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How to Create Powerful, Sympathetic Characters
Creating sympathetic characters does not need to be mysterious. This week we’ll look a couple of unlikely sympathetic characters. And I’ll give you an easy, […]
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Am I a Story Geek?
What’s happening in my appoach to wine is what happened long ago in my approach to stories. I used to drink wine occasionally, and I […]
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The Longest Journey (Review)
Or maybe the longest, most arduous, most painful, most distressing journey. On two different adventure gaming boards recently, the subject has come up, the subject […]
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Spotlight: Tales of Pirx the Pilot (Review)
This is StanisÅ‚aw Lem week. This past Monday, we looked at his novel The Investigation. Today, we’re reviewing a two-volume set: Tales of Pirx the […]
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The Investigation by Stanislaw Lem (Review)
The Investigation is a novel about strange occurences. Dead bodies start moving, by themselves. At first, it’s hardly noticeable. A corpse moves from its back […]
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Spotlight: east of the web
This episode almost didn’t make it out in time. Production got hung up when I got carried away at east of the web. east of […]
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Internal and External Conflicts
Stories use two types of conflict: internal and external. Internal conflicts are resolved by something changing inside the character, whereas external conflicts are resolved in the world around outside the character. When these two work together, the result can be dazzling. And when they don’t, the result can be devastating.
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EFF and Sony BMG Reach Preliminary Settlement over Flawed DRM
The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) announced Thursday that it had reached a preliminary settlement with Sony BMG over their controversial CD copy-prevention software.
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Spotlight: Firefly and Serenity (Review)
Whatever happened to Zorro? I think I may have seen him on a spaceship, a Firefly-class cargo vessel called Serenity. And there was even an […]
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Three Things to Make Your Audience Adore You
This is a list of opinions. My top three will be different from yours. But these three are important to me, and they are all […]
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