG HERO by</i> <i>Suzanne
Brockmann.</i> I haven't chosen the beginning of the book but the middle-ish, (chapter 8), this is to show that even though the reader is already in the story the writer hasn't stopped anchoring and re-engaging..<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<div class="calibre2" style="margin: 12pt 0cm; text-align: left;">
<span lang="EN-AU"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">##<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="background: white; color: black;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Just kick aside the
laundry, Kelly had said. It seemed easy enough in theory. Execution, however,
was slightly more difficult. Because it seemed to Tom as if most of the laundry
that was scattered about the room was underwear. Lacy, silky, completely
feminine underwear.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<div class="calibre2" style="margin: 12pt 0cm; text-align: left;">
<span lang="EN-AU" style="background: white; color: blue;"><i><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">[Anchoring: POV - Tom’s, place - Kelly’s
bedroom (because where else would a woman leave her underwear all over the
place]<o:p></o:p></span></i></span></div>
<div class="calibre2" style="margin: 12pt 0cm; text-align: left;">
<span lang="EN-AU" style="background: white; color: blue;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><i>[Re-engaging: Tom’s
vulnerable/awkward, also a little humour, we want to see what he’ll do next. Go
in her room and finish his task, or give up and try again later, or get
distracted from his task]</i><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<div class="calibre2" style="margin: 12pt 0cm; text-align: left;">
<span lang="EN-AU" style="background: white; color: black;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">##<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<div class="calibre2" style="margin: 12pt 0cm; text-align: left;">
<span lang="EN-AU" style="background: white; color: black;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">The printer fell
silent, and Tom shut down Kelly’s computer. As he crossed to the door, he had
to shake another piece of silk and lace from his foot. Cursing, he took the
pictures he’d printed out into the hallway, down the stairs, and into the
dining room, only to find Charles and Joe smack in the middle of another
argument.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<div class="calibre2" style="margin: 12pt 0cm; text-align: left;">
<span lang="EN-AU" style="background: white; color: blue;"><i><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">[Anchoring: Still Tom’s POV, but
we’ve moved to the dining room]<o:p></o:p></span></i></span></div>
<div class="calibre2" style="margin: 12pt 0cm; text-align: left;">
<span lang="EN-AU" style="background: white; color: blue;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><i>[Re-engages with clear
conflict, the argument which Tom’s walked into – What’s it about & again how
will Tom respond] </i><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<div class="calibre2" style="margin: 12pt 0cm; text-align: left;">
<span lang="EN-AU" style="background: white; color: black;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">##<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<div class="calibre2" style="margin: 12pt 0cm; text-align: left;">
<span lang="EN-AU" style="background: white; color: black;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">After hearing at the
farm stand that Mrs. Ellis had seen her father and Joe playing chess in the
lobby of the Baldwin’s Bridge Hotel, Kelly had been in a real rush to get home.
