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Chapter 1
Warm, sticky fluid seeped into her clothing, saturating her upper chest. With a repulsed shudder, Rowan closed her eyes and willed herself to calm down, her breathing to return to normal. The man's weight crushed her, creating the panicky sensation she could not get enough air into her lungs. But she didn't have the energy to shove him away. Finally, she could stand it no more. She wormed her hands beneath his shoulders and pushed up. His large body moved slightly, then settled back over her, feeling heavier than before. She expelled a frustrated breath. If she didn't get this guy off, he would surely suffocate her.
"Zeus," Rowan croaked. She listened for a response, but couldn't hear anything over the loud ringing in her ears. Perfect. If she didn't pass out from lack of oxygen, she would probably stroke out. She gathered as much air into her lungs as she could but was only able to produce a weak, "Zeus." Although she needed his help, she was thankful she had put him in the back yard. He would be dead by now if she hadn't. She craned her neck and could see a muddy snout pushing against the screen door in the kitchen. He'd been digging underneath the shed again. That explained why he hadn't heard all the commotion going on inside. "Come here, boy."
The Weimaraner nudged the screen door open and bounded into the living room. He stopped short when he saw the man, baring his teeth in a fierce growl.
"Help me, Zeus."
Zeus moved close and sniffed the side of Rowan's face. As his nose tracked toward the man, Rowan pushed up with her arms, showing the dog what she wanted. "Pull him off, Zeus." Zeus snagged the man's jacket sleeve and tugged. The body barely budged. He dug his claws into the floor and pulled back. "Good boy," she said, when the heavy torso shifted. She twisted her upper body as she jostled against the man and inhaled deeply after Zeus dragged him off her chest. It felt good to be able to breathe normally. She pushed the corpse off her lower abdomen and legs, then sat for a moment, eyes closed, body shaking.
Zeus positioned himself between Rowan and the man, and nudged her shoulder with his nose. She hugged the dog, saying into his fur, "You're a good boy." Zeus solemnly licked her face.
Rowan scooted away from the body and lunged to her feet. The man lay on his stomach, his face turned to one side. A knife, pooled in blood, protruded from the back of his neck. She and the dog stared down at one open eye, looking blankly at nothing. She forced her gaze away and willed her mind to focus on the problem at hand, not what had just occurred.
Rowan hurried to the front windows and peeled back the edge of the curtain, searching for anyone who might be waiting for the man on the floor. The only thing out of order was a large, gold-colored Cadillac in front of her drive, its golden rims gleaming in the sun. She swore to herself. The damn vehicle blocked her in; she wouldn't be able to take her car. She glanced back at the dead man and decided the glitzy Caddy probably belonged to him; those pretentious rims matched the bright suit he wore. She closed the curtain and crossed over to the other side, tugged the heavy cloth away from the window, and studied the street. No one appeared to be inside the vehicle or lurking about, something she found disconcerting. The guy on the floor looked the sort to have a driver, and in her experience, these people always traveled in pairs.
After Rowan locked the front door, she rushed to her bedroom closet, where she worked a couple of loose floor planks free. She withdrew her emergency backpack and took a moment to check inside, make sure her fake ID was there along with enough money to get her to another location.
She grabbed the dog's leash and clipped it on. "Come on, Zeus. We've got to get out of here." At the door, she turned around and looked at the dead man. Tears welled in her eyes but she blinked them away. She had just killed her would-be killer.
She walked back to the man, pulled her foot back, and kicked him in the side. "You shit."
Half a block away, Garrett Somersby slumped in his car, playing word games in his head. Damn, he hated stakeouts. A lot of time to do nothing but think, which put him in danger of some serious introspection. Something he didn't want to engage in at this point in his life, afraid he'd find out how lonely he really was. He had been trailing Twinkle Toes Tommy — named this because the guy supposedly liked to dance, although Garrett suspected it was because he might be gay. He sure looked like a dandy, always dressed in flashy suits with a yellow carnation in his buttonhole. Garrett knew where he'd like to stuff that carnation.
Twinkle Toes was aide to Roland Metzner, the biggest kingpin in their part of the state, and sooner or later Twinkie was going to do something stupid, get caught, and turn over for them. At least that was what the Sarge thought. Sure.
Garrett clicked the ignition to battery and powered his window down. Cool air tinted with lilac flowed into the vehicle. He closed his eyes and breathed in. Spring was probably the best season in East Tennessee, with dogwoods, redbuds and Bradford pears blooming, the town filled with colorful tulips and daffodils and a plethora of other flora he couldn't name. Well, no. It had to be fall, when the Tennessee Volunteers took to the field most every week and the mountains sported a vibrant collage of dying leaves. On the other hand, early spring brought March madness and the Lady Vols. Winter wasn't bad either, with skiing or snowboarding in Gatlinburg only an hour's drive away. And summer hailed boating season on any one of the seven lakes surrounding Knoxville or the Tennessee River winding its way through the center of town. Hell, when you really got down to it, Knoxville was the place to be no matter what season.
Garrett glanced toward the small, white rancher Tommy had gone into. The dwelling sat among a row of houses, each identical to the other. From this vantage point, they seemed to blend into one long, monochromatic line in an area that had seen its day at least a quarter of a century earlier. Lilac bushes sprinkled throughout the small yards added a bit of color to a scene that looked as if it had rested in a photo album a little too long.
Garrett powered his other window down to create a cross-breeze. The scent of lilac increased, reminding him of the perfume his grandmother wore. A woman weaving her way down the sidewalk drew his gaze. Dressed in a short skirt, with stiletto heels, her black hair hung limp and lifeless. A hooker, no doubt about that. Her eyes told the story as they searched the street, hungry for a john who would give her enough for her next fix.
Was this a romantic liaison he was sitting out? Twinkie usually grazed in greener pastures than this dump. But that was just Garrett's luck. A fat slob like Twinkle Toes had girlfriends in every corner of the city, and here Garrett sat, no woman in his life for so long he couldn't remember the last time he had been with one. Well, no wonder. He spent more time on the streets than in his own home.
He stretched his long legs, his body craving activity. He'd rather do just about anything than wait for the fat man to get laid. Movement in his peripheral vision caught his attention and Garrett focused on the house. Someone had opened the storm door from inside, the glass catching a sunbeam and bouncing a bright light straight into Garrett's eyes. He tilted his head out the window for a better view and watched a woman dash onto the small front porch, a large dog on a leash beside her. Damn, he'd never seen a dog so big in his life. Big mother, that one, with a weird bluish hue to his coat, floppy ears, and odd eyes that belonged in a horror movie. The woman hesitated when she drew near Twinkie's large Cadillac, which blocked her short driveway. Garrett's eyes traveled her long, shapely legs to her short denim skirt, and upward, then froze. A large, red blotch covered her upper chest. Was that blood? He hurried out of his SUV.
"Are you all right? Do you need help?" he said as he ran toward her.
She drew up when he stepped in front of her. Her eyes held a frightened cast as they focused on his face. "Yes. No. I mean, yes, please." She glanced past him, at the open door of his SUV. "Is that your car?"
He nodded toward his dark-green Suburban. "Yes, it is. Do you need me to take you to the hospital?"
"I need to go now."
He cupped her elbow in his hand and guided her to his vehicle, the dog trailing behind.
At the car, she drew back. "Do you have the keys?"
"They're in the SUV. Get in and I'll take you to the nearest emergency room."
