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Where to start as a beginner writer

Are you new to the world of writing? Here are some pointers to consider when starting out your journey!

Define your purpose

A super important first step for any writer is to ask themselves why they are actually writing. What sort of message do you want to put out into the world, what types of stories are you going to tell? Do you want to make people cry, laugh, do you want to inspire them, do you want to shine a torch on important issues, do you want to thrill them or make them feel good?

Familiarize yourself with character arcs

Before plot, there is character! Character arcs are a great way to get yourself started on your writing journey. Learn about internal conflict, misbelief, positive and negative arcs, backstories... Once you know this, the plotting side of things clicks into place much easier.

Understand the basics of story structure

You do not need to be a plot-genius to write a good book. As long as you have a good grasp on your character arcs, and a basic understand of how a story is structured, you’re good to go! It’s great to read about 3-act, 5-act, hero’s journey, and other structures on examples of books you’ve read or films you’ve seen.

Read in your genre

Cannot stress this enough! Every writer should be a reader. It’s so important to read within and outside of your genre, because reading is the best way to learn and grow and improve.

Don’t be afraid to write whatever comes to mind

All writers get stuck into certain parts of their writing, and we all become victims of perfectionism or procrastination one way or another. Don’t let this be a thing to discourage you. What’s important to know about writing is that the more you do it, the more you will improve. So even if you’re writing something for fun, or you’re not entirely happy with the quality, know that actually writing it will help you more than avoiding it.

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How To Write Dialogue

🦢        ―        &. DIALOGUES . ( what is it? purpose,? types? things to avoid? )

What Is Dialogue, And What's Its Purpose?

Dialogue, as everyone knows, is what the characters in novels, plays, screenplays — basically any kind of creative writing where characters speak — say out loud.

For most writers, dialogue is one of the things we look forward to. It's the opportunity to let the characters' motivations, flaws, knowledge, fears and more come to life! By writing dialogues, you're giving them (the characters) their own voice, fleshing them out from concepts into three-dimensional characters.

Dialogues have multiple purposes — one of them is to characterize your characters. You can learn a lot about somebody's mindset, background, emotional state, and such more from how they speak.

Dialogue makes your writing feel more immersive as well! It breaks up long prose passages and gives your readers something to "hear" other than your narrator's voice. It can communicate subtext, like showing class differences between characters through the vocabulary they use or hinting at a shared history between them. Most times, a narrator's description just can't deliver information the same way that a well-timed quip or a profound observation by a character can.

Monologues

In contrast with dialogues, monologues are a single, usually lengthy passages spoken by one character. They are often part of plays.

A character may be speaking directly to the reader or viewer, or they could be speaking to one or more other characters. The defining characteristic of a monologue is that it's one character's moment in the spotlight to express their thoughts, ideas, and/or perspective.

Often, a character's private thoughts are delivered via monologue. This is called an internal monologue. An internal monologue is the voice an individual (though not all) "hears" in their head as they talk themselves through their daily activities.

Types Of Dialogue

Inner dialogue is the dialogue a character has inside their head. This can be a monologue. In most cases, inner dialogue is not marked by quotation marks. Some mark them by italicizing it.

Outer dialogue is a dialogue that happens externally, often between two or more characters. This goes inside quotation marks.

Things To Avoid When Writing Dialogue

1) Using a tag for every piece of dialogue. Dialogue tags are words like said and asked. Once you've established that two characters are having a conversation, you don't need to tag every piece of dialogue Doing so can be redundant and breaks the reader's flow. Once the readers know each character's voice, many lines can stand alone.

2) Not using enough tags. On another hand, some writers use too few dialogue tags, which can confuse readers. The readers should always know who's speaking. When a character's mannerisms and knowledge don't make that obvious, tag the dialogue and use their names.

3) Dense, unrealistic speech. Dialogues don't need to be grammatically correct. When it's too grammatically correct, it can make characters seem stiff and unrealistic.

4) Anachronisms. A pirate in 1700s Barbados wouldn't greet his captain with "what's up?" Depending on how dedicated you (and your readers) are to historical accuracy, this doesn't need to be perfect. But it should be believable.

Part 2 coming soon.

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Everything is About Finances!

I still remember when I was at my friend’s house and used to poke around by grabbing the paper to read the news, and show off myself by saying “my stocks in the market are doing pretty good”. Nothing to laugh about it, except that the only thing of value was my own bicycle that I used as a mean of transportation to go from home to everywhere else, and my own persona if a body could be counted as gold since my family was “poor” in the terms and conditions of that little kid from “Rich Dad, Poor Dad”.

Years passed by, and we do not know what the future holds for us, and one day at school I am supposed to write a blog for my Entertainment Business Finance about the things that I learned in class. Believe me I learned a lot, and now the real world.

Stock market? Google stocks or Wal-Mart stocks? Which one do I go for? It depends. Stocks in the market behave divergently depending on the sector, and even within the sector a share might be of high value, depending on the company performance such as its efficiency, liquidity, profitability, and stability. We should look at the ratios when we compare Google vs Wal-Mart: Return of Investment (ROI, which is related to the efficiency of the investment for the company) for Google 14.15; Wal-Mart 14.31; Return on Equity (ROE, how much profit a company makes with money from shareholders) for Google 15.55 and Wal-Mart 23.30.

