tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-84665140343847450822024-02-20T08:59:15.717-08:00You Don't Want to be Here - Go AwayGo away! This place is filled with weird stuff that might make you laugh so leave. You're not leaving? Fine, be stubborn but if you're staying you might as well check out my stories, funny photos, and random writing tips.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00712567729539976796noreply@blogger.comBlogger56125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8466514034384745082.post-89259814007921467732015-01-28T10:08:00.001-08:002015-01-28T10:10:40.693-08:00And then Stuff Happened: How to Figure out the MiddleHello humanoids. Have you ever started writing something absolutely brilliant and get a few chapters into it and then realize you have no idea what to happen next? You have an idea for the ending and you've written the beginning but you have no middle. This problem happens to me often. Its annoying. Over the years I've figured out how to fix it. My suggestions may not work for you but they might help.<br />
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1. Make an outline. This is something I hate doing. I find outlining boring and I rarely end up using it but sometimes it can help. If you like planning it might do wonders for you. Even if you don't end up using the outline it'll at least give you ideas for a middle.<br />
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2. Ask yourself, does the beginning work? Do I really want it to end that way? How many Red Hots can I stick in my mouth at one time? That last question isn't really necessary. Sometimes when you write you need to rewrite. Maybe your beginning is the problem. Maybe you need to change something. Reread what you've written so far and see if there's anything that should be fixed. If you change somethings you'll get ideas for your middle.<br />
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3. Be evil. Grab a piece of paper or open a new document and just write down awful things that you could do to your characters. Figure out what obstacles you could give them to make their goal harder. Don't be afraid to hurt your characters. Maybe getting shot in the leg forces your main character to go to an underground city to get help where they run into their evil twin. You don't have to use everything you write down. I definitely don't. I'm never going to have my characters get abducted by aliens, drowned in coffee, and then revived by a group of magical bunnies. I have used some of it though, such as the main character getting arrested (she totally had it coming. I'm amazed she went as long as she did without getting caught) or finding out their best friend is an assassin. Have fun with this. You never know what might happen.<br />
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4. Do you need to just shelf this idea? Sometimes that does happen. Its happened to me several times. You may not want to put away this idea but it might be for the best. Maybe you'll get a new and better idea. Maybe one day you'll return to it and know exactly what you need to change. Or maybe you just need to take a break from this idea for a little while. So if you've been struggling with this for a long time maybe it is time to move on. Find a new idea. You never know, your next idea might be the one you publish.<br />
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Hopefully one of those helps you. If not I'm sure that if you watch cat videos long enough you'll get a brilliant idea to fix everything. This is all I have to say for today. Hope all you readers have a great day. Good bye, humanoids.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00712567729539976796noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8466514034384745082.post-35220915417589839982015-01-15T15:50:00.001-08:002015-02-12T06:58:02.550-08:00Personality Quiz of Doom!!!!Ever asked yourself "if I was one of Katie Rose's characters who would I be?"? Well, today you can answer that question. I created a quiz thingy because of boredom! So, who are you?<br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00712567729539976796noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8466514034384745082.post-35611712371974256972015-01-13T07:16:00.000-08:002015-01-13T07:16:27.812-08:00The Last of the Unicorns<div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 6pt;">
<span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Unicorns, the most endangered animals still alive. Only a few still live in the wilds today. We’ve hunted them down, murdered them. Those who we don’t kill we imprison and throw away the key. We are the reason most people don’t believe that </span></span><span style="font-family: inherit; white-space: pre-wrap;">unicorns exist. </span></div>
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<span id="docs-internal-guid-89c5c553-e3da-6f55-f16e-c2bfe406af4b"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Hundreds of years ago knights hunted unicorns for sport. They existed in large numbers back then. You could take a stroll through the forest and spot one. But back then if you saw one you’d probably try to kill it. Unicorn horns were worth a great deal. Murder one of the beautiful creatures and you’ll have money to feed your family for months.</span></span></span><br />
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<span id="docs-internal-guid-89c5c56e-e3da-9126-479c-67f9ee88500b"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Very few unicorns live in the wilds. Actually, there probably aren’t any still living in the forests of the British Isles today are we are the only ones to blame for such a crime. </span></span></span><span style="line-height: 1; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">As far as I know all the unicorns we still have </span></span><span style="line-height: 1; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">yet to murder live in Scotland. They live in </span></span><span style="line-height: 1; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">labs. We experiment on them, torture them. </span></span><span style="line-height: 1; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">We do it in the name of science, forgetting </span></span><span style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 1; white-space: pre-wrap;">that they are living breathing creatures. Not</span><br />