She glanced inside the SUV, then turned back to him. "I'm going to have to take your car."
"I'm sorry but I need to use your car."
Was the woman addled, had she been hit in the head, lost too much blood? "It's okay. Wherever you need to go, I can take you."
She stepped away from him. "That won't do. I need your car, and I don't need you getting in my way."
Garrett hesitated, his hand reaching for the front passenger door. "What the hell? You're not taking my SUV."
In a quiet voice, she said, "Zeus."
Next thing Garrett knew, he was on the ground. The dog straddled him, his muzzle at Garrett's throat, growling softly. The animal's four paws penned Garrett's arms against his side. How in the world did the dog know to do that?
"Good boy, Zeus," she cooed to the dog, then addressed Garrett. "Is the registration in the car?"
"Call your dog off, lady," Garrett grunted.
"In a minute. Where's the registration?"
Garrett stared into the dog's amber eyes, which he thought more resembled a demon's than a canine's. "Shit. In the glove box."
"Okay, good. I'll mail the keys to you in the next day or two along with the location of your SUV."
Where had everyone gone? A few minutes ago, the street hadn't been crowded but cars had passed Garrett as he sat in his SUV, people walked by on the sidewalk. Now everyone had disappeared. It was as if they were in a sealed chamber, this little scenario playing out between the woman, Garrett, and the dog. When Garrett shifted in order to glance around, the dog deepened his growl and pressed his nose against his neck. Shit. If he could only get his arms free, he might have a chance with this four-legged gorilla.
Garrett tucked his chin into his neck as much as he was able, in case the dog got the bright idea to tear out his throat. "Dammit to hell. Get this mutt off!"
The woman's face came into view, hovering just over the dog's shoulder. She gave him an apologetic look. "Listen, I'm sorry I have to do this, but I need to get out of here and you're not cooperating very well."
"Cooperating? You're stealing my car!" Wanting nothing more than to be up off the ground and away from those sharp teeth, Garrett took a moment to calm down. He forced his voice to a level tone. "Wherever you need to go, I'll take you."
"Believe me, that would not be good for you. Okay, I'm going to call off the dog, but if you get up before we leave, I'm going to sic him on you again and this time he won't just threaten you. You understand?"
Garrett remained silent, rage blowing through his blood like steam through a furnace.
"Say you understand."
"I understand," he said between gritted teeth.
The dog lifted his head and looked at her.
"Come, boy."
After giving Garrett a final growl, Zeus loped toward the car.
Garrett sat up, debating whether to go after her, but that damn dog looked like he could do some damage.
She opened the passenger side door and gestured for the dog to get inside. "I'm really sorry. I wouldn't do this unless I had to."
As he got to his feet, Garrett reached behind and pulled his gun free. "Sorry it has to come to this, but you're not going anywhere."
The dog was in midair before Garrett could swing his arm up. He clamped his jaw around Garrett's hand, forcing his arm down. With a sharp hiss, Garrett dropped the gun. Zeus eased his mouth open so that it locked around Garrett's wrist. But those teeth looked sharp enough to punch right through if he decided to.
The woman shook her head as she gave him a look. "Are you crazy?" She walked over and picked up the gun. Backing up, her eyes on Garrett, she kept it pointed at him. "You misbehave one more time, you're going to miss that hand. Zeus has a big appetite. He doesn't mind fresh meat."
Garrett debated punching the dog in the snout, but the way his luck was going, he'd probably lose his hand. "That's only if he gets me first."
"Do we have an understanding?" she said, enunciating each word.
"Okay. I got you. Just get him away from me."
"Release." The dog whined as if he had plans for what was in his mouth. "Now."
With what seemed like a good bit of reluctance, Zeus let go of Garrett's wrist. He ran his tongue around his lips and over his nose before returning to the car and jumping onto the front passenger seat.
Garrett watched her close the door behind the dog and cross in front of the vehicle. "Just tell me one thing."
"What's that?"
"Is that your blood?"
She shook her head. "I just killed a man. His body's inside." She hopped into the vehicle, keyed the ignition, and drove off.
"Well, shit," Garrett said as she drove away.
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Report – Maruti to unveil Celerio in Nepal at NADA Auto Show next month
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Maruti plans to increase its footprint in Nepal.
Maruti will commence exports of the Celerio to Nepal, and plans to unveil the hatchback at the NADA Auto Show which takes place from September 3. Maruti Suzuki India's executive director for International Marketing and Product Planning, Mr. Shashank Srivastava, confirmed these plans to a local newspaper.
The Celerio was launched in India at the Auto Expo earlier this year. The hatchback introduced the concept of automated manual transmission (AMT) in the Indian passenger vehicles segment, and in fact, the AMT variants of the Celerio command a waiting period spanning nearly six months.
A successor to the A-Star, the Celerio is powered by a 1.0-liter three-cylinder K-Series engine producing 68 PS (67.04 bhp) and 90 Nm of torque, matched to a 5-speed manual or automated manual transmission. The AMT however, is available only on the base LXi and VXi variants.
The top-end ZXi trim of the Celerio is equipped with features like foglights, alloy wheels, ABS, dual airbags, a 2-DIN music system and a rear wiper/washer. Maruti have sold over 39,000 units of the Celerio since its launch.
Also read: Mauti Celerio diesel caught undisguised, launch next year
Maruti currently has 23 outlets in Nepal, and plans to increase it to 34 by the end of the year, Mr. Srivastava said.
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Attention New Scouts
If you are interested in joining Troop 815 in Danville, CA to continue your scouting experience after Cub Scouts, Troop 815 is currently recruiting members for the upcoming 2017 Season. Applications will be accepted through the end of 2016 but we do anticipate being oversubscribed so prospective Scouts are encouraged to submit their application as soon as possible to ensure a spot for next year.
Our recruitment season started in October 2016 but we still have one remaining Recruitment Activity:
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This event is open to any cub scout who is looking to become a boy scout (also known as bridging from Cub Scouts to Boy Scouts). This rock climbing event is specifically designed to allow your cub scout to meet the Troop 815 Boy Scouts.
This is a favorite event among incoming Scouts. Prospective members will be an opportunity to do some indoor rock climbing with the help of older, trained Boy Scouts. Parents get an opportunity to see Boy Scouts in action.
Please contact us to get a Troop 815 Membership Application and to get more information at: membership@troop815 .net
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|+Plus Games
|Wii U, +Plus Zephyr
|Release Date(s)
| February 1st, 2019
February 4th, 2019
March 2nd, 2019
|4-Player, Single Player, Online Multiplayer
|Age Rating(s)
|Media Included
|Wii U Optical Disc/+Plus Zephyr Cartridge
The Legend of Neville: Operation Norway is a side-scrolling beat-'em-up game for the Wii U and +Plus Zephyr, produced by +Plus Games. It is based on Neville, the Deathbringer and his companions on the quest to destroy the evil nation of The Democratic Empire Sweden, which has recently been taken over by the overlords of IKEA. The game initially starts out with 4 main characters, 4 unlockable characters and 3 game modes. However, more is added through DLC which is free.
Style & Gameplay
The game is similar to other side-scrolling beat-'em-up games where up to four players can team up to defeat the evil nation of Sweden which has been taken over by IKEA. While the sprites are in a classic 2D format, the game employs a lot of 3D work into it as well. The scenes and overall feel of the game is heavily inspired by comic books.
