Stumbled across this really useful tool for anyone doing NaNoWriMo or planning any writing schedule—Pacemaker.
You can customize a variety of settings for your word count schedule—like writing significantly more on the weekends, or less, taking a few days off, or even generate a random daily word count target. Then you can display the schedule by calendar, graph, or table and share it with others.
Plus you can adjust the date range, so if you fall behind, it’s easy to update the word count plan and catch up.
Secret Wood is creative Canadian online shop which specializes in handcrafted unique jewelry- namely wooden rings with miniature landscapes encapsulated in resin. The magical worlds of starry skies, snowy peaks and cliffs and submerged valleys are exquisitely hand made with painstaking labor. Formed from a mold of resin, carved wood and beeswax, each piece is unique with a compelling scene at its heart. The waterfalls,, forests and lagoons set within the multifaceted rings remind the wearer of the magical places adventure can take them, in the nooks and crannies hidden across the earth, waiting to be explored.
Useful if this is how you think, though often I don’t see the outline until after the draft is written, because after awhile one just internalize this kind of stuff from all the media one ingests. Point is, use if helpful, ignore if not.
This is EXACTLY how many shows on television plot their episodes, though it’s usually through a five act timeline:
1) Introduction to the characters and the mission/adventure.
2) Mission begins. Protagonist establishes cursory allies and foes. Some sort of complication to the plot at the end of Act II.
3) Protagonist and friends deal with complication of the plot. Gears up for another go at the goal, but falls short in some way, usually related to protagonist’s personal journey.
4) Critical information needed for climax is discovered. Protagonist angsts, then rallies.
5) The lead up to and the final resolution.
Because studios sometimes require a 6 act break for extra advertising, the last coda is usually related to season arc/character development. But generally speaking, this is the structure a lot of screenwriters use.
Since we’re getting started on a Wednesday, how about we go out there into the tag and find someone who’s world really gets your brain churning and send them a question about their world!
We’ll be doing this every Wednesday to help encourage each other, and today’s introduction posts are definitely a good start to give you the quick and dirty of a world.
Get out there and send some asks!
Info for anyone participating in Worldbuilding June, or who just wants to learn more about the worlds other people are building!
update: apparently canberra’s skywhale was harpooned and died
Local resident Michelle Bedford says what she saw can only be described as ‘incredibly unlikely’ and ‘bizarrely beautiful’.
“The guy got on the roof of his van with a crazy look in his eyes I’ve never seen before, as if in his universe there was only him and the Skywhale. He hurled the broomhandle like a harpoon, got it right through the eye.
“We all clapped and cheered, not like we hate the Skywhale or anything but it was just unbelievably cool.”
It then took several hours for security staff and onlookers to disentangle Ahab from the corpse of the Skywhale which had slowly but majestically fallen directly on top of him, like a heavenly blanket with massive breasts.
The sculpture, a hot air balloon depicting a whale as it may have evolved if it lived in the air rather than the sea, has had a mixed reception since it was first launched in 2013. Critics of the Skywhale cited its outlandish appearance, large breast-like appendages and ‘dumb, smug whale face’.
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Artist Patricia Piccinini, who designed the sculpture, has asked that charges not be pressed against Mr Ahab, claiming that she was “invigorated” to see the public engaging with the artwork on such a meaningful level and that she couldn’t ask for a “more fitting way for a big balloon that looks like a whale to complete its lifecycle in the public eye.”
When asked if the ‘killing’ of the Skywhale had any allegorical significance or if the quest to find and destroy it was in some way symbolic of a larger tale Mr Ahab told reports “Nah mate, just f-ing hate that bloody whale.”
It’s basically a massive database full of high-quality images of different hairstyles. I mean, look at all the options in that sidebar (and part of it’s cut off):
In total they have 976 pages of hairstyles with about 17 styles each, that’s about 16592 hairstyles to look at.
skysonglark reference 