<span id="docs-internal-guid-aef2c9fe-e3da-b607-f34d-b12e9d28447a"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">all unicorns live in labs though. Some of them have been imprisoned by the rich for their zoos. They live out their lives in cages, never having the chance to gallop through the forests.</span></span></span><br />
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<span id="docs-internal-guid-aef2ca04-e3da-dc40-4f2c-f78560c277be"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Everyone loves horses and ponies. There are a lot of people who own horses. But we forget about the unicorns. We have stopped believing they exist. That isn’t true. They are real. They do exist. We just refuse to believe it. We’re fine with our horses, we no longer care about their majestic cousins.We don’t care what the scientist of Scotland do to the unicorns. We do nothing to stop the violence against the magical creatures.</span></span></span><br />
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<span id="docs-internal-guid-aef2ca1f-e3db-01b4-f51a-4b1278b4294f"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">After reading all that you probably still don’t believe in unicorns. You think this is just the ramblings of a crazy person. But some of you might believe again. You might feel sorry for all that has happened to the unicorns. You want to help them but you don’t know how. Well, by donating five dollars to unicornsarerealbutthiswebsiteisnot.com you can save a unicorn. You can be a hero.</span></span></span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00712567729539976796noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8466514034384745082.post-26655873123691995562015-01-07T14:39:00.002-08:002015-01-07T14:39:23.107-08:00I'm a Unicorn NowYes, you read the title right. I'm a unicorn. How am I an unicorn you ask? Remember that time I told you I was a Time Lord? Well, I broke my neck while playing broom ball and regenerated into a humanoid unicorn. It's kind of weird.<br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00712567729539976796noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8466514034384745082.post-68335426478818735832014-12-24T12:47:00.000-08:002014-12-24T12:47:29.203-08:00The Ghost of Christmas- A Christmas Carol RetellingMerry Christmas humanoids! As a Christmas present to all you wonderful readers of this amazing blog I've written a retelling of <i>A</i> <i>Christmas Carol</i> using characters from my story.<br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The sights lined up with my target. Male, twenty-eight, soldier. He sat in a recliner, his four year old son playing with cars in front of him. A Christmas tree sat in the corner of the room.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I readjusted my position and put my sights on his wife, making a gingerbread house in the kitchen with their six year old daughter. They looked so happy, oblivious of the danger they were in. Their Christmas was about to take a turn for the worse.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I aimed at the man again. My finger hovered over the trigger.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“I wouldn’t suggest pulling that trigger, Killer,” a voice said.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I reached for the pistol laying next to the rifle.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“I don’t suggestion doing that either,” the voice said. “Might end up with you being dead.”</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">My hand clamped around the grip. I turned to the source of the voice. A teenager in his late teens with messy blond hair sat on top of a crate. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“Who are you?” I asked.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“I’m the Ghost of Christmas Past,” he grinned. “But you can call me Landon. It’s a bit shorter.”</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I snorted. “Ghost of Christmas Past? Seriously?”</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“You’re called Phantom,” Landon said.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“The media calls me Phantom,” I said. “I don’t really care for the name that much. I prefer Ghost.”</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“Yeah, whatever,” Landon jumped down from the crate. “I want to be done with this in time for dinner so we might as well get it over with.”</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“Get what over with?” I asked.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Landon grabbed me by arm with one hand and held the other in the air. “Let us go back to the past!” </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The world around me warped. The world spun like a top. When everything stopped moving I puked on Landon’s nice sneakers. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“Oh, come on, man,” Landon shook his foot and the puke vanished. “That’s gross.”</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I wiped my mouth and looked around. “Wait a sec, this is….”</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“The Knight Penthouse?” Landon said. “I know. I brought us here with my amazing magical powers.”</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“But it was torn down,” I said. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Landon nodded. “I know. It’s December 4th, 3005, before your father blew it up.”</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The smell of fresh sugar cookies came drifted through the room.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I grinned and headed down the hall into the kitchen. My jaw dropped when I entered. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">A woman with fiery red hair stood in the kitchen with a pan of cookies.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“Mom….” I whispered.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“Can I please have one now?” a twelve year boy asked. “Please?”</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“No, kiddo,” Mom put the pan by the window. “You have to wait till after they’re decorated.”</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“Can we decorate them now?” the boy asked.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">A redheaded girl sighed. “If you put frosting on now it’ll melt, stultus.”</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Mom gave the girl a stern look. “Derek is not stupid, Sky.”</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“But he doesn’t even know what an imaginary number is,” Sky said.