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Hero's Journey (Monomyth) : Seizing the Sword - Star Wars, Goodfellas, Dances with Wolves
The Hero's Journey is the template upon which the vast majority of successful stories and Hollywood blockbusters are based upon. In fact, ALL of the hundreds of Hollywood movies we have deconstructed (see URL below) are based on this 188 stage template.Understanding this template is a priority for story or screenwriters.Read more…Seems the Brits Dangle, Too
Some of you (the luckier ones) might have read No. 35, Don't Let Your Participle Dangle in my series of articles titled Really Easy Grammar. If not, it's included later on in this newsletter.Read more…Ten Tips on How to Write a Good Review
You see them everywhere: on the back of books or magazines, listed on websites, on posters if they’re films and sometimes whole sites on the internet are geared to listing them for every possible product. So, what are they and, why are they so important?They are reviews and they’re important because they help consumers decide whether or not they want to purchase that particular product or service.Read more…Writing A Novel Requires Conflict
Writing a novel can’t be done without first establishing the novel’s plot. What is the plot? The structure of the story.Read more…Writer's Block? Tackle it with the Curly Washburn Approach
You find yourself wistfully staring up at the stars. That should be a good thing. Unfortunately, your point of view also includes the snippets of trash, gum wrappers and cigarette butts that are common inhabitants of the curbside gutter in the writer's block subdivision.Read more…The Cure for TMS - 3 Tips to Get Your Muse Back
You say you have TMS - Tired Muse Syndrome? Well, cheer up, because help is one the way. You, yes, YOU can free your muse in easy, fun steps in the privacy of your own home.Read more…Help for Writer's Stress - 6 Tips to De-Stress Your Life
You look at yourself in the mirror and ask "Is that vein supposed to throb like that?" In the back of your mind, you're pretty sure it isn't supposed to.Stress hits everyone at some point in their lives.Read more…The Fight of Your Life - Writing Realistic Fight Scenes
I love a good fight scene. Nothing gets the adrenalin rushing better than the hero and villain battling for the prize. Every move, every punch thrown and blocked, can be a writer's nightmare.Read more…Writing Help That Comes From Your Inner Self
Writing help is all around you. You can find books, courses, and articles to give you writing help. And all of this is valuable.Read more…Need To Write A Sizzling Story? Check Out Your Little Red Diary!
Oh the stories your little red diary can produce. Do they still make those things? Are they still called diaries?Read more…My Little Red Diary Part 2: Writing About What I Ate Today
Why on earth would anyone be interested in what you ate as a teenager? It may surprise you how your eating habits back then could greatly affect the way teenagers look at what they eat today. It may not be what you ate, as much as your emotional state or occurrences that took place during this time.Read more…Relationship Between Happiness and Meaning
Every person at least once in his life stopped to think and to ask himself what would make him happy and what it means for him and what he is living for in general. Some people are even obsessed or stressed by these ideas and thoughts. Others do not even realize that they have to stop sometimes and decide what they really want – a career, a good family, a lot of money or all this together.Read more…Animal Imagery as Metaphors of Power
Africa has always been the continent of hidden secrets, unrevealed mysteries and the place where every person dreams to travel to. Seeing and understanding the culture of Africa, means knowing its history and everything is has gone through. The cultural impact that Africa’s arts have in the general collection and its influence is very important and irreplaceable.Read more…Computer Education And Our Future
The role of computer in education has been changing since it was introduced to public use in early eighties. Nowadays, arguments about introducing more information technology equipment into public education or having a reasonable control of it bother not just school administration but educational councils, psychologists and sociologists countrywide; moreover this problem have spread in recent years on other developed countries. In order to have a look on this problem from different sides and examine major “for” and “against” its enough to read the works of two authors who introduce this problems from different perspectives.Read more…Hero's Journey (Monomyth): Belly of the Whale
The Hero's Journey is the template upon which the vast majority of successful stories and Hollywood blockbusters are based upon. In fact, ALL of the hundreds of Hollywood movies we have deconstructed (see URL below) are based on this 188 stage template.Understanding this template is a priority for story or screenwriters.Read more…The Trojan Women
Being a target for comic poets at his lifetime and being admired after death, Euripides (485 – 406) had no official public life, but enough of private intellectual life. Even his death was a legend more that real facts – somebody tells that he was torn apart by dogs, another says, that these were women…Out of the bright row of his works an interesting combination would be “The Trojan Women” and “Hippolytus” that form perfect continuation for Homer’s “Iliad”. Actually the four Trojan Women – Hecuba, Cassandra, Andromache and Helen are found in the final chapter of Homer’s “Iliad” mourning over Hector.Read more…The Three Influences on Hitler
Adolph Hitler was an unusual and particular person. At one people this name summons indignation and hate, at the other - respect and inclination. In any case that’s very hard to treat this person indifferently.Read more…Why Should I Submit Articles To An Article Directory
Submitting articles to an article directory is a decision more and more people are making everyday. With the great increase in blogging sites and personal websites promoting articles the need for new written material increases by the minute.Article directories enable website owners’ easy access to hundreds and thousands of articles they can add to their website pages.Read more…Writing While Your Heart is Breaking
Your heart is breaking. Love has left your life, or someone you love has become ill or died. How can you possibly think about writing at a time like that?Read more…How To Prepare For NaNoWriMo!
NaNo-What-o? No, NaNoWriMo!That time of year has come upon us again.Read more…
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- Leave the Preaching to the Preachers - By: David Bowman
Telling your readers what they should do is a form of preaching. This style of writing is common, but it demonstrates bad manners and offends readers. Our four-step process will improve your writing and get the response you desire. - Dissertation Writing Skills - By: Maki Kopper
Study is a form of learning, or finding out. When you search out anything, you do it in a particular way, or employing a particular methodological analysis, even if you are not aware of it. - Six Steps to the Best Research Paper Format - By: Jon Oliver
Format of a research can be a difficult job if not done properly. Students and professionals alike worry a lot about the context and format of their research. - Essay Writing Process - By: Maki Kopper
Writing process has made possible the technological advances that have taken humanity from hunting, gathering, and simple farming to exploration of space. Before writing, human knowledge was confined by the limits of memory so the innovation and development is very important in writing process. - Never neglect significance of content formats - By: Maya Gupta
Writing may be a normal stuff for general public but practically it requires extreme mental fitness and imaginative power. Words are one of the most powerful weapons so you must be wise enough to handle it. This article explores distinctiveness amongst different formats of write ups. - Online is Not Print - A Tip For Better Online Writing - By: P. Bradley Robb
Writing for the internet is a lot different than writing for print. Each have their own strengths and weaknesses, but here's a quick tip for how to make your online writing really fly. - College Thesis Writing Guide - By: Maki Kopper
College thesis is absolutely crucial to academic and career goals; even the slightest mistake can devastate your entire late nights and endless visits to library. - An Editor's Selection of Favorite Authors - By: David Bowman
Reading great books helps a person become a better writer. The writings by these 30 authors are worth reading and studying. - Distinguished Dissertation in Teacher Education - By: Jon Oliver
Nowadays, the students have a right to choose the topic for their dissertation and everyone tries to choose the one which seems more or less interesting to him or her. Now, we want to enlighten the main requirements of one of the most frequently used Education dissertation idea, the education dissertation. - Dissertations for the University of Huddersfield - By: Jon Oliver
University dissertation writing is a regular obligation for undergraduates reaching their final year. Writing a Dissertation for the University of Huddersfield is beneficial both for the writer and for the science.