But now that she was here, she paused just outside the door. She could see Tom
through the screen, sitting at the kitchen table, surrounded by piles of papers
and file folders.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<div class="calibre2" style="margin: 12pt 0cm; text-align: left;">
<span lang="EN-AU" style="background: white; color: blue;"><i><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">[Anchoring: Kelly’s POV, kitchen
of Kelly’s home]<o:p></o:p></span></i></span></div>
<div class="calibre2" style="margin: 12pt 0cm; text-align: left;">
<span lang="EN-AU" style="background: white; color: blue;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><i>[Re-engaging: well she
rushed there so we know something urgent is driving her, but she’s paused,
what’s important enough to change her action] </i><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<div class="calibre2" style="margin: 12pt 0cm; text-align: left;">
<span lang="EN-AU" style="background: white; color: black;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">##<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<div class="calibre2" style="margin: 12pt 0cm; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span class="apple-style-span"><span lang="EN-AU" style="background: white; color: black;">“She isn’t going to
show.”</span></span><span lang="EN-AU" style="background: white; color: black;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="background: white; color: black;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">David glanced up from
putting a new roll of film into his camera to see that Brandon still had on his
jeans and T-shirt. “She’ll be here soon. Get changed, will you?”<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="background: white; color: black;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">“No way, bro. Not
until she’s here. No point to it. I’ve got places to go, people to see—Sharon,
that redheaded cocktail waitress who works the pool the same shift I do? She
dropped a major hint she was going to go see the Jimmy Buffett wannabe over at
the Marina Grill tonight. She’s definitely mine if I want her.” Bran wandered
over to David’s drawing table. “Whoa. Is this Mallory?”<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="background: white; color: black;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">“Yeah.” David had done
some preliminary sketches this afternoon, from memory.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="background: white; color: black;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">“You’re using her just
for her face, right? I mean, this body—that’s whatchamacallit… artistic
license, right?”<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="background: white; color: black;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">David adjusted the
white sheet he’d spread out on the bare wooden floor. “Nope.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="background: white;"><i><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="color: blue; font-size: small;">[Anchoring: David’s POV, this is
dialogue so it takes a few lines longer but we’re clearly wherever David takes
photos/ draws (could be a studio or his home, but it gives </span><span style="color: blue;">the</span><span style="color: blue; font-size: small;"> reader enough that they're not lost)]<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="EN-AU" style="background: white;"><i><span style="color: blue; font-size: small;">[Re-engages – I'm going </span><span style="color: blue;">to</span><span style="color: blue; font-size: small;"> leave you to think about this one :) ] </span></i></span><span lang="EN-AU" style="color: blue;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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This week's instalment of <a href="http://www.covercafe.com/contest/2013/ccc-res13.shtml">Cover Cafe's</a> romance cover competition is... <a href="http://www.covercafe.com/contest/2013/WO-res13.html">Worst Romance Covers</a>.<br />
<a href="http://louisewrites.blogspot.co.nz/2014/06/best-cover-competition.html">Last week</a> we looked at the best - this week we're covering the other side of the scale.<br />
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This is the category that authors (myself included) dread being nominated for. When I get that email and my finger always hovers nervously before I can bring myself to open the cover art file. So far I've been able to breath a sigh of relief. These poor authors are less lucky...<br />
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The full list, first to tenth is on the <a href="http://www.covercafe.com/contest/2013/WO-res13.html">Cover Cafe</a> site, but here are a few to wet your appetite for... less.<br />
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The scary trend for this year is started with this cover - computer generated people. I'm sorry but they all just look weird and plastic.</div>
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<i>Wild Things Lost</i><br />
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More plastic people, this time they're both wearing wigs, and what's with his expression he looks like he hasn't a thought in his head other than staring weirdly at her chest.<br />
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<i>Sweet Delight</i><br />
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Which really isn't much of a sweet delight. I like most of the commenter's can't get past the fake tattoo - in fact it's so bad I didn't even immediately realise it was a tattoo.<br />
