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Maximus Planudes
Maximus Planudes, less often Maximos Planoudes (Greek: Μάξιμος Πλανούδης; c. 1260 – c. 1305),[1] was a Greek monk, scholar, anthologist, translator, grammarian and theologian at Constantinople. Through his translations from Latin into Greek and from Greek into Latin he brought the Greek East and the Latin West into closer contact with one another. He is now best known as a compiler of the Greek Anthology.
Maximus Planudes lived during the reigns of the Eastern Roman Emperors Michael VIII and Andronicos II. He was born at Nicomedia in Bithynia, but the greater part of his life was spent in Constantinople, where as a monk he devoted himself to study and teaching. On entering the monastery he changed his original name Manuel to Maximus.
Planudes possessed a knowledge of Latin remarkable at a time when Rome and Italy were regarded with some hostility by the Greeks of the Eastern Roman Empire. To this accomplishment he probably owed his selection as one of the ambassadors sent by emperor Andronicus II in 1327 to remonstrate with the Venetians for their attack upon the Genoese settlement in Pera near Constantinople. A more important result was that Planudes, especially by his translations, paved the way for the revival of the study of Greek language and literature in western Europe.
He was the author of numerous works, including: a Greek grammar in the form of question and answer, like the Erotemata of Manuel Moschopulus, with an appendix on the so-called "Political verse"; a treatise on syntax; a biography of Aesop and a prose version of the fables; scholia on certain Greek authors; two hexameter poems, one a eulogy of Claudius Ptolemaeus— whose Geography was rediscovered by Planudes, who translated it into Latin— the other an account of the sudden change of an ox into a mouse; a treatise on the method of calculating in use amongst the Indians (ed. C. J. Gerhardt, Halle, 1865); and scholia to the first two books of the Arithmetic of Diophantus.
His numerous translations from the Latin included Cicero's Somnium Scipionis with the commentary of Macrobius: Julius Caesar's Gallic War; Ovid's Heroides and Metamorphoses; Boethius' De consolatione philosophiae; and Augustine's De trinitate. These translations were not only useful to Greek speakers but were also widely used in western Europe as textbooks for the study of Greek.
It is, however, for his edition of the Greek Anthology that he is best known. This edition, the Anthology of Planudes or Planudean Anthology, is shorter than the Heidelberg text (the Palatine Anthology), and largely overlaps it, but contains 380 epigrams not present in it, normally published with the others, either as a sixteenth book or as an appendix.[2]
J. W. Mackail in his book Select Epigrams from the Greek Anthology, has this to add of him:[3]
- Among his works were translations into Greek of Augustine's City of God and Caesar's Gallic War. The restored Greek Empire of the Palaeologi was then fast dropping to pieces. The Genoese colony of Pera usurped the trade of Constantinople and acted as an independent state; and it brings us very near the modern world to remember that Planudes was the contemporary of Petrarch.
- ^ Fisher, ODB, "Planoudes"; older sources give 1330; the transliteration varies; the Oxford Classical Dictionary (2009) uses Planudes
- ^ Douglas and Cameron OCD, s.v. "anthology"
- ^ Select Epigrams from the Greek Anthology by J. W. Mackail
- This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press.
- Editions include: Fabricius, Bibliotheca graeca, ed. Harles, xi. 682; theological writings in Migne, Patrologia Graeca, cxlvii; correspondence, ed. M Treu (1890), with a valuable commentary
- K. Krumbacher, Geschichte der byzantinischen Litteratur (1897)
- J. E. Sandys, History of Classical Schol. (1906), vol. i
- E. A. Fisher, 'Planoudes, Maximos', in The Oxford Dictionary of Byzantium, ed. A. P. Kazhdan (1991. Oxford U.P.) (also Oxford Reference Online. Oxford University Press)
- A. Douglas, E. Cameron, 'Anthology', in The Oxford Classical Dictionary, ed. S. Hornblower and A. Spawforth (2009. Oxford U.P.) (also Oxford Reference Online. Oxford University Press)
External links[edit]
- Greek Wikisource has original text related to this article: Ἀνθολογία διαφόρων ἐπιγραμμάτων
- Planudes from Charles Smith's Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology (1867), v. 3, pp. 384–390
- Select Epigrams from the Greek Anthology by J. W. Mackail (Project Gutenberg)
- The Greek Anthology, books 1–6, translated by W. R. Paton, with facing Greek text (Loeb Classical Library, 1916)


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Michigan State's starting lineup looked different Friday afternoon but the outcome was familiar, as the Spartans beat Mount St. Mary's University 98-65 without Gary Harris, due to an ankle injury.