There are 9 primary stages packaged with the game that can be explored. Every stage has a boss at the end. Each character has a set amount of stats unique to them, and the stats factor in how much damage they give and take from physical and ranged attacks.
The game has a level up system where characters can gain better stats and more moves and combos. The level cap is at 23, where the character learns their most powerful attack. The game is known for its insane difficulty levels, even in easy mode.
Playable Characters
There are 8 playable characters packaged within the game. 4 are unlocked from the beginning, while 4 more can be unlocked after acquiring certain criteria.
Base Characters
Ãôðøþé Ðáþý
|Ãôðøþé Ðáþý is Neville's wife from Belarus. She is very sassy and is a very good chef. She is obsessed with fashion and her marriage with Neville is a happy one. She is very hyperactive and will often squee her opponents to death.
Jump: 8/8
Attack: 6/8
Range: 4/8
Defense: 3/8
R. Defense: 4/8
Maria Velarosa De La Cruz Dolores Santiago II
|Maria is one of the few people who can stand beside Neville without dying violently. She is a very kind blind, paraplegic nun from the Philippines, and is a renowned speed demon, getting speeds of over 120mph in her wheelchair. When she eats noodles she can stand.
Jump: 1/8
Attack: 8/8
Range: 3/8
Defense: 5/8
R. Defense: 8/8
|Barryenzo is Neville's friend who hates Sweden. he lives in Wales where he fines people obscene amounts of money if their punctuality is below average. He is often listening to obscure music while watching very bad movies for the heck of it.
Jump: 4/8
Attack: 7/8
Range: 4/8
Defense: 5/8
R. Defense: 4/8
|Carlos is a bespectacled scientist from Portugal who lives with his boyfriend Mark. He fears Neville and he is only here because he knows how to defeat the evil overlords of IKEA. It seems that he is a massive stoner as well.
Jump: 4/8
Attack: 2/8
Range: 8/8
Defense: 5/8
R. Defense: 6/8
Unlockable Characters
There are 4 unlockable characters within the game. Neville is unlocked after the main story has been completed.
|Neville is the titular character who can instantly kill anyone by just staring at them, or if they stare back. He frequently gets high on Mountain Dew and he is vulnerable only to Norwegian food. He can only speak in Kyrgyz and Indonesian Bahasa.
Jump: 9/8
Attack: 9/8
Range: 9/8
Defense: 9/8
R. Defense: 9/8
Anastasia Vinnikova
|Anastasia Vinnikova is a singer from Belarus who is fabulous in every way. She is famous for singing Ãôðøþé Ðáþý's theme song, and she flaunts her sass as an attack. She is very deadly in that respect.
Jump: 3/8
Attack: 2/8
Range: 8/8
Defense: 4/8
R. Defense: 8/8
Jump: 3/8
Attack: 3/8
Range: 3/8
Defense: 8/8
R. Defense: 8/8
Jump: 7/8
Attack: 4/8
Range: 3/8
Defense: 7/8
R. Defense: 4/8
There are 9 worlds that are packaged in the game, while more can be downloaded from DLC. There are 15 to be confirmed so far, with 7 of them containing worlds based on different continents, with 8 stages based on different countries each.
|01 Journey through Belarus
|The first stage of the game takes place in Belarus, where the first invasion of the Swedish Empire has begun. The characters must fight their way through an advancing army.
|Swedish Army Guy, Swedish Army Man, Swedish Army Dude, Dog
|02 That Annual Event
|The 2nd stage takes place in London, UK as the main characters make their way through the Eurovision Song Contest, taking out rabid fans and trying not to listen to the awful music that is being played and the political voting procedure.
|Rabid Spanish Fan, Political Voter, Rabid Greek Fan, Flag Waver, Terrible Singer, Annoying Host
|03 Poland
|The main characters meet the overlord of IKEA in Poland, a village in Ohio, where he keeps his secret base full of weapons. He locks them in a basement of a house with a ticking time bomb. The characters must defeat the ninjas guarding the place to escape.
|Dog, Ninja, Ninja Dog
|04 Please Cry For Me Argentina
|The characters end up in Argentina as a part of a conspiracy with the evil Swedish Empire. They face upgraded ninjas who attack with tango. It is here that the main characters are captured and sent on a rocket to the moon.
|Tango Ninja, Tango Dancer, Mafia Man, Mafia Dude
|05 Lunar Legend
|The moon contains the first elements of platforming in the game, and is filled with Space Ninjas who will try and attack the main characters. It is here that the characters gain one half of the Orb of Life and make an escape via a hidden teleport pad.
|Space Ninja, Moon Thing, Angry Star, Pop Star, Walrus
|06 The Vatican City
|The characters end up in the Vatican which has been annexed by the Swedish Empire. The characters will fight multiple Church Ninjas in a timed battle to get to the blimp before the main villain gets away.
|Church Ninja, Zombie, Zombie Ninja, Jesus Biscuit
|07 Snowy Mysterious Land
|The characters chase the main villain to the mysterious faraway land of Canada, where they must make their way through Montreal, where the main villain's scientist is conducting experiments.
|Polite Canadian, Sarcastic Canadian, Drunk American Tourist, French Canadian, Canadian Dog
|08 The Other Snowy Land
|The characters meet up in Finland, where they find out that the only way to defeat Sweden is with the help of the Finnish. This level is more of a search-and-locate level to find people around Norway and Sweden who will join the uprising against the Swedish Empire. It is here where the characters find out why Norway is such a vital place - it is where the other half of the Orb of Life is.
|Trippy the Reindeer, Drunk Santa, Perkele Man
|09 Lost in IKEA
|The characters, now that the Norwegians have given them the other half of the Orb of Life, can enter the headquarters of the main villain: IKEA. Magical Meatballs and Furniture hinder the characters while they prepare to confront the villain.
|IKEA Furniture, IKEA instructions, Swedish Person, Magical Meatball
The game has a soundtrack that contains instrumental and vocal tracks.
01 Journey through Belarus - Born in Belorussia - the music for the first stage is all about Belarus & USSR time where time is Russian, everything is Russian. It is sung by Anastasia Vinnikova.
09 Lost in IKEA - Sultan Hagavik - the music for the last stage of the game is a song where all the lyrics are things you can buy at IKEA.


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A couple of thoughts before I get to today's siteseeing in Seoul. You know how you hear people joke about seeing someone, usually a woman, walking along with toilet paper hanging out from her skirt like some sort of tail? (In fairness, a guy usually has it stuck to his shoe) I always assumed it was like an urban legend or something, I mean really, have you ever actually seen it? Well Alan and I are walking down the B Concourse in Hopkins and lo and behold, there's a woman right in front of us with a piece of toilet paper trailing behind her like a kite. I swear it was close to 3 ft long. I stared in disbelief, then looked at Alan like, do you see that? So I'm thinking, I can't let this poor woman walk through the airport like this.
I was going to write more tonight but I've been up for 30 hours now, including a good 9 hours of on-the-hoof siteseeing and I'm starting to crash pretty fast. I'll post some pics tomorrow to go along with the posting. Good nigh.......
I've tried posting this twice now and each time I hit "publish" unbeknownst to me I lost the internet connection and the posting that took me a good 30 minutes to prepare. God is that annoying. Each day you have to put $20 into the kitty to get a day's worth of internet access at the hotel and if you don't keep an eye on it your time will have expired while you're working. So I'll try this one last time.
