Month: March 2006
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A Simple Way to Improve Your Blog
Aside from choosing great titles, there’s another tremendously effective thing you can do for your blog.
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Spotlight: Walk Two Moons (Review)
A review of Walk Two Moons by Sharon Creech. When I first read the first chapter of Walk Two Moons, the Newbery Medal award-winning juvenile […]
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An Interview with Mama Maia
FilmFiler.com has an interview with Maia from saysmom.com. Anyone who’s participated on the writer’s boards will probably recognize her name as that of one of […]
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Using Story in Your Non-Fiction
If you’re blogging or podcasting, writing an essay or giving a speech, you should consider including anecdotes, short interesting or humorous stories. What can anecdotes […]
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Anatomy of a Story Game
What are story games, and how do they differ from other games? What about adventure games and interactive fiction? What are some of the issues […]
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Doctor Who 2005 U.S. Premier
I actually did get to see the new Doctor Who with Chris Eccleston and Billy Piper. Finally, some modern science-fiction I can sink my teeth […]
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Where to Get Character Names
After all my bellyaching about how little character names really matter in the grand scheme of things, here are some of my favorite on-line sources […]
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A Gilmore-Girls Spec Scene
As you know, I adore Gilmore Girls. Actually, I’m on the verge of creepy fanaticism. So I think I’ll resolve the April-Lorelai thing.
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Ender vs. Anakin
Orson Scott Card’s classic award-winning novel Ender’s Game features Ender Wiggin, a six-year old boy genius who saves the world. Ender has superhuman talents that […]
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Spotlight: Because of Winn-Dixie (Review)
A review of Because of Winn-Dixie, the film directed by Wayne Wang, based on the novel by Kate DiCamillo. This is a touching portrait of […]
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