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Calories | 31 |
Total Fat | 0.2g |
Saturated Fat | 0 |
Cholesterol | -- |
Sodium | -- |
Total Carbohydrate | 6g |
Dietary Fiber | 0.6g |
Sugars | -- |
Protein | 1.1g |
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- 2 ounce(s) rice vermicelli noodles
- 1 small carrot, grated coarsely
- 7 ounce(s) Napa cabbage, shredded finely
- 1 tablespoon(s) fish sauce
- 1 tablespoon(s) brown sugar
- 1/4 cup(s) lemon juice
- 12 (12- by 7-inch square) rice paper sheets
- 12 fresh mint leaves
- Place noodles in medium heatproof bowl, cover with boiling water; stand about 10 minutes or until just tender, drain. Using kitchen scissors, cut noodles into random lengths.
- Place noodles in same cleaned bowl with carrot, cabbage, sauce, sugar, and juice; toss gently to combine.
- To assemble rolls, place on sheet of rice paper in medium bowl of warm water until just softened; lift sheet carefully from water, placing it on a tea-towel-covered board with a corner point facing towards you. Place a little of the vegetable filling horizontally in center of sheet, top with one mint leaf. Fold corner point facing you up over filling; roll sheet to enclose filling, folding in sides after first complete turn of roll. Repeat with remaining sheets, filling, and mint.
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A group of stick-up kids rob a mafia run strip club and head for the border but when they enter the town of Redstone, they find that crime is a dish best served cold! Kane Hodder (Friday the 13th, Hatchet) takes the title role as Sheriff Slade Sickle, a man with a true appetite for justice! The film co-stars Tiffany Shepis (Nightmare Man, Dark Reel) and Rena Riffel (Showgirls, Mulholland Dr.) in this carnage-filled tribute to American Grind-House cinema. Horror Legend Kane Hodder (Friday the 13th, Hatchet) is Sheriff Slade Sickle, and when a group of stick up kids arrive in his town, they find that justice is a dish best served cold. Expect buckets of blood, bullets and mayhem in this tribute to American Grindhouse. - Written by Anonymous (IMDb)
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8:30 PM ET, June 3, 2013
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MIAMI (AP) -- As the final horn in a Game 6 loss to the Indiana Pacers was sounding, LeBron James walked toward several of his Miami Heat teammates to shake some hands and share a couple of quick words.
His message was clear: Get ready for Game 7.
Here comes the ultimate game. To the winner, a trip to the NBA Finals. To the loser, an offseason loaded with regret. It's that simple now for the champion Heat and the confident Pacers, who meet in Game 7 of the Eastern Conference finals Monday night in Miami -- a perk the Heat earned by finishing with the league's best record this season.
"Each and every year there are 30 teams that would love to be a part of this, to have one game to advance to the NBA Finals," James said. "And there's two teams that's in this position. And it's something that you can't substitute, this feeling. You can't substitute the atmosphere that we're going to be in on Monday night for both teams. We should all cherish this moment."
When it's over Monday, only one club will be cherishing the outcome.
For the Heat, it's a chance to move into the finals for the third straight year and keep hope alive of winning a second straight title. For the Pacers, it's a chance to cap what would surely go into the books as one of the biggest upsets in NBA playoff history, considering that they finished 16 1/2 games behind the Heat in the regular season.
None of that matters much now. The Pacers have beaten Miami five of nine times this season. They need a sixth, or else it was all for naught.
"It is a closeout game and an elimination game," Pacers coach Frank Vogel said. "Our approach right now is not if we lose we're out -- our approach is if we win, we get to the finals. And that's what we're going for. We're going to give our best shot and try to win the Eastern Conference championship."
Monday's winner will open the NBA Finals on Thursday against San Antonio.
History suggests that the odds are long for the Pacers. Since the NBA went to its current playoff format in 1984, home teams are 16-2 in Game 7's played in the conference finals or NBA Finals.
Then again, the Pacers were colossal underdogs heading into this series, and if it wasn't for a last-second collapse at the end of Game 1, they probably would already be East champs.
"It's going to be tough in their arena," Pacers guard Lance Stephenson said. "We've just got to bring it. If we play aggressive like we do at home, we can get the `W."
Indiana headed to Miami with enough luggage for an eight-day trip. If the Pacers win Game 7, they're headed to San Antonio, with no time to make a return swing through Indianapolis along the way.
"We believe we can win the series. We always have," Vogel said. "We haven't been perfect this series, but we're going to need to be near perfect to win a Game 7 there."
The Pacers had an off-the-court distraction to address Sunday. The team distributed an apology attributed to center Roy Hibbert, who used a gay slur in his postgame comments on Saturday, plus used a profanity to describe members of the media. When the Pacers' flight left for Miami -- it was reportedly delayed because of mechanical issues involving a battery -- the NBA had not announced if it would discipline Hibbert.