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<span style="background-color: #f7f7f7; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: justify;">Cover Cafe's Mary Lynne: "Ah, the higher glories of the Worst category. How can I choose? Should I opt for the amateurism of</span><cite style="background-color: #f7f7f7; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;">Entangled</cite><span style="background-color: #f7f7f7; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: justify;">? The overly busy bodies on </span><cite style="background-color: #f7f7f7; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;">Perfect Mate</cite><span style="background-color: #f7f7f7; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: justify;"> and</span><cite style="background-color: #f7f7f7; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;">Retribution</cite><span style="background-color: #f7f7f7; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: justify;">? The creepy android-like people of </span><cite style="background-color: #f7f7f7; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;">The Search is Over, On Thin Ice, and Lost</cite><span style="background-color: #f7f7f7; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: justify;">? The use and abuse of babies and dogs on </span><cite style="background-color: #f7f7f7; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;">Baby Papers and Animal Attraction</cite><span style="background-color: #f7f7f7; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: justify;">? The eerie shininess of the man's body on </span><cite style="background-color: #f7f7f7; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;">Desperately Seeking Fireman</cite><span style="background-color: #f7f7f7; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: justify;">? They are all pretty awful. But there is just so much wrong on</span><cite style="background-color: #f7f7f7; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;">Sweet Delight</cite><span style="background-color: #f7f7f7; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: justify;">. There's the way the man's body proportions don't quite work--that torso looks a bit too Photoshopped. There's that godawful paw that's just slapped on the image. But let's face it. The guy's wearing a Speedo. In today's day and age, that earns you the worst label no matter what</span></div>
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It's that time of year again. The <a href="http://www.covercafe.com/">Cover Cafe</a>'s romance covers competition results are in.<br />
This week the the winner - next week you guess it the cringe contenders.<br />
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<b><a href="http://www.covercafe.com/contest/2013/AV-res13.html">Avant Garde</a>:</b><br />
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<u>In First Place:</u></div>
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<i>Lady of Ashes</i></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><i> </i><i>Pieces For You</i> is one of two covers tied for 7th place. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">I liked this one because the colours stand out and it's just that little bit different. </span></div>
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In first place in the contemporary category:</div>
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<i>Horizon</i></div>
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Okay, it's the loverly flame dress.</div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: justify;">Elyse found humor in the flaming dress: “The dress, of course! It's mesmerizing! Although I'm a bit worried the heroine will be scorched, I'll assume she has special powers to protect her legs from those flames!”</span></div>
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<i>Water Witch</i> (2nd place) has a lovely sensual feel, <br />
and the colours on <i>Carolina Girl</i> (12th place) are so evocative. </div>
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First Place in the Historical Category:<br />
<i>Forsaken Dreams</i><br />
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I think it's the dress that wins this one as well. It almost looks like the inside of a paua/abalone shell. Plus there's all that misty mystery.<br />
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<i>Clockwork Princess</i> came in third, and I have to say I loved it. It's the ideal bookworm cover :) the magic of the book takes centre stage and the rest of the cover keeps pace.<br />
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<span style="background-color: white;">Caro said: "The open book with the light coming out got me right away. That's what I feel every time I open a book - excitement to see a story shine."</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">Sheila S.: "There are so many things going on in this cover that make you want to read the book. Also love the dress she is wearing."</span></div>
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<i>Winter Queen</i><br />
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The Telegraph is running a fun survey at the moment on what is the greatest literary put-down.<br />
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Will Rhett Butler's "My dear, I don't give a damn."<br />
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Beat out Mt Darcy's "She is tolerable, but not handsome enough to tempt me."<br />
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head over and cast your vote <a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/booknews/10869386/Frankly-my-dear-Rhett-Butlers-put-down-is-greatest-of-all.html">here</a>.<br />
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The full list:<br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">1. "My dear, I don't give a damn." - Gone With The Wind, Margaret Mitchell - (Character: Rhett Butler)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">2. "To lose one parent may be regarded as a misfortune, Mr Worthing, to lose both looks like carelessness" - The Importance Of Being Earnest, Oscar Wilde - (Character: Lady Bracknell)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">3. "May your genitals sprout wings and fly away." - Small Gods, Terry Pratchett - (Character: Om - the tortoise)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">4. "If you will forgive me for being personal, I do not like your face." - Murder On The Orient Express, Agatha Christie - (Character: Hercule Poirot)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">5. "She is tolerable; but not handsome enough to tempt me" - Pride And Prejudice, Jane Austen - (Character: Mr Darcy)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">6. "You are the last man in the