Before I tell you about yesterday though let me share a little incident that seems to typify the Asian culture of modesty and deference. It's now early Monday morning, about 6:00, and I just came back to my room from getting a coffee from the restaurant. One of the restaurant guys, dressed in a suit and carrying a tray of cream pitchers saw me from about 50 yards across the restaurant, practically ran over to me while still carrying the tray, apologized, apparently for not standing there anticipating my arrival, and greeted me good morning.
Back to yesterday. Sunday was similar in that I was up at 4:00AM after going to bed at about 9:00 and really had my heart set on an espresso. I asked the concierge if there was a Starbucks close by and she said there wasn't and that even if there were it wouldn't open until 9:00 anyway. I found it really hard to believe that there wouldn't be a Starbucks, or something similar, close to a hotel like the Shilla much less that it wouldn't open until 9:00.
So I left the hotel and after walking for about a mile or so I was willing to give her the benefit of the doubt. No Starbucks, or anything else for that matter. Furthermore, I very quickly realized that unless Alan was going to carry me on his back, it was going to be a very long day. My feet and calf muscles were absolutely killing me from Saturdays sightseeing. When I got back to the hotel I looked away from the concierge as I walked through the lobby knowing she'd be shaking her head over my total lack of trust. Yes, I know this is typical 'me'.
I headed over to the restaurant and noticed on the menu that an espresso was $9.
At breakfast Alan and I talked about what we should do that day. We considered a tour to the DMZ, as in, the demilitarized zone that divides North and
So we map out the subway routes we need to take to get there and head off. The subway picture I took in this set was at a station where we had to change trains to get to the museum. By the way, Alan is truly a museum guy. And a train guy, too.
The next thing on the agenda was…the Korean War Museum. Actually I was fine with this. I had seen the Korean War Memorial in
As you can see from the pictures the museum has a lot of airplanes, helicopters, tanks, artillery and rockets on display outside along a wide causeway. It wasn't unusual to see men posing in kind of jaunty way in front of the airplanes or tanks while their wives or girlfriends took their pictures. It was reminiscent of photographs from WWII where Army Aircorpmen posed next to their planes. Kids were playing on tanks, adults were laughing and posing for pictures. It was kind of strange. I mean, these guys weren't in their 70's, they were in their 30's and 40's. I doubt any man who actually fought in
It wasn't until we got to the end of the memorial that I saw something that seemed to more accurately portray the reality of war. It was a very large bronze sculpture of people, military and civilian, who were touched by the war. But even then I had to wait to take some pictures until a father finished posing his very young son on one of the figures for a photograph. Like I said, weird.


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Denzel Washington turned down a stuntman and insisted on shooting a tough waterboarding scene himself in new film Safe House.
The star plays a fugitive in the movie - with Ryan Reynolds playing a young CIA agent tasked with looking after him - and in one scene is subjected to gruelling punishment.
Denzel told Vulture: "I wanted to see what it would be like... It's strange. You can't breathe in, because the water comes in, and it's filling up your mouth. And that was just one time for a short time.
"Imagine having that done for 20, 30 seconds? You will give up the answers! You may not necessarily tell the truth, but you will tell [your captors] whatever they want to hear."
Director Daniel Espinosa recalled: "I went up to Denzel and told him, 'Time to go, now is the moment where the stunt guy kicks in', and he looked at me and he said, 'Let's go.' 'Are you sure?' 'I'm sure.' And I was terrified, but I let him go and I had to watch him do it."
Ryan added: "He went all out for this movie. I would definitely not like to be waterboarded. It was intense. Disturbing. I had sympathetic pain. I always get sympathetic pain. I wish I didn't. I felt like I was drowning."


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Guests will also come from a world leading professional social networking site with invitation only policy. Home House will host a singles event for its own members too, so we are expecting a busy night!
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Last week, I took you guys through the first half of our travels in Sri Lanka. However, we spent a large portion of our holiday in Galle. Galle is on the south western coastline of Sri Lanka. It has an interesting history, being first established by the Portuguese then taken over by the Dutch before the British having a turn. All these influences makes Galle an interesting place to explore. An important thing to note before visiting Sri Lanka is that it has two monsoon seasons. The south-western monsoon brings rain to the south-west of Sri Lanka between May and September, while the dry season in this region runs from December to March. In the north and eastern coastal regions of the country, the weather is influenced by the north-eastern monsoon, which brings wind and rain between October and January, and dryer weather between May and September. Since it was my husband's birthday in June, we ended up being in Galle during its monsoon season. It was just our luck, that while we were there, there was no rain and the seas was calm! The only regret I have is not being able to whale watch off the coast of Merissa. This area is known for extremely frequent sightings of whales and not far off the coast is one of the world's densest populations of Blue Whales as well as Bryde's Whales, Sperm Whales and Finn Whales, not to mention Bottlenose, Spinner and Striped Dolphins. I will have to go back to see these magnificent mammals!
We woke up to these views everyday! You cannot tire of it! The azure water was so warm and welcoming! We stayed at The Fortress Resort in Koggala, which is a twenty-thirty minutes car ride from Galle City. It provided us the perfect peaceful backdrop without the crazy of the city. The service and everything about the resort was perfect! They gave us have the perfect birthday getaway.
We spent the first day at the resort, just hanging by the pool and beach side. The next day we went to the nearby beach called Unawatuna Beach. The water there is very calm and clear, and made for a great morning of swimming and sunbathing. Unawatuna is also known for plenty of offshore wreck and reef diving opportunities. There are a number of dive sites just 10-15 minutes boat trip from Unawatuna. If you are in the are for longer, another town close by with great sandy beaches is Weligama.
After our morning at Unawatuna Beach, we spent the rest of the day exploring Galle Fort which is a 17th century Dutch fort (and now a UNESCO World Heritage site). The fort has an assortment of municipal offices, places of worship (famously the Dutch Reform Church, museums, shops and old Dutch colonial homes. It is the walls of the fort that broke the wave of the tsunami tide which prevented damage to the fort. The cricket stadium next door was completely destroyed! The views from the vantage points of the fort are breathtaking! Inside, there is a lot to explore with a myriad of stores with merchants selling gems and jewelry and other vintage finds. Get a taste for local art at Hempel Galleries and take home 1950s travel posters from Stick No Bills. Most of the shopping can be found on Pedlar or Church Street. The street adjecent to the lighthouse also has some gem stores that I visited to get a good bargain on a Sapphire solitaire. The fort also has some famous hotels and restaurants. The Jetwing Lighthouse and the newly opened boutique hotel 41 Lighthouse Street, are two options if you would like to live in the fort and closer to Galle City.
If you still have days left over, you could make a trip to another beach town called Hikkaduwa, or visit the Pinnawala elephant orphanage about half an hours drive away. Galle is also a good place to start your exploration of inland Sri Lanka where the tea plantations are at. Kandy is one of those famous cities to visit.
Even though its been a while since we visited Sri Lanka, the memories we made there have totally stayed with us. I am actually in the works of planning to go back there in the next month!


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It doesn't get any more local than this. Franklin Lakes, New Jersey, USA, has it's own version of the phone number list on the refrigerator, but with a technological twist: these phone numbers can be clicked to dial the business listed when the site is viewed on a BlackBerry, iPhone or mobile phone. 07417.mobi allows local residents to dial up the mobile website and find the phone numbers for local restaurants and shops without incurring costly directory assistance charges. All they have to do is remember their zip code.