"They were disrespectful and offensive and not a reflection of my personal views," Hibbert was quoted as saying in the statement released by the team. "I used a slang term that is not appropriate in any setting, private or public, and the language I used definitely has no place in a public forum, especially over live television."
Vogel said he spoke with Hibbert about the matter Sunday, saying "he obviously made a great mistake."
On the court, though, Hibbert has had nothing to apologize for, dominating play inside while the Heat are struggling in countless ways.
Dwyane Wade's sore right knee -- which has been an issue for about three months now -- is not getting better anytime soon, and he's stopped even wanting to discuss how it's affecting his game. Chris Bosh said he needed to get back in the gym Sunday and regain some lost rhythm. Wade is averaging 12 points on 32 percent shooting in his last three games, Bosh just 6.3 points on 24 percent shooting in that same span.
"Just got to come out and play to win," Wade said. "It's one game for both teams."
Said James, when asked about the other two parts of Miami's Big Three: "I mean, we can state the obvious. They're both struggling."
They're hardly the only Heat players who picked the wrong time of year to go into a slide. Ray Allen is shooting 13 for 46 in this series, Shane Battier is at 2 for 16, and they're a combined 9 for 39 from 3-point range against the Pacers.
Mike Miller gave the Heat a big second-half boost as they tried to rally from a big deficit in Game 6, and Heat coach Erik Spoelstra suggested that Miller could get some time in the series finale.
"Everything is on the table," Spoelstra said.
One roster tweak the Heat will make on Monday: Chris Andersen's one-game suspension for pushing Indiana's Tyler Hansbrough is now complete, and the Heat backup big man -- who is 15 for 15 from the field in the series -- will be available for Game 7.
So even on the cusp of elimination Sunday, Spoelstra was decidedly upbeat.
He lauded the Pacers and insisted that this series going the distance is a testament to the level of competition. He said the Heat didn't mind being pushed to the limit, and that his team would look at being in a Game 7 as "a treasure."
"You feel alive when you're tested, when there's adversity, when you have to reveal your character," Spoelstra said. "Then when you do with that collectively, that is a special moment and a special feeling. There's nothing like it in pro sports ... arguably two of the top words in pro sports is `Game 7."
The Heat had to win a Game 7 in the East finals at home last season, so they understand the pressure that will be there on Monday night. But in his postgame remarks Saturday, James was smiling, laughing on occasion, showing no signs of strain even though a season of the highest expectations is on the brink of ending earlier than anyone would find acceptable.
How he handles everything on Monday will probably determine if the Heat live to play another day in these playoffs.
"I probably will not be able to relax until the game starts," James said. "You know, it's an opportunity for us. And like I said, that's what we had the best record in the league for. If we didn't take care of business on the road at some point in the playoffs, we could always fall back on this. We hate to be in this position, but it's an opportunity and we look forward to it on Monday."
AP Sports Writer Michael Marot in Indianapolis contributed.
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SG L. Stephenson 9.4 | PG M. Chalmers 9.4 |
SF P. George 19.2 | SF L. James 25.9 |
PF D. West 15.9 | C C. Bosh 12.1 |
C R. Hibbert 17.0 | PF U. Haslem 5.0 |
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Liam McArthur
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Liam McArthur MSP |
Member of the Scottish Parliament for Orkney |
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Preceded by | Jim Wallace |
Majority | 680 |
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Born | Liam Scott McArthur 8 August 1967 Edinburgh, Scotland |
Political party | Scottish Liberal Democrats |
Spouse(s) | Tamsin McArthur |
Children | Two sons |
Alma mater | Edinburgh University |
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Liam McArthur MSP (born 8 August 1967) is a Scottish Liberal Democrat politician and Member of the Scottish Parliament for Orkney.
He was brought up on the Orkney Island of Sanday. He is married to Tamsin and they have two sons, Calum and Tom. He is also the goalkeeper for Burray football team.