world I could ever be prevailed upon to marry." - Pride And Prejudice, Jane Austen - (Character: Elizabeth Bennett)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">7. "If looks could kill, you'd soon find out that yours couldn't." - After Claude, Iris Owens - (Character: Harriet)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">8. "The tartness of his face sours ripe grapes." - Coriolanus, William Shakespeare - (Character: Menenius)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">9. "The simplicity of your character makes you exquisitely incomprehensible to me." - The Importance Of being Earnest, Oscar Wilde - (Character: Gwendolen)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">10. "I misjudged you... You're not a moron. You're only a case of arrested development." - The Sun Also Rises, Ernest Hemingway - (Character: Harvey Stone)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 1.48em;"><span style="color: #282828;">There are a few like I like that have been missed from the survey that I rather like. Here are my two </span>favourites. Anything you think is missing?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: CharisSILRegular, Georgia, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24px;">“I desire that we be better strangers.” - </span><em style="border: 0px; font-family: CharisSILRegular, Georgia, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">As You Like It</em><span style="font-family: CharisSILRegular, Georgia, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24px;">, William Shakespeare</span></div>
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Cecily: This is no time for wearing the shallow mask of manners. When I see a spade I call it a spade.</div>
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Gwendolen: I am glad to say that I have never seen a spade. It is obvious that our social spheres have been widely different. – <em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The Importance of Being Earnest</em>, Oscar Wilde</div>
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Louise Delamorehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01495158440312144559noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7518620783976372371.post-27798642496228753192014-05-27T07:30:00.000+12:002014-05-27T07:30:00.048+12:00Into the depths of the author's brain<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
I read great post the other day by <a href="http://www.lydiakang.com/">Lydia Kang</a> on <a href="http://www.buzzfeed.com/kayepublicity/weird-things-that-authors-do-fkhg">Buzzfeed</a><span id="goog_1845577875"></span><span id="goog_1845577876"></span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/"></a> & I just want to dump it out in it's totality for you - it really hit me close to the bone - but I'm only going to give you the skeleton - I really think you should read the <a href="http://www.buzzfeed.com/kayepublicity/weird-things-that-authors-do-fkhg">original</a>, this is just a selection from the list. In fact, I've omitted numbers 1 & 2 just to taunt you :) <br />
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<span class="buzz_superlist_number_inline" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; display: inline; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;">4.</span> Pretend we don’t get upset by reviews, when we do.</h2>
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Via <a href="http://faithbringer.deviantart.com/art/Rage-Mode-293756778" rel="nofollow" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #999999; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">faithbringer.deviantart.com</a></div>
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<span class="buzz_superlist_number_inline" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; display: inline; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;">5.</span> How we deal with #4</h2>
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<span class="buzz_superlist_number_inline" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; display: inline; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;">7.</span> When we just wrote an awesome scene:</h2>
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<span class="buzz_superlist_number_inline" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; display: inline; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;">8.</span> When we reread the scene later and realize it sucks:</h2>
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<span class="buzz_superlist_number_inline" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; display: inline; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;">12.</span> When we start writing the shiny new idea:</h2>
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<span class="buzz_superlist_number_inline" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; display: inline; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;">13.</span> When we’re halfway through writing the shiny new idea:</h2>
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<br /><span class="buzz_superlist_number_inline" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; display: inline; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;">16.</span><span style="background-color: transparent;"> How some people see us:</span></h2>
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Via <a href="http://www.uproxx.com/tv/2013/03/amy-poehler-and-tina-fey-respond-to-taylor-swift-literally-sending-them-to-hell-forever/" rel="nofollow" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #999999; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">uproxx.com</a></div>
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<span class="buzz_superlist_number_inline" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; display: inline; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;">18.</span> How people react when we tell them about our newest, latest, craziest novel idea.</h2>
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Thanks Lydia Kang who compiled the list & Buzzfeed for putting it out there</div>
