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Sharing Your Story
All of us have a story to tell. How we tell it is perhaps the difference between all of us. Some of us choose to tell it through the art of writing. We mold our words into the frame of our story, crafting it through the fires of our knowledge and heart, and then release Continue reading
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World-building Part 5 – Geomorphology (planetary features)
Note this is a series: Part One, Part Two, Part Three, and Part Four. A note for my readers, especially those interested in my paper mache planet project: This post in particular describes how I created my own tectonic plate maps, determined the geological features of my own planet including major rivers and lakes; I’ve Continue reading
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Experimenting with a proto-type
This is just an update of my planet project. My paper mache planet will need another layer of paper mache to smooth it down a bit more. I also need to create a stand for it to ready it for painting. The worst problem with the paper mache is how to do the entire ball Continue reading
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Paper Mache Planet Part 1
The first part of my planet project has begun! I wanted to include an update of this project this week. My desktop computer is still down, and although my laptop is a bit finicky, it’s still useable, so I’m updating from it for this week. I spent most of the time since my last update Continue reading
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Writing software
I’m currently testing this writing program: Scrivener So far I’m majorly impressed with its design, especially it’s easy to use functionality. First off, the major strengths of Scrivener is it’s organization abilities. On the left hand side of the program is the “binder,” where it’s wonderfully easy to organize the scenes of a writing project Continue reading
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Diversity: Race
At Racebending.com, the article, “Frustration of an Asian American Whedonite,” expressed in vivid detail one of my biggest qualms with the Firefly universe – a show I dearly love. Here is the fusion of Asian and American culture in the future, but there is no actual representation of Asian people outside of a few scarce Continue reading
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World-building Part 4 – Atmospheres and Natural Cycles
Note this is a series: Part One, Part Two, and Part Three. In order to have a planet house life, an atmosphere is absolutely essential, unless the sentient species is capable of enclosed domes, which even then they’d still have an atmosphere within that enclosed dome. This brings us to the fourth part of building Continue reading