Political career[edit]
McArthur had previously worked as an aide to Jim Wallace in the House of Commons and as Special Adviser to the Deputy First Minister in 2002. He was elected in the 2007 Parliament election to replace the retiring Jim Wallace, also a Liberal Democrat.[1]
Career timeline[edit]
- 1987-1990: Edinburgh University, Politics (MA)
- 1990-1992: Researcher, Jim Wallace MP (Orkney and Shetland), House of Commons
- 1992-1993: Trainee, European Commission (External Affairs Directorate)
- 1993-1996: Account Executive, various European Union public affairs consultancies
- 1996-2002: Associate Director, APCO Worldwide and APCO Europe
- 2002-2005: Special Adviser to Deputy First Minister of Scotland, Jim Wallace MSP (Orkney)
- 2005-2006: Director, Greenhaus Communications
- 2006-2007: Self-employed political consultant
- 2007–present: Member of the Scottish Parliament for Orkney
- 2007-2008: Shadow Minister for Enterprise, Energy and Tourism
- 2008-2011: Scottish Liberal Democrat Spokesperson on Environment, Rural Development and Energy
- 2011–present: Scottish Liberal Democrat Spokesperson on Education and Energy
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Discoveryland is a theater attraction feauturing a national staff of professional singers and dancers performing live productions. While the theater performances are the highlight of the evening they offer many other "pre-show'' activities. Before the performance each night guests can watch a Western Musical Revue featuring local performers. This revue is a tribute to the American cowboy and also features Can-Can girls.
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We put a name to the farm and a face to the farmer. Help us incubate 100 city farmers producing 1 million pounds of produce by 2015.
About this project
Our Story
Fresh City is a city farm. We incubate farmers that change lives by farming the city for a living. Heading into our third growing season we are confident that our model is scalable. We want to expand our member farmer program so that each neighborhood has a farm and a farmer. We are confident that we can have 100 farmers growing 1,000,000 pounds of produce in Toronto within the next two years. But we need your help.
Why City Farming?
Food lies beyond reason. Empires of fast food chains and supermarkets are built on that fact. We often eat not what is healthiest for us, our neighbors or our planet, but rather what is packaged attractively, seems cheap, tastes good or is convenient to find.
With most of us living in urban areas, city farming is uniquely positioned to change how people view food -- and in the process take on the processed food marketing machine. City farming helps re-connect us with how good food is grown. It changes hearts not by unfurling the latest findings in a nutritional science journal, but by the taste of a tomato, the touch of calloused hand and the smell of a basil plant. It reclaims land for food production and reduces our environmental impact. By bringing makers and eaters together, we help people -- and ourselves -- glimpse a different world.
Our Model
Our approach is entrepreneurial. We are creating the infrastructure and foundation of making a living by farming the city. Why? So that meeting a city farmer at a dinner party will one day be commonplace. Fresh City member farmers each receive a starter plot at our home base and many also have other plots around the city in yards and other underused spaces. Member farmers get access to greenhouse space, cold storage, tools and a market through the Fresh City box program and farmers markets. Above all, member farmers are part of a supportive community that celebrates on the good days and consoles on the bad days. In our inaugural season, we had 6 member farmers, which grew to over a dozen in 2012 and now two dozen for 2013. We want to lay the groundwork for 100 member farmers by the 2015 season.
Our Impact
Farming organically in the city means less chemicals and less energy used. That means cleaner rivers, lakes, oceans, soil and air. It means less carbon emissions and more biodiversity. It also means thousands of people fed some of the freshest and tastiest produce this side of a backyard garden. Perhaps our most powerful impacts are the visceral food experiences we facilitate for our broader community. Be it by hosting school groups for tours, leading small business volunteer work days, mentoring at-risk youth interns, speaking at various events or just sharing our story with farmers market patrons, we are bringing people closer to good food.
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Farming sustainably in the twenty-first century is not for the weak of heart or mind. A little leg up from you can go a long way to a beginner city farmer. This will help us create infrastructure for present and future member farmers to succeed, including:
(1) better cold storage (reduces waste and allows for continuous harvest)
(2) irrigation (especially important in this unpredictable climate)
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Backyard Bear Brawl
Florida neighborhood is being overrun by bears.
A Longwood, Florida man says his neighborhood is going to the bears.
Mansour Kochak had a run-in with two bears while taking out the trash Tuesday.
"They went through the trash and they ripped it apart, took it throughout the front yard," Kochak said.
When Kochak thought the bears had left, he went outside the clean up the mess, but his wife soon came running out the house screaming.
"My wife came out, and said, 'They're breaking the fence. They're coming through,'" Kochak said.
Kochak recorded video as two big bears wrestled in his back yard, and said he could not believe what he saw next.
"A few minutes after that, they just ripped the screen and they came in to my pool area, and they got a dip," Kochak said.
Kochak said he called 911 twice but nobody showed up.
He finally got a call from Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission officers who he said told him to bang some pots together to scare them off.
"Who's got the guts to try to scare bears this big off? I'm afraid they'll come through the window," Kochak said.


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Lately, I've been noticing a disappointingly large number of people out there on deviantART who call themselves "writers", but are surprisingly clueless when it comes to honestly and clearly conveying a story in prose. In an effort to give them a hand up (and perhaps to reach out to other writers frustrated with our increasingly text message-happy culture), I am compiling a list of tips I think every writer should know.