Louise Delamorehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01495158440312144559noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7518620783976372371.post-68306706708831317322014-05-20T06:30:00.000+12:002014-05-20T06:30:00.867+12:00Drinkable book<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Official world wide release for EMBRACED BY FIRE.<br />
This means it'll be available print & eBook from retailers other than Amazon, so non-Amazonians now's your chance :)<br />
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Now on with our scheduled program...<br />
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Over the years I've linked to some very fancy books:<br />
<a href="http://louisewrites.blogspot.co.nz/2011/11/books-as-fashion.html">Books as fashion</a><br />
<a href="http://louisewrites.blogspot.co.nz/2012/06/crazy-books.html">Crazy designs</a> - like a recipe book printed on sheets of fresh pasta<br />
<a href="http://louisewrites.blogspot.co.nz/2012/06/making-crazy-books.html">Edible books</a><br />
A <a href="http://louisewrites.blogspot.co.nz/2014/03/vatican-library-6-way-book.html">16th century book that opened 6</a> ways<br />
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But this next book though is something special. It provides safe drinking water. The book itself is a guid to safe drinking water - the kicker - the pages can be removed and used as filters, thus creating safe drinking water. <i><a href="http://www.waterislife.com/index.php">Water is Life</a> </i>is a charity organisation that focuses on safe drinking water in the developing world. This book is a project that seeks to combine an educational resource with a practical tool.<br />
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The book has enough pages to last about 4 years (depending on usage). So, next time you take a nice cool drink of water, think about the people who aren't so lucky. Then, raise your glass to the people who are trying to make a difference (or <a href="http://www.waterislife.com/index.php">become one </a>of them.)<br />
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(<a href="http://www.cnet.com/au/news/drinkable-book-provides-safe-drinking-water/">Full article here</a>)<br />
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Louise Delamorehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01495158440312144559noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7518620783976372371.post-50918896300006066832014-05-13T06:30:00.000+12:002014-05-13T06:30:00.862+12:00Weird Covers<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Anyone who's hung out on my blog for a while knows I like cover posts :)<br />
<a href="http://www.boredpanda.com/funny-book-titles-covers/">Bored Panda</a> complied a list of 40 that caught my attention that seemed perfect - weird covers. Here are a few that really caught my attention.<br />
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Apologies in advance if anything here goes a little to far for you.<br />
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Louise Delamorehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01495158440312144559noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7518620783976372371.post-50233549214085660892014-05-05T22:08:00.000+12:002014-05-05T22:08:08.167+12:00Library Love<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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According to a recent study going to the library makes us happy. Or rather a happiness money can't buy. How much money<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">? Happiness equivalent to a <span style="background-color: white; line-height: 30.009000778198242px;">£</span>1,359 pay rise. A least that's the results of a r<a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/304899/Quantifying_and_valuing_the_wellbeing_impacts_of_sport_and_culture.pdf">ecent study</a> commissioned by Britain's Department of Culture, Media & Sport. They wanted to know which activities have positive impact on people's wellbeing. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Another <a href="http://time.com/23693/are-library-users-happier-people/">study shows</a> that libraries make help create stronger communities. They are places to socialise, places to learn, and they are often physically in the heart of a community. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">With eBooks and the internet gaining in popularity libraries are taking a hit. But we need to remember what they bring to our communities. A place to gather, learn, connect with events and people in out communities. Libraries don't just have fiction and non-fiction books, they have noticeboards, guest speakers, and helpful librarians. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Librarians you say, but those ladies are scary. So not true. Not only are not all librarians women, they are certainly not scary, they are people who love books and love knowledge and they want to share that with other. Don't believe me, here's a list of <a href="http://www.buzzfeed.com/jul13hong/10-reasons-why-librarians-are-awesome">9 reasons librarians are great</a>. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"> So the question you need to ask yourself is...have you visited you local library lately?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">This blog post sound a bit biased? Well, it would, written by an ex-librarian romance writer bookworm :)</span></div>