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I smiled. Sky, the only girl in the world who could do complex algebra at eight.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“You have a weird family,” Landon said.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“To remind you what your Christmas’s used to be like,” Landon said. “You don’t want to take this away from that family, do you?”</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“This is about my target?” I asked. “Seriously?”</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Landon nodded. “Kill that man and you ruin his kid’s Christmas forever.”</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I shrugged. “They’ll get over it.”</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">My father sat on the couch with a bottle in his hands.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“Dad, why can’t we have a tree?” the boy from before was there. He was fifteen now.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“No,” Father said. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“But it’s Christmas!” the boy said.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Father glared at the boy. “I really don’t care. Now go do your homework or something.”</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“I don’t have any,” the boy said. “Can I make cookies with Sky?”</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“Get out of my sight, boy!” Father raised his hand as if he was going to hit the boy.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The boy backed away. “Okay, Father.” He walked away.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I turned to Landon. “If your plan is to show me Christmas’s of my past till I decide not to do the job its not going to work. This isn’t going to make me change my mind.”</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“I’ll leave the others to deal with you,” Landon vanished.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“Others?” I asked. “What others?”</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“See, they’re have a splendid Christmas,” Tracy gestured to the target, who was now playing with his son.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“So what?” I asked. “I could’ve watched this through my scope.”</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“You want to leave this boy fatherless?” Tracy asked. “His name is Troy. He wants to be a soldier like his father when he grows up. Do you want to ruin his life?”</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“I really do not care,” I said. “Anything else you want to show me or can I get back to work?”</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Tracy sighed. “You’re a heartless human being, ya know?”</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“If I had a dime for everytime someone said that to me,” I muttered.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“I’ll let the next guy convince you to change your ways,” Tracy snapped his fingers and vanished.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Another one is coming? This has got to be a dream.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“Are you the Ghost of Christmas Future?” I stood just behind the man.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">He nodded.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“Why are we here?” I asked.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“These are the graves of those I’ve killed,” he didn’t look at me. He just stared off into the distance.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The graveyard seem to go on forever. There was no end.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“You’ve killed a lot of people,” I said. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">He nodded.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">One of the gravestone caught my eye. Skylar Knight 2998-3014.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“Sky….” I whispered. “You killed Sky….”</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The man turned to me but said nothing. His face hidden in the shadows of his hood. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“Who are you?” I asked.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">He didn’t answer.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“Who are you?!” </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">He reached up and pulled off his hood. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I staggered back, tripping over a tombstone. “No… No. No. No.” I backed away from him. “You… I… no.”</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The face staring down at me was my own. Covered with scars but it was still me.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“This can’t be real,” I said.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“We murder hundreds,” the man’s voice was like my own. “We enjoyed it.”</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I shook my head. “You are not me. I’d never kill Sky.”</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“She thought we were weak,” he laughed. “But she was wrong. We are not weak. We are power. We are unstoppable.”</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I shook my head. “No. You are a monster.”</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“We are a monster,” he said. “We are the same person. We are Derek Knight.”</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“No, we are not,” I said.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“I am your future,” he laughed as the world around me faded into darkness. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I sat up. Sweat dripped from my brow. My heart pounded. The alarm clock blared. It was time to do the job.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Taking a few deep breaths, I reached for my rifle. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“I am your future.”</span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> No. It was just a dream. A nightmare. That wasn’t my future. I wasn’t going to become a psychopath. I’d never hurt Sky. It was just a nightmare, that’s all. Or was it?</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The rifle leaned against the wall. It had killed so many people. I had killed so many people. It never really bothered me before now. Am I already a psychopath?</span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">No. I’m not. I’m just a man who kills for a living, that’s all.</span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> I grabbed my rifle.</span></div>
