January 2011
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"from everywhere" →
[First essay of the popular singer and vocal actress Maaya Sakamoto] ~ item description provided by CDJapan
I want this… for no apparent reason other than a knee-jerk reaction to anything Maaya-related! Mwahahaha!
… though I do wonder, what if… in addition to being a theatre actress, seiyuu, and singer, Maaya Sakamoto becomes a writer? Hmmmm….. ^____^
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Maaya Sakamoto's New Album -[You Can't Catch Me]... →
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Age of Reason: Dalai Lama's 18 Rules for Living →
kategrice:
At the start of the new millennium the Dalai Lama apparently issued eighteen rules for living. 1. Take into account that great love and great achievements involve great risk. 2. When you lose, don’t lose the lesson. 3. Follow the three Rs: 1. Respect for self 2. Respect for others
3. Responsibility for all your actions. 4. Remember that not getting what you...
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Seven Keys to Writing Good Dialogue →
the-write-idea:
By Nathan Bransford
It goes without saying (but watch me say it) that dialogue is one of the very most crucial elements in a novel. Great dialogue can make a novel sing. Bad dialogue can sink it like a stone.
Here are a few ideas on what makes good dialogue work:
1. Good dialogue is not weighed down by exposition.
When the dialogue is carrying exposition and trying to tell...
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“I went out… to buy cigarettes and I figured out how to kill Harold Crick.”
“Buying cigarettes?”
“As I was… when I came out of the store I… it came to me.”
“How?”
“Well, Penny, like anything worth writing, it came inexplicably and without method.”
~ Karen Eiffel to Penny Escher, Stranger Than Fiction