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Louise Delamorehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01495158440312144559noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7518620783976372371.post-91324541627144319012014-04-29T07:30:00.000+12:002014-04-29T07:30:01.380+12:00The joys of re-reading<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">This <a href="http://www.bbc.com/culture/story/20140305-are-you-a-re-reader">BBC article</a> caught my attention because I am, I so am, a re-reader that is. In fact, right now I’m re-reading several of Linda Howard’s suspense novels. I’ve got a huge stack of new books just crying out to be read, instead I’m nose deep in old favourites.<u></u><u></u></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Maybe there’s a kind of comfort in knowing how they end… a bit like comfort eating? Maybe in a world that’s always changing around us, there is something about the world between the pages that provides security/ stability/ something to rely on. Maybe it’s finding something new each time, enriching the experience? Maybe it’s something I never grew out of; after all kids love hearing the same stories over and over again? Maybe different people are driven by different motivators?<u></u><u></u></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Not all re-readers are the same. Some re-readers make a ritual of it. People who read ‘Lord of the Rings’ or ‘Pride and Prejudice’ religiously every year at a certain time. This isn’t me; I’m more of a haphazard re-reader. I re-read whatever I feel like, whenever I feel like, no real rhyme or reason. Although I have noticed at times of stress my re-read to new ratio goes up.<u></u><u></u></span></div>
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Louise Delamorehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01495158440312144559noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7518620783976372371.post-89376525835497683172014-04-22T05:30:00.000+12:002014-04-22T05:30:02.216+12:00Taking the “intervention” up a notch<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Sometimes friends are concerned, sometimes they’re VERY concerned. So concerned in fact they don’t think sitting down and having a serious chat is going to be enough. A serial drunk driver’s friends took things into their own hands when five convictions didn’t get the message across.<u></u><u></u></span></div>
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Louise Delamorehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01495158440312144559noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7518620783976372371.post-24913977770515741232014-04-15T04:30:00.000+12:002014-04-15T04:30:02.328+12:00Human skin and book binding - what do they have in common?<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">I’ve done a lot of cover posts in the past: good covers, bad covers, weird covers. Never before, however, have I posted anything quite as macabre as <span lang="EN">anthropodermic bibliopegy. The what? The practice of binding books in human skin.<u></u><u></u></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Although hardly a common practice it dates back to at least the 17<sup>th</sup> Century. The technique was used to bind things like anatomy books, last will and testaments, and judicial proceedings (one story tells how the skin of a convicted murderer was used to bind the pages of his trial notes.)<u></u><u></u></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><u></u>· <u></u>In H.P. Lovecraft's horror story "The Hound", the narrator and his friend St John, who are graverobbers, have a collection of macabre artefacts. Amongst them, "A locked portfolio, bound in tanned human skin, held certain unknown and unnameable drawings which it was rumoured Goya had perpetrated but dared not acknowledge."<u></u><u></u></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Two other Harvard library titles, however, are believed to be bound in human skin. A 1597 French translation of Ovid's Metamorphoses , which is annotated with the words "bound in human skin" on its inside cover, according to The Harvard Crimson, and Arsène Houssaye's mediations on the spirit, Des Destinées de L'Ame, which dates to the 1880s.</span></div>
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In honour of the paperback edition I thought I would post a deleted scene -- the original prologue.<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"> <span style="line-height: 19.5px; position: relative;">Although I loved the action of this scene, and the fact we get to see Ryu as a dragon, in the end it was decided because of the time gap between here and the beginning of the story it was better to drop the prologue and go straight into chapter 1. </span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; line-height: 19.5px; position: relative;"><span style="color: #604660; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">His curiosity had got the better of him, again. He’d overheard the guards mention level three, now here he was outside the last secure door debating the wisdom of going further. He stroked a hand over the metal panel, white paint chips catching on his calloused fingertips. Curiosity burned hotter. What were they hiding? </span><br style="color: #604660; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="color: #604660; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"></span><br style="color: #604660; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="color: #604660; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"></span><span style="color: #604660; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Unable to resist, he narrowed his eyes in concentration and set to work on the lock. A tight smile tugged at his lips and excitement thrummed through his blood, the danger making him feel electrifyingly alive, like static against his skin. He changed the angle of the lock picks, his fingers sensitive to the slightest vibration. The empty corridor held its breath as he made short work of the mechanism. The click of the lock disengaging was overloud. He froze, nothing stirred. </span><br style="color: #604660; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="color: #604660; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"></span><br style="color: #604660; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="color: #604660; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"></span><span style="color: #604660; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Ryu Mackay took a steadying breath. His life hadn’t always turned out the way he wanted, but this, </span><em style="color: #604660; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; position: relative;">this</em><span style="color: #604660; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"> made it all worthwhile. This exhilaration, serving his country under the radar, knowing his actions made a difference. His picks vanished back into his pocket and he turned the handle. The door swung open on silent hinges – disturbingly silent for a compound full of squeaky doors.