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Another way to find the perfect name for that character is to translate common words into different languages. Doing this is a great way to come up with fantasy names. For an example, if you translate the word assassination into Latin you'll get Caedis. You can do this with just about any language and get rather interesting results. </div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00712567729539976796noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8466514034384745082.post-54954516390918728732014-12-05T08:20:00.001-08:002014-12-06T09:31:24.170-08:00An Interview with Alexis RavenHello humanoids! Today is the day I talk about my amazing characters and ask you questions in order to get comments! Or I gues I coud just mespel stuf and use ImprOper caPitaliZatioN and pun'ctu)at:ion. Okay, that last sentence was a pain to write. I'm never ever doing that again. Anyways, for the interview I'm going to give you a quick overview of Alexis and you give me your questions. I'll post her answers on Tuesday. Oh, and here's what she looks like.<br />
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Alexis Raven is the twenty year old stepdaughter of Master Zane Raven of the Raven Guild. Since the Raven Guild is a thieve's guild and Alexis is a member of the guild you can rightly assume that she's a thief. Alexis is actually a pretty accomplished thief for her age. She got her first tattoos at the young age of fifteen (tattoos play a huge part in the guild's culture).</div>
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Alexis has a large family. Her father, who was her stepfather's brother, died when she was very young and her mother married Master Zane a year later. Alexis has two younger sisters and four half brothers. She also has several cousins, uncles, and aunts. Most of whom hate her due to the fact that she got herself kidnapped and was forced to join the rebels. </div>
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As I mentioned in the last paragraph Alexis was kidnapped and forced to join the rebels, or the Freeland Republic as they like to call themselves. The Starrin Empire kidnapped five people for a job and attached little electronic devices to their spine so that they could electrocute them to death if they didn't do the job. Alexis currently is working for the rebels on the Empire's orders. And that last sentence sounded like it was from <i>Star Wars</i>. *starts talking to myself about what to change the Empire's name to*</div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00712567729539976796noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8466514034384745082.post-22268483942838972622014-12-02T08:02:00.001-08:002014-12-02T08:02:14.480-08:00How to Write an Emotional SceneHello humanoids! Today I'll be teaching you how to write an emotional scene. Actually, let me rephrase that. I'll be giving you an example of an emotional scene and you can figure out how to write your own by studying the example. I'm too lazy to actually bother to write a post about writing emotional stuff. Actually, I take that back. I'll give you a helpful tip. Listen to sad, happy, or whatever emotion you're trying to write music while writing the scene. Helps a ton. Now, onto the example!<div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Don’t do this. Please, don’t do this.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I left the city and entered the forest. She had to be here. Where else would she go?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The forest was silent. Not a sound was to be heard other than that of my own heart as I leaped over fallen logs and dashed between the trees.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I stopped at the edge of the pond. Our pond. Where we first met.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">There she was. Sitting on the grass with a laptop in front of her, about to hit enter.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">She looked up from what she was doing. “Derek, don’t try to stop me.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“There has to be a better way,” I said. “Please don’t do this.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">She glanced down at her screen. “I have to.” She pressed send.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“No!” I rushed over and took the laptop from her. It was too late. The video had been released. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“I’m sorry,” she whispered.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I closed the laptop. There was nothing I could do now. “It’s not your fault.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">A tear slid down her cheek. “I’m scared, Derek.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">She buried her face in my shoulder. “I don’t want to go. I’m only twenty.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“No. No. Please no,” I begged. “Please, don’t go.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">A sob escaped my lips. “Come back. Don’t go.” Tears rolled down my cheek. I hugged her body. “Alex, please don’t leave me.”</span></span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00712567729539976796noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8466514034384745082.post-5271201648465775362014-11-27T08:25:00.001-08:002014-11-27T08:25:09.193-08:00Happy Thanksgiving<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00712567729539976796noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8466514034384745082.post-70121982933188580672014-11-25T07:48:00.003-08:002014-11-25T07:48:55.102-08:00I'm a Time LordYes, you read the title of this post right. I am a Time Lord, or Time Lady technically, and no, I am not joking. I have two hearts, a sonic screwdriver, and a TARDIS. Actually I don't currently have a TARDIS due to the fact that I miss placed it a few hundred years ago (would tell you how I managed to misplace a TARDIS but its a long story involving cybercows, coffee, and a rabbit) but that doesn't matter. I still own one even if I don't know where it is.<br />