Now, I won't pretend that I know everything on the subject (since I don't), but I've been told I'm a pretty decent writer, and I think I do sufficiently know my way around the English language. These tips won't automatically make you a good writer, but they're certainly good things to keep in mind as you write. These aren't rules, but hints.
As you can imagine, this list will very much be a work in progress, as there is plenty of information that hasn't been covered here and might be added later. Feel free to drop back in later to see if I've added anything new.
So, without further ado
Or in more visual terms, don't just describe what it looks like. Describe what it feels like. So let's say your character is in a rage over something. Don't just say he's angry, that tells us nothing! Show us what he's DOING! Is he clenching his fists? Gritting his teeth? Evidently getting ready to wring the other guy's neck? Are his friends being forced to restrain him? If you play it right, you'll feel this guy's fury right through the page, and your reader will either sympathize with him or feel like curling up in a corner to hide.
Describing in prose is way harder than you'd think. Your job as a writer is to unmistakably get your vision across to someone you've never met and who's never heard of your characters and story. And if you can't do that, it doesn't matter how brilliant your dialogue is or how engaging your characters are. If your audience can't be "hooked", then that's it; you can't entertain someone who's not interested in your work.
I'm sure every one of you reading this can recall a time when you got tired of hearing some garrulous writer go on and on and on about the setting or whatever, tempting you to skip to the more interesting parts. (And admit it; you gave in at times.) Here are some things I've learned that can help make your descriptions more interesting and avoid that particular pitfall.
A. Concerning Imagery
You know, that stuff your English teachers drummed into your head in school. There was a reason they did that, and it wasn't to torture you; it was to help you recognize what it took to write well. Simile, metaphor, descriptive detail, personification. You'd be amazed how much life and color can be brought to a paragraph with just a few tweaks.
Simile: Comparing one thing to another, usually by using the words "like" or "as". For example, "From where I stood, I could see everyone walk by, instinctively dodging one another like ants on a trail."
Metaphor: Also comparison, but different from similes in that the target is described with the traits of something else. Example (albeit a lame one): "From my new vantage point, they became a swarming mass of ants, unseen feelers dictating their wandering paths."
Descriptive Detail: This is NOT to be confused with "waxing poetic" (and a lot of people make that mistake-- the worst offenders usually are amateurs who are a little too taken with either their characters or with their own writing skills. A few pros are guilty of this too; I will not name names.) Descriptive detail means that you give your reader as accurate a mental image as you can possibly convey. In my experience, the best way to do this without boring your audience out of their collective skulls is to get across the basic impression of the person or place, and then fill in what else is essential to know about the subject later should the story call for it. What is NOT necessary is to describe every last little detailno one needs to know the color of your character's shoes unless that's a crucial factor in the story so just run down what's important, and fill things in later if something becomes important or noteworthy.
Recently, I was reading a story (a Raymond Chandler mystery) that described its main character in a single paragraph, but told you everything you needed to know about him to start the story:
"The frown passed and a miniature of a smile quirked at the corners of his lips. He sat relaxed, a short, pale, paunchy, middle-aged man with long delicate fingers clasped on the elk's tooth on his watch chain; the long delicate fingers of a sleight-of-hand artist, fingers with shiny, molded nails and tapering first joints, fingers a little spatulate at the ends. Handsome fingers. Tony Reseck rubbed them together and there was peace in his quiet, sea-gray eyes."
(--Raymond Chandler, I'll Be Waiting)
The other extreme to having no description at all, and annoyingly common in amateurish writings, is the narrative constantly reminding the reader of the features the character might have; no one needs to be told that your romantic hero has long blonde hair or green eyes every other paragraph, no matter how striking he looks.
Personification: Giving inanimate objects human traits or actions. A simple example of this might be something like "The sun smiled down on them" or "the wall stood impassively, a soldier silently blocking her way".
B. Color your descriptions with opinions. Simply stating the completely obvious islet's face itpretty boring. But once you start adding in what your character thinks of the situation/person/object and what it reminds him or her of, that's when it gets fun! Consider the difference between "His hair was messy, his shirt was half-untucked, his coat was ripped, and there was mud on his boots" with "He looked as though he'd fallen from a great height into a war trench, was dragged through it for a league or so, and then maybe was shoved into a thicket of brambles for good measure."
C. Avoid clichés. At least, avoid them when you can. Clichés are ideas that have shown up so much in other works that they've become predictable and tiresome (like "he had a piercing gaze" or "Your grand adventure was all a dream and you've been asleep in your own home this whole time!" or how the one female lead in a cast of action-oriented men ends up pretty much useless), and it can induce some serious eye-rolling on your reader's part if they show up in your story. In extreme cases, they might have even become stereotypes that can completely kill the believability in a story. So whenever it's possible, come up with a different way of saying the same thing. And when it's not, find a way to turn the cliché on its head. You might even get something clever out of it.