Plans are underway to invite local businesses to have their own mobi sites linked to the zip code site (for a fee, of course) to show directions, hours of operation, menus, product guides, and weekly specials, all from the convenience of remembering those five numbers, and of course ".mobi." Good luck with the project, and we look forward to seeing your directory grow.


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When I think of fun food, alphabet noodles is at the top of my list! How can you not love the idea of making little tiny letters out of pasta! It's easy to find Alphabet Soup packed with sodium and other things, (or even alphabet cereal full of sugar) but it's just as easy to boil your own alphabet noodles and turn it into a veggie filled pasta dish! You can find plain, dry alphabet noodles where you buy all your other noodles, it's just usually a top shelf type of product – usually found in a bag.
Fall is a perfect time to boil them and chop up any vegetables that you have leftover in your fridge. We enjoyed this with carrots, celery, cucumber, green pepper, tomatoes, and onion. We added a little Italian Dressing (which we seem to eat a lot of- but you can make your own with this recipe). The best thing about it is that it can be served cold, so you can always plan to make it ahead, and it's a quick lunch or dinner whenever you need it! (pasta recipe below)
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Why is it Called a Jack-O-Lantern, Anyway?
Every year a lot of us buy a pumpkin then practice our carving talents for Halloween night. Have you ever wondered why we carve pumpkins and better yet why we call them Jack-O-Lanterns?
Every year a lot of us buy a pumpkin then practice our carving talents for Halloween night. Have you ever wondered why we carve pumpkins and better yet why we call them Jack-O-Lanterns?
One of the best parts of Halloween, besides the costumes, trick-or-treaters, parties and candy, would be carving the pumpkin.
The countdown is on for Halloween and there's nothing like inviting some friends over for some tasty treats and watching a scary movie. Of course, everyone's definition of what is considered scary or not will vary. But to put it into perspective, you can't go wrong on watching some classics.
Halloween is less than two weeks away and stories of ghostly apparitions always start to come to light about this time every year. If you happen to be a person who believes in the paranormal maybe you have experienced something you simply cannot explain.
This Halloween costume is kinda funny. And not funny like when you used to climb the rope in gym class.
Ready to get scared? We've put together a list of haunted houses and attractions for the very brave to check out in and around the Texarkana area.
Ken Bone was already winning the presidential election. Now, he's winning Halloween.
It's almost Halloween and do you remember the classic TV cartoon It's The Great Pumpkin Charlie Brown in which Charlie and his friends go trick-or-treating and Pig-pen winds up getting a rock at every house they went to. Of course, no one wants to get a rock as a substitute for a piece of candy. But sometimes, some of the candy you get you may as well have a rock because some candy is just downright, well, nasty.
Nothing like hearing a little bump in the night -- especially this time of year. If I had the nerve, and I do not, I'd love to stay at a haunted hotel. But I'm too chicken. Instead of me going and checking these places out, I did the research for you so that you could go in my place.
Everyone likes a good scare every now and then. There are plenty of places you can go near here for an evening of some creepy fun. But don't go alone. I searched the state of Arkansas for some haunted attractions you definitely don't want to miss out on. These places are not for the faint of heart or the squeamish.
Run and don't look back. Unless, of course, you want to see zombies coming after you. It's the 4th Annual Don't Look Back Zombie Run Saturday, October 22 at Front Street Festival Plaza in downtown Texarkana.
The decorations are coming out. The candy is being bought. You and your kids are starting to settle on a costume. What's left? Oh yeah, the music.


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PCI Express is the latest I/O interconnect technology that will replace the existing PCI. With a bus bandwidth 4 times higher than that of AGP 8X interface, PCI Express x16 bus performs much better in applications such as 3D gaming.
So read,search the net for compatible gpu according your money power
Is good idea idea to start a new thread with the name.
"I need advice for new graphic card"
This is my motherboard ASUSTeK Computer Inc. - Motherboards- ASUS M2N68-VM im looking for one gpu good and cheap.
You will get many and good answers.
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Cheers for that mate and have done.
Just found out my motherboard has 3 years warranty do you think it is worth contacting asus or where I got it from??
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Yes of curse!
You may received a brand new motherboard without paying anything
That way you don't need to buy a new gpu or anything else
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Well it's taken me 6 weeks to delve further into this and Asus have asked me to reinstall my operating system before they will go any further. Not sure if that will make any difference but I will give it a try this weekend
One quick question I have is:
I bought the PC from MESH computers which had a recovery partition installed (although that was vista). How do I delete that when I reinstall windows 7?
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During installation choose and delete all the partitions.
You will see this option during win 7 installation.
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One more question do I have to go through custom set up rather than upgrade for that option?
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I know you are not asking exactly this.
But is better to do a clean install,full format,delete all partitions and clean install.
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I've been looking at it today but I've confused myself with it.
I've got a windows 7 Upgrade disc (bought pc with vista, then they sent me the upgrade disc out shortly after). Going to do it tonight.
What do you think the best way to do it it.
Stick the disc in
delete partitions under custom setting
Set installation away
Do I need to formate the HD before I do all of that?
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Last Friday, I wrote 4000 new words on my WIP novel. That's a great day for me. But it was only possible because Thursday was a planning day.
When I work with students and teachers, I encourage lots of prewriting. My book, Writing for the Common Core, is essentially a book of prewriting activities. Here's the thing: as professional writers, we know that our best writing comes with revision. That's what students need to do, also: revise. However, that often devolves into merely copying a piece and cleaning up handwriting, especially in the lower grades. True revision, a re-envisioning of how to word something or the content to include/exclude, is hard to achieve in a 50-minute class.
Instead, I ask teachers to provide multiple prewriting activities. By giving students a rich and varied prewriting experience, they come to the first draft more likely to produce something worthwhile.
That's what I did last Thursday, lots of prewriting.
Setting. One important thing for me was to locate my story on the slopes of Mt. Rainier. I used Google Earth to track the roads where my characters would be traveling. Using the program's tools, I measured distances as the crow flies and distances along roads, so I knew how long each drive (and potentially chase scene) would take. I switched to the aerial view to look at the landscape–mostly wooded with some open areas.
Sensory Details. Once I knew where this section of the story would happen, I concentrated on the sensory details. What would they see, hear, touch, taste and feel? What would the day's weather be like? Rainy, snowy, sunny, windy? Along with that, I thought about the mood of the events. Would the characters be frantic, excited, hopeful, angry, or bored?
Scenes. I also took time to sketch out the structure of a couple scenes. Scenes need a beginning, middle, end; add in conflict and a pivot or turning point; stir with some great emotional development. By planning ahead, I knew the general outline of what would happen.
Flexibility. With all the planning, though, I approached the writing with flexibility and let the moment carry the story forward. I "mostly" knew what I would write, but it always surprises me how much it changes and develops as I write. It's never exactly what I planned; it's usually better.
I'm not really an outliner; but I don't write by the seat of my pants either. Instead, I need this half-way place, where I do rich prewriting activities and halfway plan, and then see where it all takes me. HOW you say something is everything. It's not just what the story is or how well you plot. For me, the important thing is how you say it. What word choices do you make and why? What sentence structures and why? What pacing and why? The true writing happens when I write. But I love the prewriting because it enables me to get 4000 words done in a single day. Well, really, that was two days work: one to prewrite and one to write. Either way you count it, that was a couple great chapters to put behind me.Add a Comment
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Hi All! Today I want to talk about the next building blocks of a novel—scenes! (This is part four of a series built around a metaphor comparing a novel to a city. So far, we've imagined words as bricks, sentences as walls, and paragraphs as buildings.)