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How am I a Time Lady if the Doctor was the last Time Lord you ask? Well, remember that one episode of <i>Doctor Who</i>? <i>The Doctor's Daughter</i> season four, episode six? Remember that episode? You don't? Go watch it. Now. It's awesome. But anyways, so the Doctor is cloned in that episode and Jenny, his clone, is a Time Lord and at the end of the episode she goes out and travels through space. Well, eventually she got married and had a kid. That kid is me. So technically I'm half Time Lord but I was born in the TARDIS so I have all of the Time Lord abilities.<br />
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Now that you know how I am a Time Lady lets get into my history. As I mentioned earlier I miss placed my TARDIS a few hundred years ago and I've been living on Earth since then. Since searching for the TARDIS gets boring after a few decades I started to write. I wrote under the pen name H.G. Wells. I am H.G. Wells. How else do you think he, or she technically (I would explain how H.G. Wells is actually a girl but its a long story), came up with the idea for <i>The Time Machine</i>? I've actually had several names over the years. Most of them are authors others are artists. Some of my past lives I was just a normal person who occasionally fought of Dalek invasions. I'm currently a writer but I still have yet to publish anything.<br />
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So, that's everything you need to know about me. Later this week I'll be posting my first character interview, or at least be asking for questions for my first character interview, so check in later if you have anything to ask Alexis Raven. Oh, and also, if you ever run across a vending machine that's bigger on the inside let me know because its probably my TARDIS.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00712567729539976796noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8466514034384745082.post-38906178346284766532014-11-14T10:18:00.004-08:002014-11-14T10:37:50.554-08:00How to Write Something Funny<span style="font-family: inherit;">Have you ever wanted to write something funny but could never figure out how? Well, this post will teach you how to find your sixth sense, the sense of humor. If you already have that sense then there's no need to read the rest of this post.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">What is humor? The definition of the word according to the Oxford Dictionary is: "The quality of being amusing or comic, especially as expressed in literature or speech." That definition is boring though. Humor is basically something that makes you laugh. So anything can be humorous: bugs, cheesecake, cheese, even death. Although if you think death is funny there is something seriously wrong with you. So, anything you write can be funny to someone.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">How do you find a sense of humour? As I said before anything you write has the possibility of being funny so technically you already have it but you want to be funny to more than one or two people. How you gain the ultimate sense of humour you simply have to write words using the British spelling, as I have been for the past paragraph. I spelt humour with the British spelling instead of the weird American spelling so now I'm the funniest Time Lord alive, which really isn't much of an achievement since there aren't very many of us around. Plus all the other Time Lords who are still around are actually from the UK so they already spell stuff that way. Dang it.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">What are some other ways to find your sense of humor? If you don't know what the British spelling of words are then you could always use sarcasm, dumb jokes, puns, and a ton hyperboles. Although despite what your English classes say hyperboles are not all that funny. Sarcasm is though. What is sarcasm? Well, it's a dangerous disease that causes your hair to turn green and makes it so you can only speak Elvish. If you don't believe me go Google Scotland's national animal. It'll answer all your questions other then the ones you have about the meaning of life. The answer to that is 42. Dumb jokes are easy. Why is six afraid of seven? Because seven ate nine. Puns are pretty easy. That picture is a great example of a pun. I already spoke on the jaw dropping effects hyperboles have so there's no need for me to talk about them anymore.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">So, those are many ways you can find your sense of humor. There are more of course but I don't feel like writing an essay that's 50,000 words long. Also, don't blame me if you attempt to use my examples of humor and they don't work. Not everyone can be as hilarious as me and some people never find their sense of humor. If you're one of those people I'm sorry. I'm so sorry. I'd suggest you go find your imagination. That might help.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Anyways, if any of you brilliant readers wish to share some jokes and such in the comments feel free to do so. I love reading funny stuff.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Oliver: Skylar is, like, the smartest person in the entire system.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Jack: We're the same age so if you call me a kid your calling yourself one too.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Alexis: Last I checked I wasn't a baby goat.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">I'm reading a book about anti-gravity. It's impossible to put down.</span><br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00712567729539976796noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8466514034384745082.post-89006919475208422822014-11-03T10:03:00.000-08:002014-11-03T10:03:12.962-08:00I'm a WriterHello humans and aliens of the universe. As you probably already know I'm a writer. If you never realized this before now you obviously haven't read anything else on this wonderful blog. You should go read the rest of my blog. Go do it now. You done? Good.<br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00712567729539976796noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8466514034384745082.post-90925192201837694842014-08-20T12:06:00.001-07:002014-08-20T12:06:27.124-07:00Questions from the Corners of Space and Time: Doctor Who?<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEheFz4Bj-W72nqa0Nl5CWrGzm4lCLYxltbNXMCcgFbwJuszXRewoQr0YlukQF3nYQjKfNgz-VAd1Kh7Fvt7SGPATV0wCI3LpD04_gOjy5izFq7XMK142mDt572ivyTAKBGcZe09EB0pB30/s1600/027.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEheFz4Bj-W72nqa0Nl5CWrGzm4lCLYxltbNXMCcgFbwJuszXRewoQr0YlukQF3nYQjKfNgz-VAd1Kh7Fvt7SGPATV0wCI3LpD04_gOjy5izFq7XMK142mDt572ivyTAKBGcZe09EB0pB30/s1600/027.JPG" height="200" width="150" /></a>Hello creatures of the past, present, and future! This is Reporter Ryder Eclipse the Great reporting in with another pressing question: Doctor who? People have been wondering what is the Doctor's name for the past fifty year so I've decided to find out. The person I've interviewed about this matter is a great tree of few words. He's a raccoon's sidekick and works for a weirdo named Peter Quill. He is Groot! Here's the interview.<br />