</span><br style="color: #604660; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="color: #604660; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"></span><br style="color: #604660; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="color: #604660; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"></span><span style="color: #604660; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">He slipped into the room and his eyes widened. Horror turned his blood cold. In the centre of the bare concrete block room, sitting on a rough wooden table, were tubes of pale green chemicals surrounded by twisted wires. </span><br style="color: #604660; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="color: #604660; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"></span><br style="color: #604660; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="color: #604660; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"></span><span style="color: #604660; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Bomb! The word exploded in his brain. The red numbers on the timer attached to the front clicked over, 04:23. He had less than five minutes to get the hell out.</span><br style="color: #604660; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="color: #604660; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"></span><br style="color: #604660; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="color: #604660; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"></span><span style="color: #604660; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">“</span><em style="color: #604660; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; position: relative;">Shit!</em><span style="color: #604660; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">” The word was more exhalation than speech.</span><br style="color: #604660; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="color: #604660; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"></span><br style="color: #604660; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="color: #604660; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"></span><span style="color: #604660; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">No time to disable the bomb. Neither his training nor his inherent </span><em style="color: #604660; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; position: relative;">difference </em><span style="color: #604660; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">would stop him dying if he was near that thing when it blew. He was turning even as he realised the only option was to run as if the world were about to be blown apart at his feet, which in fact, it was. He raced for the door.</span><br style="color: #604660; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="color: #604660; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"></span><br style="color: #604660; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="color: #604660; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"></span><span style="color: #604660; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Grabbing the doorframe, he spun himself around the corner. Three quick strides and he was across the landing and shoving open the door to the stairwell. He needed to get out faster than Houdini on a good day.</span><br style="color: #604660; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="color: #604660; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"></span><br style="color: #604660; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="color: #604660; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"></span><span style="color: #604660; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">As the door closed behind him, he heard it: rapid footsteps pounding up the stairs from below. The sound pushed his heart rate even higher than the already adrenaline-surging beat it developed after he saw that little construction of destruction. </span><br style="color: #604660; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="color: #604660; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"></span><br style="color: #604660; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="color: #604660; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"></span><span style="color: #604660; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Ryu began running up the stairs quicker and quieter than the men below. Thank goodness he’d already photographed the illegal importation documents. He slammed his way out of the final set of doors and found himself standing on the roof, five stories up with no external fire escape. He swore silently. Where was a helicopter when you needed one? </span><br style="color: #604660; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="color: #604660; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"></span><br style="color: #604660; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="color: #604660; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"></span><span style="color: #604660; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Standing in the shadows surrounding the exit, he debated his options. His jaw tightened, he hated being caught out like this. He glanced at the sky. The heavy globe of the moon illuminated the compound. If he moved, he’d be a clear target. </span><br style="color: #604660; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="color: #604660; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"></span><br style="color: #604660; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="color: #604660; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"></span><span style="color: #604660; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Unfortunately, like a ticking bomb, time wasn’t on his side. A man’s coarse shout on the other side of the door made up this mind. He’d have to risk being seen. Gritting his teeth in annoyance, he sent his clothes, weapons, and camera into </span><em style="color: #604660; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; position: relative;">Elsewhere</em><span style="color: #604660; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"> and began running. He reached the edge of the roof—and jumped.