In a world class city, the streets will get us from point A to point B, but they will also give us a taste of the city's culture, connect neighborhoods, and create a natural flow. In our novels, we want scenes to get us where we're going, but we also want them to leave us with new information, new questions, or greater understanding of our setting and characters. In other words, like a great city boulevard, we want a great scene to keep things moving in the most thrilling and memorable way.
Here are some tips that will help you to create strong scenes:
In every scene, the MC should be acting, reacting, or both—all with a purpose.
Every scene must move the main character (or the POV character if the book contains multiple POVs,) toward his or her objective. The reader should know what the character is working toward, and how the actions they take are intended to bring about those goals. You may want to create a scene that reveals the terrain of your story's world or that lets the reader know the truth about the MC's father. Definitely do that, but make sure the scene contributes to the MC's objective.
As an example, consider the scene early in The Hunger Games where Katniss goes hunting before the reaping. As readers, we see the woods around the Seam, we meet Gale, and we learn a lot of backstory. But at the heart of the scene is Katniss's action in support of her objective of providing for her family and keeping them safe.
Every scene should contain obstacles to the MC's objective.
A scene that has no obstacles will have no conflict and won't keep the story moving and the reader engaged. Even if the scene contributes to the MC's objective, it won't be engaging if it doesn't contain a challenge. It doesn't have to be obvious or overtly connected, but it needs to have some impact on whether or not the MC will achieve his or her goal.
Take another look at the example of the hunting scene from the opening of The Hunger Games. In that scene there is conflict between Gale and Katniss over the idea of whether they should try to run away. They don't have a huge argument, but Katniss gets irritated and snaps at Gale. She remarks that "the conversation feels all wrong." Not a huge conflict, but one that connects to the central objective of keeping her family safe. If Gale encourages her to leave with him, he's putting that objective in jeopardy. The scene reveals this larger conflict on a smaller scale.
Every scene should matter.
Every scene needs to have something valuable at stake. It could be huge, like the welfare of your MC's family, or smaller, like her mood on the day of the reaping. But every scene needs to have something connected to the MC's goal at risk.
The size of the stakes will depend on how strongly they impact the character's objective. A scene with lots of conflict and high stakes—a head-on car crash that leaves a boy pinned inside a burning car, for instance—only delivers if it connects to your MC's goal. If your MC is struggling to cope with PTSD, and she saves that boy from the burning car, her stakes are impacted along with his. The stakes might be life and death for him, but this isn't his story, so those stakes won't resonate as strongly. But saving him required our MC to face her condition, so she had stakes in the scene, too. It's the stakes that connect to your character's goals that matter the most in your scene.
Every scene must move the plot forward, but great scenes will contribute other elements to the story, as well.
A truly great scene contributes more than just goal and conflict. If you can weave in setting, character growth, backstory, etc. you will have created a truly great scene. Think of the trash compactor scene in the first Star Wars movie. There's conflict that impacts the characters' goals of rescuing the Princess and thwarting the Empire, but there's also great use of setting, character development, and dialogue. All these things support the main action of the scene—escaping the trash compactor before they are all crushed to death.
Just like a great city has all sorts of streets keeping things moving and connected, your novel will have many kinds of scenes driving the story forward and keeping the reader turning pages. Next month I'll post about chapters, the neighborhoods of your novel.
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START YOUR NOVELSix Winning Steps Toward a Compelling Opening Line, Scene and Chapter
- 29 Plot Templates
- 2 Essential Writing Skills
- 100 Examples of Opening Lines
- 7 Weak Openings to Avoid
- 4 Strong Openings to Use
- 3 Assignments to Get Unstuck
- 7 Problems to Resolve
All those fiction techniques you've spent time mastering — dialogue, description, setting, mood, scenes, characterization, and plot — are equally useful in writing nonfiction. Yes, there is more leeway in nonfiction than in the last twenty-five years, but publishers still value creative nonfiction or fiction written with fiction techniques.
For example, I have a new nonfiction coming out next year, Kentucky Basketball: America's Winningest Teams (Rosen, 2014). I searched and searched for an interesting opening to the story, until I found a scene that was worthy of describing.
It was Valentine's Day, 1938. Packed into the University of Kentucky Alumni Gym were over 4000 people, some sitting in windows, others literally hanging from the rafters. The UK Wildcat basketball team led top-ranked Marquette University team by 10 points.
It's an exciting rivalry game, early in the history of the basketball program at Kentucky. Fiction techniques dictated that I set the scene immediately. Then I use sensory details to fill in the scene to describe the fast-paced last few minutes. Joe "Red" Hagan shoots a long 49-foot field goal from near the half-court line. When Marquette missed three more times, it becomes the winning score. Then, the interesting part started. In the audience was "Happy" Chandler, governor of Kentucky. He was so excited by the win, and especially Red's winning shot, that he called for a hammer and nail. He rushed onto the court and at the spot from which Red shot, Chandler hammered a nail into the floor to commemorate the moment.
It's stuff of legends. And it deserved a full scene, which meant fiction techniques.
Research Details for NonFiction: Think Fiction
This means that while I was researching the nonfiction topic of Kentucky basketball, I was really looking for a certain type of information.
Scenes. I look specifically for scenes with a beginning, middle with conflict, and ending. It needs to be something fun and interesting, a specific event.
Details. Next, I look for details. Here's a fact: the basketball arena was meant to seat 2500, but 4000 fans were in attendance. A newspaper article of the times specifically said that fans were literally sitting in windows and hanging from the rafters. I look for numbers, colors, sizes, shapes, extended descriptions, and other specific details. These will all help the story come alive.
Timelines. The timeline of the basketball game was important to lay out and newspaper reports were helpful. The details of the first half were important to understand, so I could focus on the last three minutes.
Personalities or Characters. This story is made richer by the presence of Happy Chandler, governor of Kentucky. What a happy thing that he was named Happy! It added to the appeal of the story that the governor with such a nickname was so Happy that he did something unexpected.
Unexpected. The story is interested because of the governor's unexpected reaction. Stories of last-minute wins are commonplace, even if in the moment it feels like a miracle. By itself, Red Hagan's shot isn't remarkable enough to include in a book like this. But add to that the unexpected hammer and nail, and it becomes a remarkable story of a fan who wanted to acknowledge a miraculous shot. That's why this story made it into the book's introduction, surprise.
Research and document all your research; but while you're researching, think fiction techniques. And your nonfiction article will become an interesting story that both informs and entertains.Add a Comment
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A scene is more than simply having the action happen in only one location.
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We all want to write scenes that grip our readers and keep them glued to the page! Easier said than done, right? Well, here are four tips that I try to keep in mind every time I sit down to craft a scene. They aren't 100% fool-proof, but they often help me find that extra oomph to make my scene's sing.
1) Make Sure Your Scene Has Dramatic Action.
The number one reason a scene falls flat is because it doesn't have any dramatic action. Dramatic action is the action the protagonist takes to resolve the problem he has suddenly been faced with.