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Reporter Ryder Eclipse the Great: Hello, Groot. I've brought you here today to ask you a question as old as time itself.<br />
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Groot: I am Groot.<br />
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Reporter Ryder Eclipse the Great: And I am Ryder Eclipse the Great. The question you are here to answer is: what is the Doctor's name?<br />
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Groot: I am Groot.<br />
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Reporter Ryder Eclipse the Great: I really doubt that's his name. Do you watch <i>Doctor Who</i>?<br />
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Groot: I am Groot.<br />
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Reporter Ryder Eclipse the Great: When I was told you don't talk much I was not expecting this.<br />
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Groot: *grows a flower on his arm, plucks it off, and gives it to Reporter Ryder Eclipse the Great.* I am Groot.<br />
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Reporter Ryder Eclipse the Great: *takes flower* Uh, thank you.<br />
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Groot: *smiles*<br />
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Reporter Ryder Eclipse the Great: Well, I guess we're done here. Good bye, Groot.<br />
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Groot: I am Groot.<br />
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Reporter Ryder Eclipse the Great: *teleports away from the Marvel universe*<br />
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Now you all know that the Doctor's name is I Am Groot. Hope you enjoyed today's question. If you have a question for Reporter Ryder Eclipse then please leave it in the comments. Have a shiny day and may the Force be with you!Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00712567729539976796noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8466514034384745082.post-57673670379305566482014-08-17T14:29:00.000-07:002014-08-17T14:32:11.118-07:00Questions from the Furthest Corners of Time and Space: Why do the Red Shirts Always Die?<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjb1taq0rnbNUSrKC5WZIxINfrTARU_kU5PLIbwrRz_cMOFuXMKMtPA6cHt0p6hiL_xKGJYAfQjI_N7Tpd16SZYpM7et0xN9XNdT0Nb_isUCIURDgWxJGg2UhACDvwDJdZXwZBut0D2O2Q/s1600/016.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjb1taq0rnbNUSrKC5WZIxINfrTARU_kU5PLIbwrRz_cMOFuXMKMtPA6cHt0p6hiL_xKGJYAfQjI_N7Tpd16SZYpM7et0xN9XNdT0Nb_isUCIURDgWxJGg2UhACDvwDJdZXwZBut0D2O2Q/s1600/016.JPG" height="200" width="150" /></a>Hello creatures of the past, present, and future! This is your favorite alien reporter Ryder Eclipse. I am currently on Tatooine where I will ask one of the biggest questions ever asked. Why do red shirts always die in the old <i>Star Trek</i> tv shows and movies? The young man asked about this pressing issue is a loyal soldier of the Galactic Empire. He is the next generation of soldiers in his universe who wear the uniforms that provide the least amount of camouflage I have ever seen. He is a stormtrooper under the command of Darth Vader. Here is the interview.<br />
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Awesome Reporter Eclipse: Hello, young man. What is your name?<br />
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Stormtrooper: Are you a droid?<br />
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Awesome Reporter Eclipse: No. I'm an awesome reporter, as you can see by the title next to my name that came before these sentences.<br />
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Stormtrooper: I am a faithful soldier of the Galactic Empire.<br />
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Awesome Reporter Eclipse: I'm sure you are. Do you know why you're here?<br />
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Stormtrooper: To destroy rebel scum?<br />
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Awesome Reporter Eclipse: No. You are here to answer a question. Why do the red shirts always die in the old <i>Star Trek</i> series?<br />
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Stormtrooper: Because they're rebel scum?<br />
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Awesome Reporter Eclipse: They're not rebels.<br />
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Stormtrooper: Are they droids?<br />
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Awesome Reporter Eclipse: No, they are not.<br />
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Stormtrooper: Have you seen the droids I've been looking for?<br />
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Awesome Reporter Eclipse: No, I have not. So, what are your theories on why red shirts die?<br />
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Stormtrooper: I have a white shirt.<br />
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Awesome Reporter Eclipse: I'm talking about people from <i>Star Trek</i>.<br />
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Stormtrooper: Are they in alliance with the rebel scums?<br />
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Awesome Reporter Eclipse: They're from the future.<br />
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Stormtrooper: I must go find two droid. If you have not seen them then talking to you is useless to the Empire. *Stormtrooper raises blaster and fires it at Awesome Reporter Eclipse. The stormtrooper ends up destroying his own speeder.*<br />
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Awesome Reporter Eclipse: Good bye, Mr. Stormtrooper. *Teleports away from the <i>Star Wars</i> universe.*<br />