"The great ships hung motionless in the sky, over every nation on Earth. Motionless they hung, huge, heavy, steady in the sky, a blasphemy against nature. Many people went straight into shock as their minds tried to encompass what they were looking at. The ships hung in the sky in much the same way as bricks don't."
(Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy)
"Look at you, sailing through the air majestically. Like an eagle. Piloting a blimp."
(GLaDOS, Portal 2)
Dialogue is extremely fun and can be incredibly gratifying to write (especially when it comes to banter between characters), but it can also drag down a scene or feel stiff and awkward if used/written poorly. A couple of tips I've learned about writing dialogue:
A. Don't make your characters explain everything. It bogs down the story and gives your reader way too much to have to absorb. A much better (and considerably more entertaining) method is to tell things on the runkind of like a video game tutorial level where you have to learn the controls by doing instead of by listening. So instead of "These are toxic to the touch because of a curse that got put on them a hundred years ago and [long boring history lesson]" you get "WHOA, don't touch that! Unless you wanna lose your fingers."
B. Tailor your dialogue to the characters involved. No two people get an idea across the exact same way. A sarcastic, tough character will have an entirely different set of vocabulary from a timid, bookish one, and will have different speech patterns and dialects. Think of where the character came from and the kind of environment he or she is in; people are adaptable, and will use different words and phrasings in different settings. For example, if your guy is in a bar with his friends, he would speak very differently from when he's with a date in a fancy restaurant.
While it's probably overkill to have each person radically different in speech, any dialogue spoken by a character should sound as though it truly came from his or her mind (unless of course your character is possessed or something).
C. Stylize the speech. One of the really fun things about writing dialogue for fiction is that you don't have to be "realistic". Let's face it; most dialogue in movies and writing is nowhere near how we talk in real life. I'm pretty sure that William Shakespeare didn't say stuff like "Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, or to take arms against a sea of troubles and by opposing, end them" in regular conversation. And I would be very surprised if Quentin Tarantino talks on the phone with the same profane eloquence that his characters regularly spout. All dialogue in entertainment is stylized so that it's clearer, snappier, and more concise than real-life conversation.
And that's okay! In dialogue, you can add things like broken rhymes, double meanings, subtle innuendo, witty wording, Biblical/mythological referencesthere is no limit, as long as it sounds natural coming out of the character's mouth. Dialogue is immense fun, and it never hurts to be a little clever and put some care into what your characters say. (Don't go too overboard, though! Make sure it really is what your characters would say, and not a display of your brilliant writing skills.)
Here are some snippets of dialogue that I'm particularly fond of:
MAROON: What's wrong with Toon Town? Every Joe loves Toon Town.
VALIANT: Then get Joe to do the job, 'cause I ain't goin'!
(Who Framed Roger Rabbit)
"I didn't create this situation, I'm dealing with it! You're actin' like a first year f**king thief, I'm actin' like a professional!"
(Mr. Pink, Reservoir Dogs)
Well, forgive me for not leaping for joy. Bad back, you know."
(Scar, The Lion King)
MARION: Dad had you figured a long time ago. He said you were a bum.
INDY: Oh, he was being generous.
MARION: The most gifted bum he ever trained. You know, he loved you like a son. It took a hell of a lot to alienate him.
INDY: Not much, just you.
(Raiders of the Lost Ark)
LYSANDER: How now, my love? Why is your cheek so pale? How chance the roses there do fade so fast?
HERMIA: Belike for want of rain; which I could well beteem them from the tempest of my eyes.
(William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream)
"Yeh're off the edge of the map, mate. Here thar be monsters!"
(Captain Hector Barbossa, Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl)
ILSA: A franc for your thoughts.
RICK: In America they only fetch a penny. I guess that's how much they're worth.
ILSA: Well, I'm willing to be overcharged.
D. Say it out loud. This can help to ensure that the dialogue sounds smooth and natural, since if something doesn't feel right when you say it, that likely means something's amiss with the wording. (I would advise mouthing it if you're in a place where there are other people around; you'll get some very weird looks otherwise. Especially if you have two or more characters arguing.)
E. Synonyms of "Said" and How to Apply Them: (Thanks to Cascade-Kirby for pointing this out.) I'm afraid that in urging their students to use words other than "said" in their prose, English teachers may have inadvertently caused a backlash where well-intentioned but misinformed writers mistakenly believe that avoiding using the word "said" automatically will make their writing better. Unfortunately, it is quite the opposite; it makes you look like you're trying way too hard to impress someone, and can become downright distracting and even comical. So let me straighten this out once and for all: it is perfectly all right to use the word "said". The only times you should use other words like "hissed", "insisted", "yelped", "snarled", "murmured", "inquired", etc. is when the situation explicitly calls for them. Don't worry, if you work at it enough, you'll develop an eye for how to properly place these things. But in the meantime, no one will get on your case if you just use "said".