</span><br style="color: #604660; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="color: #604660; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"></span><br style="color: #604660; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="color: #604660; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"></span><span style="color: #604660; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Air rushed past his face, burning his cheeks. Throwing his arms wide, he released the dragon. With an electric rush, he </span><em style="color: #604660; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; position: relative;">shifted.</em><span style="color: #604660; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"> His wings caught the wind and pulled him upwards. If he was lucky no one would look up and see a giant, copper dragon flying overhead. If he wasn’t, he hoped they mistook him for a dream not an enemy aircraft. </span><br style="color: #604660; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="color: #604660; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"></span><br style="color: #604660; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="color: #604660; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"></span><span style="color: #604660; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">He pushed through the air with powerful wing strokes. His next mission better be an easy one or he’d kick Adrian’s butt. </span><br style="color: #604660; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="color: #604660; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"></span><br style="color: #604660; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="color: #604660; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"></span><span style="color: #604660; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"></span><em style="color: #604660; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; position: relative;">Boom!</em><br style="color: #604660; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="color: #604660; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"></span><br style="color: #604660; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="color: #604660; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"></span><span style="color: #604660; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">The sound and heat of the explosion almost tumbled him out of the sky, only a jerk of his tail and a mighty wrench of his wings kept him airborne. He glanced over his shoulder to see the roof where he had been standing only moments before, shattered and engulfed in flames.</span></span><br />
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First a very cool book from the 16th Century that opens 6 ways. It gives different devotional texts on each unique opening. See a video <a href="http://www.visualnews.com/2014/01/24/rare-book-opens-6-different-ways-reveals-6-different-books/">here</a>. This multi-book was printed in Germany during hte 1550's to 1570s.<br />
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Second bit of trivia: <a href="http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-26676909">The Vatican library is going to digitise its archive with the help of the Japanese</a>. These ancient manuscripts are a vital piece, not just of church history, but of history in general. They include copies of classical Greek and Latin literature as well as mediaeval and Renaissance illumiated works. Eventually the library plans to make it's 82,000 manuscripts available to the public as a result of this work.<br />
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Louise Delamorehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01495158440312144559noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7518620783976372371.post-6918385769775970552014-03-25T05:00:00.000+13:002014-03-25T05:00:00.686+13:00Technology Changes<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Time passes with each slow incremental step. So often we don't even stop to think how our lives have changed, we just deal with the present. This little video reminded me how much even the little things can change in a relatively short space of time.<br />
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Well - that made me feel old. What about you? Old enough to have used a rotary phone, or were you with those kids? :)</div>
Louise Delamorehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01495158440312144559noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7518620783976372371.post-79841838380052339062014-03-18T16:49:00.000+13:002014-03-18T16:49:00.399+13:00Power of opening lines in grammar images<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<a href="http://popchartlab.com/products/a-diagrammatical-dissertation-on-opening-lines-of-notable-novels">Pop Chart Labs</a> have come up with a very cool poster of 25 famous opening lines. The twist... they are written using the Reed-Kellogg system.<br />
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As they say..."F<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px;">rom Cervantes to Faulkner to Pynchon, each sentence has been painstakingly curated and diagrammed by PCL's research team, parsing classical prose by parts of speech and offering a partitioned, color-coded picto-grammatical representation of some of the most famous first words in literary history.</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px;"> "</span><br />
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Check out a bigger image of all the sentences <a href="http://rom%20cervantes%20to%20faulkner%20to%20pynchon%2C%20each%20sentence%20has%20been%20painstakingly%20curated%20and%20diagrammed%20by%20pcl%27s%20research%20team%2C%20parsing%20classical%20prose%20by%20parts%20of%20speech%20and%20offering%20a%20partitioned%2C%20color-coded%20picto-grammatical%20representation%20of%20some%20of%20the%20most%20famous%20first%20words%20in%20literary%20history./">here</a>.<br />
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