<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00712567729539976796noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8466514034384745082.post-62154451651090097352014-06-09T14:15:00.000-07:002014-06-09T14:27:16.241-07:00Dragon's Quest<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgo9xIRAQiU-9GDbyE6FR57qorVKKAaoB-Lw5ma1cOUZXh5IGSMhbbP0EPEsfcd96O34gJQOCmkya46j6QvY5JLVTQQOnEVPRso6oMmelJ21PU_8AOodKptVDdxqr7bptGWJnexq1hx39U/s1600/Dragon" quest.png="" s="" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><br /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgo9xIRAQiU-9GDbyE6FR57qorVKKAaoB-Lw5ma1cOUZXh5IGSMhbbP0EPEsfcd96O34gJQOCmkya46j6QvY5JLVTQQOnEVPRso6oMmelJ21PU_8AOodKptVDdxqr7bptGWJnexq1hx39U/s1600/Dragon" quest.png="" s="" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><br /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgo9xIRAQiU-9GDbyE6FR57qorVKKAaoB-Lw5ma1cOUZXh5IGSMhbbP0EPEsfcd96O34gJQOCmkya46j6QvY5JLVTQQOnEVPRso6oMmelJ21PU_8AOodKptVDdxqr7bptGWJnexq1hx39U/s1600/Dragon" quest.png="" s="" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="212" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgo9xIRAQiU-9GDbyE6FR57qorVKKAaoB-Lw5ma1cOUZXh5IGSMhbbP0EPEsfcd96O34gJQOCmkya46j6QvY5JLVTQQOnEVPRso6oMmelJ21PU_8AOodKptVDdxqr7bptGWJnexq1hx39U/s1600/Dragon's+Quest.png" width="320" /></a><br />
A long time ago in a galaxy far far away… <i>No wait. Wrong story. Gimme a sec, I’ll find the right one. Oh, here we go.</i><br />
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Once upon a time there was a young prince named Jack who wished to become greater than his annoying egoistic brother, Marcus. So Prince Jack decided to go on a quest. A grand quest to slay the evil dragon of the Free Mountains. Now, this grand quest has been attempted by many of men. None of whom returned from the mountain.<br />
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Because of this the young prince decided he might have a better chance of killing the beast if he had help. So Jack requested to have three soldiers who would be willing to go with him on this great journey. <br />
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The three that came forward were marksman Edward; his brother, Matthew; and Lady Skylar, a brave girl who is not a distressed damsel of any kind and is actually a knight.<br />
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These four people, this is including the prince of course, left Starrin and headed towards the Free Mountains.<br />
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<i>Okay, so the story about the journey between the Free Mountains and the Kingdom of Starrin is long and boring so I will just skip a few chapters. Nothing really happened. Only a couple run ins with Jack’s older brother, an attempted assassination, and a battle with a troll. </i><br />
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Two weeks later:<br />
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The foursome were riding through the Dark Forest of Erion when they happened across a traveler named Alexis. After learning that Alexis knew how to heal people they decided to ask her if she’d like to come slay a dragon and then heal any wounds they had. Alexis agreed and they continued traveling together.<br />
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A week later they arrived at the dragon’s cave. Standing at the entrance was a knight in red armor. The guardian of the cave and the adopted daughter of the dragon. <i>Don’t ask. I have no idea why the dragon would adopt a human daughter.</i><br />
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“You shall not enter,” the red knight said. <br />
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Prince Jack battled the red knight. He somehow managed to knock her out without getting his head cut off but he did get stabbed in the chest.<br />
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Alexis healed Jack best she could but he did not make it. <i>Prince Jack died. Just joking! Can’t have the prince die, can we? Actually yes we can but it’s not needed for this story. </i><br />
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Prince Jack knocked out the red knight and entered the cave followed by his friends.<br />
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A great black and green dragon lay on a pile of gold within the cave. <br />
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The dragon looked up from studying a large gem and growled at the intruders<br />
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Prince Jack and his friends attacked the beast. Edward fired arrows, Matthew whacked it with his sword, Skylar also whacked it with a sword, and Jack shouted insults at it while whacking it with a sword. Alexis stood on the sidelines unable to do anything because she had no fighting skills whatsoever.<br />
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The dragon breathed fire and knocked around the four attackers. Edward got eaten. <i>This is not a joke. The dude actually got eaten. Sorry.</i><br />
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Eventually Jack stuck the dragon in the heart and the dragon died. Everyone went back to Starrin much richer and full of glory. They were heroes. Jack had proved he could do something that Marcus could not do. Everything was perfect. Except for Matthew. He was a little mad that his brother got eaten by a dragon so he left Starrin. Alexis went with him. But Skylar and Jack lived happily ever after. The end.<br />
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<i>Nice story, huh? There were battles, long journeys, a dragon, a guy died, and everyone lived happily ever after, kind of. So goodbye for now and remember, never get eaten by a dragon. It’s bad for your health.</i></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I don’t remember gravity very well. I was only two when it broke. Only thing I remember was that back then I didn’t have to keep a lid on my fish bowl or be careful about drinking orange juice in the morning. Now the only thing I know is the life where Newton’s Law of Gravity doesn’t matter. It’s a broken law from a broken world. And this is the story of how I fixed it. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">People speculate that it started in a lab in Illinois. Strange place for the cracks to begin. You’d think it would’ve started near Area 51. But no. It broke near Chicago. Made a huge mess. Then it spread.