In STORY, Robert Mckee talks about dramatic action as "story events" and defines them as an "event that creates a meaningful change in the life situation of a character and is expressed and experienced in terms of a value and achieved through conflict."
Well plotted stories are built on stringing together the scenes that have dramatic action. These are the important moments within the character's life that move the plot forward. For example, we seldom see a character go to the bathroom or sleep, because there's no dramatic action in these moments. Instead, we pick the scenes that are the most exciting and meaningful for the reader to read.
2) Is There a Significant Emotional Change in the Scene?
A great way to tell if your scenes have dramatic action is to check and see if there's a significant emotional change. If the character starts the scene happy and leaves it happy, nothing has happened. But if a character starts happy and leaves sad, then something has happened in the scene to change their life situation and make them sad.
You can track the emotion of your scene by drawing emotion faces (happy faces, frowning faces) at the opening and closing of your scenes. The emotion should reflect the emotion your character carries into the scene, and the emotion the character carries out of it in when it's over. If the emotion-face is the same, for example both are grumpy faces, then you don't have any dramatic action in the scene. This indicates that the scene may need to be cut or revised.
Setting up expectations helps the reader to feel the emotional change in a scene. If we know what a character wants and expects as she enters a situation, the reader becomes more invested. They want to see if the character succeeds or fails. You won't have any reversals and surprises if you haven't set up any expectations for the reader.
It's much more exciting to watch a scene where a character scales a cliff if we know he's afraid of heights, or we know his family is trapped at the top, or we know he thinks he can't do it. It's rewarding to see the character defy his fear. It adds tension if we know each misstep means he's one step further away from saving his family from that fire-breathing dragon above (of course … you've got to set that up that dragon!).
4) Stop Protecting Your Characters
Even though we're told to "torture our characters" it's really common for us to protect them instead. Have you ever written as scene and decided to:
- Have an important conversation interrupted by another character/event.
- Had a character freeze up and avoid talking about their feelings in internal monologue.
- Had your character avoid asking an important question? Or had another character avoid answering it?
- Hinted to something, not once, but over and over and over again, and never unveiling the truth until late in the book.
- Bailed your character out of a situation before it reeeeeeally got tough?
- Avoided writing a scene because you the author felt uncomfortable?
All of that, is protecting your character (or in the example of the last one, yourself). The most common culprit is interruption. What's happening is we start a scene, but the second it gets to the tough questions or uncomfortable conflicts, we bail our characters out of the scene and ask our readers to wait.
Sometimes we think we're creating mystery and tension by drawing out the answers to questions, or avoiding the main conflicts. In real life we absolutely avoid questions and conflicts. But in drama … well, we want the drama!
Don't cut off the scene before it gets going. Don't avoid the dramatic action!
Stop protecting your character by allowing her to wander, avoid, and be bailed out of situations. Lock your characters in a room and make them deal with their conflicts! Be brave and get to the guts of the scene.
Happy scene-writing everyone!
Just wrote a scene where the girls are in the bathroom. So funny to read this afterwards. Hope the revision is coming along.
My problem is protecting my characters. I like them so much that I don't want to put them through the pain.
I know what you mean Mel! It's hard to torture them!
LOL! Well, if you've got some dramatic action going on in that bathroom – keep it! :)
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The Ancient Greeks were incredibly imaginative and innovative in their depictions of scenes from The Odyssey, painted onto vases, kylikes, wine jugs, or mixing bowls. Many of Homer's epic scenes can be found on these objects such as the encounter between Odysseus and the Cyclops Polyphemus and the battle with the Suitors. It is clear that in the Greek culture, The Odyssey was an influential and eminent story with memorable scenes that have resonated throughout generations of both classical literature enthusiasts and art aficionados and collectors. We present a brief slideshow of images that appear in Barry B. Powell's new free verse translation of The Odyssey.
Barry B. Powell is Halls-Bascom Professor of Classics Emeritus at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. His new free verse translation of The Odyssey was published by Oxford University Press in 2014. His translation of The Iliad was published by Oxford University Press in 2013. See previous blog posts from Barry B. Powell.
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We've all heard this advice, but how do you write it?
We all want to write great scenes that keep our readers engaged.
How to make your scenes, the building blocks of your story, the best they can be.
Here are some things you need to think about when you transition to another scene.
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First off, Lacey was interviewed! Read her interview at Simon Hay's blog!
So I was reading this awesome post at QueryTracker about writing a synopsis and the section on chapters got me thinking.
I don't write in chapters. My brain doesn't understand them. Like, literally - I find it confusing how sometimes a chapter can take place over a period of three days, and another time a chapter ends in the middle of a scene and the next chapter picks up at the exact same place. I can't find the pattern.
I think in scenes and scene sequences - thanks to all my film and screenwriting education, I guess. My first ms is a dual narrative and for the most part each "chapter" is one complete scene or sequence.
H.L. Dyer says at QueryTracker, "Each chapter, like a novel, should have a beginning, middle, and an ending."
This makes sense to me, and I think this is true of my scenes and scene sequences, they are just generally too short to be considered a "typical" chapter. I'm also a fan of the short chapter in fiction, so maybe that says something about me and my writing.
As I'm in the planning stages of my next book, I'm finding the chapter issue interesting. This book will have one narrator and so switching chapters at the end of each scene doesn't quite work with how I want this book to be.
I don't outline, but I do make note of all the major scenes I know need to happen, as well as my beginning through to the inciting incident, and my ending. I'm fascinated by people who use chapter outlines, and know exactly what will be in each chapter when they sit down to write.
I don't know how they do this. But then I also tend to be more fluid with my scenes. I will switch them around and re-order them in order to best build tension, make motivations clear, and keep the story moving forward.
At this point, I feel certain that I will have to write first and separate into chapters later. I will probably but in chapter breaks in places where it feels right, but other than that I won't know where a chapter ends and the next one starts until I finish the story.
What about you? Do you know exactly what your chapters will entail? Do you think in chapters or scenes? Does anyone else split and number chapters after they've written the book? Am I crazy?
I'm a pantser too. And I also like shorter chapters. I end each where it feels right and interestingly enough I rarely have to change them later, though it has happened. Watch, now that I said that I'll have to redo all of them in my WIP...
I'm like Lisa. I end chapters where it feels right and I've rarely felt the need to change them later, unless I've rewritten those chapters completely. Now I'm questioning whether or not each chapter has a beginning, middle, and end.
I do my best to plan this all out ahead of time, but it never really works as planned (okay, I have only one novel, can't really say never).
My chapters tend to be super long, like over 20 pages. They often contain three or more scenes. I think this is too long, my CPs do too.
Luckily I can often break them into shorter chapters by scene.
You're not crazy at all. You have to do what works for you. I write in chapters because I feel that each has to have their own rise and fall, or arc if you will. A lot of it is by feel though.
I think the same way. My chapters are scenes with a beginning, middle and end.
I write my chapters to contain scenes, but if a scene is a little too long for one chapter, or even too short, then I find the best thing to do is to ask yourself, "where can I chapter-break that will keep the reader wanting to continue reading into the next chapter?". As writers, we all want "page-turning, couldn't-put-it-down" stories. Some of the best books I've ever read do this; they break in a spot that is the most suspenseful, or leaves a question that must be answered before the reader is satisfied to put the book down.