4. REPETITION: DOS and DON'TS
Repeating words and phrases can be powerful and entertaining, but only if you know where to use it. It's especially good in dialogue, if you want to emphasize something. ("If you see someone doing something that you like, steal it. STEAL it. Because
they did.") Treat it lightly, and repetition will serve you well.
What you don't want to do is use the same tired statement or word to describe something over and over and over. One writer I saw (I won't name names) used a particular phrase a good six to eight times over the span of three paragraphs in one of his stories, and by the end of said paragraphs, I was dead sick of that phrase and wished he'd substitute something different for once. The basic rule of thumb: Try not to use the same descriptive word or phrase more than once in a single paragraph.
Word of warning, though: don't go overboard with avoiding repetition, either; it can be just as tiresome as the other extreme. For instance, something I've noticed with a couple of writers is how they bend over backwards trying to find new ways to refer to their characters instead of by their names, and in some cases, it got downright comical. Go ahead and stick with their names or a simple one-word description (the girl, the gunman, the cat). You'll just make yourself look like a fool if you start trying to get creative and end up referring to your character as something ridiculous like "the caped former soldier". Trust me on this.
You'd think this would be a given, but I've run into some work here on dA that talks to the audience like they're all in the second grade and have to have everything spoon-fed to them. Respect your reader's intelligence. You don't need to explain everything to them there on the spot. Just show them what's going on and let them draw their own conclusions, so you can either let them feel satisfied when what they expect arrives, or surprise the hell out of them with an unforeseen twist. Just because you're leading them on the path of your narrative doesn't mean that you have to hold them by the hand. And while it probably won't occur to them to thank you for it, they won't feel like they've been treated like complete idiots, and they'll be more likely to come back to read more of your work.
I came across a short story fairly recently that I think is a terrific example of how to let your readers fill in the blanks themselves. In the story Chirashi Covenant by Naomi Hirahara, the protagonist lies awake in bed after something awful happens to a family member, but despite the doctor having given her sleeping medicine to mix into hot water to help her deal with the trauma, she feels she deserves to spend sleepless nights, for she knows that she is at least partially to blame.
Later on in the story, she meets with the man she is sure had a hand in the occurrence, and serves him a cup of hot green tea. He drinks it, despite complaining of it tasting bitter, and before long, he is slumping over the counter, out cold.
Now, the narrative never says anywhere that the protagonist did anything besides innocently offering someone a cup of tea. And the mention of the sleeping medicine is very brief, almost an afterthought. But even though it is never described, you know exactly what it is the character did, without the author doing anything more than implying it. Brilliant!
6. CONNOTATIONS (thanks to Kenton-Alkemi for the suggestion)
Not all words are created equal. And while you're mining Thesaurus.com for words to use in your prose, keep in mind that connotations-- implied meanings-- can wreak havoc on your writing if you're not careful. Consider this: would you refer to a slim woman as "slender" or "bony"? Both words mean pretty much the same thing, but one has a very unflattering connotation, and would be considered quite insulting. Other examples of this include: whimsical/capricious, stern/severe, eccentric/weird, and proud/vain. Watch out for these things, they can throw you and your reader for a loop.
Some writers refer to it as "killing your baby" (speaking of metaphors, ha ha!) or by other similarly grim sayings. But it's a hard truth: to write well, you have to know when something isn't working out, and then have the courage to pull the plug on it. There might be a clever little phrase you're in absolute love with, and you want to have it in your story so you can show the world how brilliant you are with words. Well, if it fits the story and doesn't halt the narrative, fine. Throw it in.
But if it doesn't belong in your story, then it shouldn't be there and you should get rid of it, no matter how clever it is and how much you love it. The story is what is most important, and if something doesn't sound right in your prose, then you should either fix it to better fit or just ditch it!
The willingness to kill your writing doesn't come easily (hell, I have trouble with this, too), but it IS a necessity, and it often makes all the difference between a writer and a good writer.
8. PROOFREAD IT. (thanks to QueenGwenevere for suggesting this tip)
After you think you've finished writing, read your work over and check it for spelling and grammar errors (and don't let your word processor's checker fool you! Just because it says that a word isn't misspelled does not mean that it's the right word). Then read over it again to make sure everything flows together smoothly, and edit or change anything that feels awkward. Then read it again to see if you missed anything. Send it to a friend to look over it and point out problems. And after they send it back, read it AGAIN!