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I headed towards Illinois. Straight south. I flew through the air. Between the trees that awkwardly stuck to the ground. They looked so weird, being in nice rows like they were. All stuck to the grassy floor. My house was built on the side of a cliff, which is handy. If it had been built mid air like some houses then I’d have to worry about it floating off to Canada. Anyways, sideways is down to me. Guess it doesn’t matter though. There is no down. That’s what we’re all told in school. I disagree.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">It was lunch hour. People were pushing away from work to go get a bite to eat. As I floated down Main Street several people ran into me. Rather easy to do. It’s hard to turn without gravity. That’s why I needed to make it come it come back. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I pushed off an evergreen and towards the grassy floor. A rabbit scurried away. Floating up towards the trees. Must be hard being a rabbit when there’s no gravity. He can’t hop around like his great, great, great, great, great grandparents did. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I pushed myself to my knees. Gravity outside the exercise centers. So strange. So heavy.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“Is that it?” I asked.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">He nodded. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“Is that what is keeping the gravity working on the floor?” I asked.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“So do what you did in the barn,” I said. “Make the ground have gravity. Then over time add more and more gravity to the Earth. That way people know to get back down to Earth.”</span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00712567729539976796noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8466514034384745082.post-17367679440094552592014-04-24T09:57:00.000-07:002014-04-24T10:08:30.485-07:00How to Break your Writer's Block<div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.15; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Writer’s Block. An illness that strikes even the healthiest writers. Symptoms include: staring at a blank piece of paper or computer screen for large amounts of time, the inability to put words on paper, your mind becoming less creative than before, and a dramatic increase of time playing solitaire. If you are showing signs of any of these symptoms go see your doctor to see if anti-writer’s block pills are right for you. Actually scratch that last part. Sorry to say anti-writer’s block pills don’t exist. Wish they did but they don’t. There are other ways to get rid of that pesky writer’s block though. Here are some steps to break your block.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Step two is take a break and do something else. Doesn't matter what it is as long as it’s something other than writing. Try a new sport, play chess instead of solitaire, read a book, draw, do something. Then after some random period of time you can try writing again and that block will crack.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The third step you could try is write an outline. Now if you actually plot your book before you start writing you might be saying “but I already have an outline!”. Forget it. Just write a new outline and have some fun with it. You don’t have to follow it. Maybe have them all suddenly get abducted by solitaire playing aliens who want to force them to play in their solitaire championship. Or maybe they all die at the end. Or they all go eat cookies and watch </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Doctor Who</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">. Or maybe they do what they’re suppose to do in the outline. It doesn't matter. Just write. If you can’t try steps one and two. </span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00712567729539976796noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8466514034384745082.post-87182853344931833972014-04-15T17:56:00.002-07:002014-04-15T17:56:37.861-07:00Attack of the Plot Bunnies<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00712567729539976796noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8466514034384745082.post-81430760034995806612014-03-27T09:50:00.002-07:002014-03-27T09:50:44.458-07:00The Wonders of my Totally Awesome Desk<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00712567729539976796noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8466514034384745082.post-62482424596510497842014-03-25T13:44:00.002-07:002014-03-25T13:44:17.321-07:00Prologue of Eclipsers<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The huge beast was covered with scales. Two dark wings blocked out the twin suns. It’s mouth was lined with spear like teeth that could snap a tree in half with one bite. Reptilian eyes stared into mine and the air suddenly became dry. I didn’t have much time left. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I ducked back behind a pillar and planted my wizard’s staff in the ground.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“Shield of water protect me,” I muttered.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">A watery shield went up around me and I closed my eyes. The heat from the fire could be felt even though I was behind a shield. As soon as the flames dispersed I dropped the shield and leaped in front of the dragon.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Light shot out from the staff. The dragon reared up and spewed fire into the air.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I jump to the side but I wasn’t fast enough. The huge jaws closed around me. My heart pounded as I watched my health dropped into the red. Clinging to my staff and started to say the words of healing but my health was dropping too quickly. Everything became dark. </span></div>
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<span id="docs-internal-guid-e8539ce2-faf9-95ed-6882-d02cba31cfc7"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I sighed and closed my eyes.</span></span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00712567729539976796noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8466514034384745082.post-31968355559094541122014-01-28T14:30:00.002-08:002014-01-28T14:30:45.074-08:00Those Stupid Clones Steal a Lightsaber<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>Those Stupid Clones become Jedi</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>And so the story of the Amazing Spider-Clone began...</b></span></div>
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