You're not crazy (well, I don't THINK you are anyway ;p). I can understand writing without thinking in chapters. But I don't write that way. My mind thinks in scenes when I write, so I usually write a chapter as if it's a scene in a movie - where does it open and where does the scene end. But, you know, that's just me. Every writer should use methods that work best for them, I think.
Well, you might be crazy but that's a different issue. ;)
Like you, I favor shorter chapters but maybe that's because I write YA. I never know my chapter endings ahead of time, but I seem to know how they should end as I'm typing. I've ended up surprising myself a few times w/ twists that I hadn't planned by writing from the hip, so I'll stick with it for now.
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I think I got over-ambitions with my recovering foot. I did not accomplish everything on my list in my last post as soon as I meant to. Over about three days, I did get those three poems sent out, and I rewrote a short story for a fiction contest and entered it. I did visit websites, etc. for agents I want to send my MG mystery to, and made my list. And then I just got plain tired. I will spare you the details of foot excercises three times a day, 20 minutes each time. But those exercises, plus walking around a little, really wore me out.
So, I've been reading again. Not fiction, because I think I reached "fiction glut" rather than "reader glut" last week. Instead, I've been re-visiting books on the writing craft and doing some more research for my current WIP under revision, my MG ghost story set in 1919 Sacramento. My characters are Irish-Americans, so I've been especially soaking in anything Irish, and the book I just finished reading (and thoroughly enjoying) is Thomas Cahill's How the Irish Saved Civilization, a wonderfully written account in a style that makes history truly exciting to read.
The writing books I've been poring over are: Self-editing for Fiction Writers, by Renni Browne and Dave King, and Novelist's Essential Guide to Crafting Scenes, by Raymond Obstfeld. The latter is really for writers of adult fiction, but, except for the chapters on murder mysteries and sex scenes, the advice and examples are superb for children's writers as well. Both books are good. I've read them before, they are part of my library, but you never can revisit a good book on the writing craft too many times.
So, now the foot is better, the energy is back, and it's forward and on to my revision of Granny's Jig, and query letters for Imogene and the Case of the Missing Pearls -- although my computer time will be in smaller doses for a few days. (I have learned my lesson.)
With a title like How the Irish Saved Civilization, how could this not be a great read? I'm so glad to hear you're slowly but surely recovering, Mitty.
Sounds like you're keeping busy, despite the tiring foot exercises :) I agree with Michelle~ the Irish book sounds like a good read. Take care!
These are all books on my ever expanding reading list. (Sigh) Just not enough hours in the day. But thanks for the reminders.
Sounds like a great read. So happy to hear you are getting better and better. :)
Glad that you are recovering. I will check out both the books.
Take care of yourself and get some rest in! I agree on the craft books. You can ever read them too many times.
Michelle and Jess, the Irish book really is a great read. I learned so much, and the author has that wonderful wry turn of phrase that is so humorous in Irish prose, no matter how serious the subject.
Rosi, you have also passed on some great reads to me. I think you would enjoy all three of these, the one for sheer good writing, the other two for great tips and reminders.
Alleged and Rachna, thanks for the well-wishes. Every day in every way . . . :-), but I'll feel really great when I start driving again.
Joy, one good thing about the enforced rest is time to revisit those craft books. They really are like old trusted friends reminding you they are there to help. So I'll probably be sharing more re-discoveries from time to time.
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Tips to bring your scenes to life.
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We're done! But I thought you might like a re-cap and a table of contents.
The 31-day Think Like a Writer series challenges writers to write at least 750 words each and every day for a month. I used the website 750words.org, but you can do it with pencil and paper or on your computer. These creative writing prompts are meant to be "morning pages" or practice in Thinking Like a Writer.
- Observe the world around you
- Observe Sensory Details
- Noses: Observe Characters
- Make Your Characters Move
- How to Create a Mood with Sensory Details
- Discover Your Passions
- Be Mean to Your Character
- How Old is Your Character?
- Subtext: What is this story really about?
- Write in Scenes
- Give Your Character Something to Hold
- Emotion from a Photo
- 3 Ways to Handle Time in a Novel
- Titles that Readers will Love
- Make an Image become a Symbol
- What what you are SCARED to write
- Everything is Worse and Worse
- Writers Need to Whine Sometimes
- Found Object Stories
- Set the Scene: Panorama
- Set the Scene: Zoom
- Set the Scene: Scan
- Omniscient POV
- 1st Person POV
- 3rd Person POV
- Different Perspectives for Different Audiences
- Before and After: Reveal Character
- Secrets and Letters
- The Other Side of the Story
- Unlovable Characters


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The Orioles fourth-round draft pick, Auburn outfielder Trent Mummey, has gotten off to a solid start in his pro career.
The 21-year lefty hitter and Aberdeen center fielder is the IronBirds' leadoff batter. He is hitting .306-1-4 in his first 11 pro games with four doubles, four walks and five strikeouts in 49 at bats. He has eight hits over his last four games.
"It's been really fun, I've enjoyed every bit of it. When you sign, you don't really know what to expect so you open up your ears and eyes and learn the system a little bit and just play. It's been an exciting first two weeks," Mummey said earlier this week just outside the team's clubhouse.
Mummey said he was not sure what to expect when draft time rolled around, but he was the 118th overall selection.
"The draft is a wild thing, you really have no clue where you are going. I was told fifth round and under. I was watching the draft on the computer and was getting a little worried when the fourth round came.
"Then the Orioles picked me up and that was exciting. I've known guys that were expected to go earlier and fell to the later rounds because they started naming off (bonus) numbers that they wanted and it hurt them. I think I handled the process in the right way."
Mummey batted .366-17-54 in 36 games with Auburn. With numbers like that, fans might look for home runs from Mummey. But he is not a big guy, listed at 5'10" and 176 pounds.
"Being in the leadoff spot, it's not a big part of your game. I'm looking to get on base and drive the ball. I'm starting to learn the wood (bat) better and drive the ball more and maybe I'll start seeing more doubles and triples, more of a gap-to-gap guy. I'm not looking to hit the ball as far as I can, that's not what they want me doing right now."
Mummey had some anxious days right when the college season began when he was on the sidelines injured.
"I fractured my fibula in my right ankle and had a third degree sprain. That took eight weeks to heal. Two weeks in a hard cast and four weeks in a boot and then two weeks to get my feet under me. That happened a week before the college season started, just twisted my ankle playing outfield on wet grass.
"It's been 100 percent ever since I've been back. You don't want to play on a hurt ankle."
Now Mummey is getting used to playing pro ball and using the wood bats every day. He said he got experience with the use of a wooden bat in the Cape Cod League last summer.
"Going up there and facing some of the best arms in the country using wood has really seemed to help out here. Every day you see someone's Friday night starter. That league is tough."
With the IronBirds, Mummey is back batting leadoff in the lineup, a spot that is comfortable for him. He batted mostly second this season in the Auburn batting order.
"It's a little different. My freshman and sophomore year I was the leadoff hitter at Auburn. Just need to go in with a mindset of seeing some pitches and getting on base. Let the guys behind you do the job. As a two-hole hitter sometimes you are looking to advance a runner. But I'm comfortable in the leadoff spot."
One reason the O's drafted Mummey is they liked his competitive nature. For now he's doing fine at Aberdeen and is not sure if he'll remain with Aberdeen for the rest of this season.
"They really haven't told me anything. I'm not sure if they want me here the whole summer or will move me up. I'm just taking it day-by-day and playing the game as hard as I can."


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