Things you need to look out for: spelling problems, capitalized words that don't need it, homophones ("there/they're/their" and "you're/your" are two big ones a LOT of people mess up), simple grammar screwups (think "he is, they are" and the like), passive narrative (don't use "it was pushed by him" if you can use "he pushed it"), and present tense/past tense mixups (If your story is taking place in the past tense, don't throw your reader for a loop and throw "he looks like" or "she is" in the narrative. Just don't!). Also keep an eye on the flow of your story. If there's something that disrupts it (like say an unnecessary joke), toss it! If you need a better lead-in to the next scene, start rewriting.
And then proofread it again. Because you can't ever be too careful.
Thanks for reading, and I hope this helps some of you in your endeavors to become writers, as opposed to just
people with keyboards.
Good luck!


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Top biomedical scientists from 28 countries will gather at the new Janelia Farm Research Campus of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) to share insights and data from their latest research on some of the world's toughest medical challenges--such as tuberculosis, malaria, and antibiotic resistance. The meeting of HHMI international research scholars that will convene September 26–29, 2006 is the first international scientific meeting to be held at the recently completed $500 million campus, which is located near Washington Dulles International Airport in Loudoun County, Virginia.
Well known in the United States for identifying top scientific talent and encouraging those researchers to push the boundaries of biomedical science, HHMI has supported promising researchers in Latin America and Canada since 1991 and in the Baltics, Eastern and Central Europe, Russia, and Ukraine since 1995. The Institute also gives awards to scientists worldwide who are doing pioneering research in infectious diseases and parasitology. The grants have enabled the best scientists to remain in their own countries and conduct internationally competitive research.
"HHMI's international research scholars are talented scientists who are respected leaders in their fields, known well beyond the borders of their own countries," said Peter J. Bruns, HHMI vice president for grants and special programs. "By helping support their research at home, we hope to strengthen the global enterprise of science."
Although Janelia Farm officially opens in October, the meeting there is an advance opportunity for some of the world's leading basic researchers from outside the United States to network and discuss their progress on difficult research problems.
"The campus and the culture of Janelia Farm were designed to support and encourage collaborative, interdisciplinary research," said Thomas R. Cech, HHMI president. "Those attributes make Janelia Farm a perfect location to host a meeting where researchers can share ideas about developing new scientific strategies for combating the challenging global problems that HHMI's international scientists have chosen to tackle."
At the meeting, the HHMI international research scholars will report on research that spans a broad range of biomedical topics, including infectious and parasitic diseases, immune responses, Alzheimer's and prion disease, neural circuits, mitochondrial DNA and DNA repair, ribosomal RNA, cell signaling, molecular motors, protein structure, and apoptosis (cell death). Some of the international scientists who will speak include:
Karel Svoboda, a group leader at Janelia Farm, will open the meeting with a keynote address on "Synaptic Plasticity and Stability in the Neocortex." Svoboda is a neuroscientist who has developed tools and techniques to help scientists watch what happens in the brains of mice as they learn to adapt to new experiences. To do this, he developed mice engineered to produce green fluorescent protein in the brain cells that process sensory inputs from the mice's whiskers. He also designed a microscope that uses an infrared laser to track the fluorescent neurons.
Two HHMI investigators--Bonnie Bassler of Princeton University and Joseph DeRisi from the University of California, San Francisco--also will give talks during the international scholars meeting. Bassler, who studies how bacteria communicate with each other, will speak about her recent research on quorum sensing, which is the production, release, and detection of signaling molecules that enable bacteria to regulate gene expression. Her presentation is titled "Tiny Conspiracies: Cell-to-Cell Communication in Bacteria."
DeRisi's lab has developed a viral diagnostic and virus discovery system based on a microarray, a tool for simultaneously studying a large number of DNA fragments or proteins. He is also working on an accelerated malaria drug discovery program. DeRisi will speak about "Bugs, Drugs, and Microarrays."
"Because many of our international research scholars are working to find ways to prevent or treat infectious and parasitic diseases, they should find the insights of these particular HHMI investigators especially relevant," said HHMI vice president Bruns.
HHMI's International Program supports individual scientists of the highest quality in their home countries. The program links them with each other and with other HHMI researchers to create an international network of outstanding scientists. Since 1991, the Institute has awarded more than $100 million in grants to scientists worldwide. This is the 12th international scholars meeting.
A nonprofit medical research organization, the Howard Hughes Medical Institute was established in 1953 by the aviator-industrialist. The Institute, headquartered in Chevy Chase, Maryland, is one of the largest philanthropies in the world, with an endowment of $16.3 billion at the close of its 2006 fiscal year. HHMI spent $478 million in support of biomedical research and $81 million for support of a variety of science education and other grants programs in fiscal 2006.
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