Documents tagged with characters

Chinese Characters: Learn & Remember 2,178 Characters and Their Meanings

A systematic, building block-style plan for mastering the most daunting aspect of learning Chinese—how to remember the meaning of more than 2,000 of the most common characters—is provided in this h...
  • peterek2 published this 12 / 28 / 2009
  • 988 reads
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Acting Etude 2

This is my second Acting Etude, and it focuses on young love.
  • musicmaster! published this 12 / 26 / 2009
  • 55 reads
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Are Your Characters Talking Heads?

By allowing your characters to communicate with their bodies as well as their mouths, you can open up a whole new layer of nuance in your dialogue.
  • KM Weiland published this 12 / 20 / 2009
  • 45 reads
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Tips on Developing Plot in Your Novel

Ideas on how to develop plot in a novel
  • C Patrick Schulze published this 12 / 10 / 2009
  • 124 reads
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Eleven Elements of a Successful Synopsis

Tips on how to write a synopsis.
  • C Patrick Schulze published this 12 / 09 / 2009
  • 83 reads
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Practical Storytelling Chapters 1-3

The idea of using stories in our daily lives is embedded into the human condition. People are instinctively drawn to both hearing stories and telling stories. Practical Storytelling explains the me...
  • rhapado published this 12 / 04 / 2009
  • 226 reads
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How to Bring Characters to Life

How to Infuse Life into Your Novel's Characters
  • C Patrick Schulze published this 12 / 04 / 2009
  • 63 reads
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8 Tips for Writing Compelling Imagery

How to write more compelling imagery in your novels.
  • C Patrick Schulze published this 12 / 03 / 2009
  • 110 reads
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Practical Storytelling

The idea of using stories in our daily lives is embedded into the human condition. People are instinctively drawn to both hearing stories and telling stories. Practical Storytelling explains the me...
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  • rhapado published this 12 / 02 / 2009
  • 228 reads
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Social Dynamics of Non-playable Character's and their Emergent Behaviors

This research paper highlights the lack of NPC's artificial intelligence in simulating real world social dynamics. This paper looks through all the different kinds of factors that occur in real lif...
  • Meronpan published this 12 / 02 / 2009
  • 112 reads
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Fascistance: A Revolutionary Game

A game design document for a revolution simulation. Within its mechanics lies to the ability for NPCs to have personalities that affect the core game play and gives the opportunity for the player t...
  • Meronpan published this 12 / 01 / 2009
  • 62 reads
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13 Tips to Improve Your Characterization

Thirteen tips on how to improve your characterization.
  • C Patrick Schulze published this 11 / 30 / 2009
  • 53 reads
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No good, No good

Written during a bout of blankness while doing homework.
  • tianafreakingsell published this 11 / 29 / 2009
  • 60 reads
  • 3 comments

How to Kill a Character - And Avoid Hate Mail

Some of the most powerful stories in literature and cinema have a surprising common element: The death of a main character. At first glance, this would seem to be an instant turnoff. Why hang with ...
  • KM Weiland published this 11 / 22 / 2009
  • 82 reads
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Top 7 Reasons Readers Stop Reading

When a reader pokes his bookmark in between the pages, stretches, yawns, and drops a novel back on his nightstand, it's a terrifying moment for both novels and novelists alike. This is the moment w...
  • KM Weiland published this 11 / 15 / 2009
  • 106 reads
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12 Tip for Effective Characterization

12 Tip for Effective Characterization. Tips from a professional writers on how to improve characterization in your novel.
  • C Patrick Schulze published this 11 / 09 / 2009
  • 113 reads
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11 Dichotomous Characters and Why They Work

Fiction writing doesn't offer many shortcuts or magic formulas. But today I am going to give you give you a secret ingredient in that coveted recipe for memorable and realistic characters. What is ...
  • KM Weiland published this 10 / 31 / 2009
  • 171 reads
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Pumpkin Land

Photographs of Fantasy Characters Made From Pumpkins
  • webphotostore published this 10 / 30 / 2009
  • 76 reads
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It's a Change in Life_Characters

This is a character description of the story that I am thinking of writing in the future when time and support is given^^
  • HikariNeykka published this 10 / 19 / 2009
  • 58 reads
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Computer Shortcut

This small PDF by Quick Study was really helped me to work faster on computer using shortcut keys.. Also special characters, where we generally stuck, are also included in this. Enjoy!
  • SameerDarekar published this 10 / 18 / 2009
  • 327 reads
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