  Negotiations? Big deal in business finance when making a contract with an artist. 120 millions deal for Madonna in which she is getting 90 % of the concert sales, and also 50% of licensing money? In the top of that, LIve Nation is releasing $17.5 million to the artist in advance, plus another $50 to 60 million dollars when she delivers the music for some CD’s.!!!?????

What!!??? Are you crazy? She is going to steal even the clothes that I am wearing on! There should be a point where the artist knows when enough is enough! Do not worry my son- it seems to me that the CEO, Mr Rapino from Live Nation is telling me- everything is about finances! “We got the Madonna 2014 tour at 2008 prices… We project that Madonna will gross over $1 billion in this 10 years. She's working to generate the $1 billion, not the $100 million schedule that we're going to pay her over time. That's just the appetizer.” Everything is about finances; the money that you spend in the present time will grow in the future because “time is money”. It is like buying a house at $100,000 at the present time, and within 15 years that same house will value $140,000.00 because of the rate of inflation, interest, and time value of money. You see? I take off my hat for Mr. Rapino. Nice move, and above all, a whole concept about finances and time value of money.

Decisions in business? How would you know if an opportunity for business is good at the present time, and will be good in the future, taking into consideration the different rates associated for that loan?

R: By analyzing the profit that will be made in the future minus the cost at the present time. Formula? NPV= PVB-PVC

How would you know if an investment of $100,000 would return, at what rate, and within what time? Payback= C/ATB

I could go on, and on presenting a lot of variables and formulas that show us how taking business decisions is about critical thinking and finances.

  As I said before, and I repeat it again: everything in business is about time, rate, money and finances, specially finances which is the key to analyze proposals to get the best deal that should be represented in profit, profit, and profit.

What did I learn from this course? Finances, is the most important key to make business profitable

    REFERENCES

  http://www.reuters.com/search?blob=google

http://www.reuters.com/finance/stocks/overview?symbol=WMT.N

https://assethub.online.fullsail.edu/assethub/Disc-LiveNation_f423bde6-646a-4a15-8a27-0cca269e8a6d.pdf

https://assethub.online.fullsail.edu/assethub/Disc-livenationCEOinterview_bafe6c0b-19ef-465e-8dd6-56fa1eab2982.pdf

How To Write Friendships Pt. 2

🦢        ―        &. FRIENDSHIPS . ( steps to develop friendships )

4) Give Them A History That Shines Through.

By no means do you want them to seem like they just met each other yesterday, if your two friends have known each other for a while now. What you need to do is throw out hints that these friends have known each other for a while ― you need to make the readers curious about these two friends and their history with each other.

And even if your characters meet within the timeline of the story, sneaking in hints that these characters are learning more about each other is a great way to develop your friendship.

Here are a few ways to show that:

1) Give Them An Inside Joke.

2) Give Them A Silly, On-going Argument.

Friends aren’t always going to agree on everything and their points of conflict don’t always have to be some dramatic issue ― they can be arguing over which one is better: Star Trek or Star Wars, they can argue over whether pineapple belong on pizza or not or maybe they argue over who is the taller one.

Giving them a silly, ongoing argument will make the characters feel real and simultaneously reveal different shades of their personality. Not only that, but it also offers a window into how they handle arguments between themselves. Who is the one that gets really worked up? Who is the one who makes all the great points?

3) Utilize Nonverbal Communication.

When you can start communicating with someone without words, that's when you really know someone. For example:

Let your characters be comfortable sitting in silence with each other

Use gestures and facial expressions to convey meaning to each other

Give them an unspoken rule

One friend asks a question, the other answers with silence

They can predict what each other are going to do

5) Create A Glue.

What is keeping your friends from parting ways? Without something to keep them together, your characters might grow apart. What is the glue that keeps this friendship intact? This can be a character, a goal, or the two of them are just thrown into a situation where they can't get away from each other.

One friend is the gardener of the other

The two of them must deliver a secret message to a Jedi

They both go the same extracurricular club 

They are toys who both have been captured by an evil kid who likes to torture toys

One friend can't  achieve his story goal without helping the other friend win a cart race

6) Create Meaningful Scenes.

Now that you have all the key components to an amazing friendship, it’s time to develop it through your story. Insert a few key friendship moments in your novel and show your reader the power of this relationship. 

Here are some ideas:

One friend gives the other a gift

They play a game together

They share a jacket 

They eat food together

They teach each other something

One friend gives the other a foot massage

7) Don't Make Their Relationship Perfect.

People aren’t perfect, and your friends can’t get along together all the time. But that doesn't mean you should stuff in a bunch of contrived conflict between your friendships. Instead, set up situations that will naturally occur because of who these characters are, and what they believe.

Maybe their differences get the better of them, maybe they react differently to a pivotal event in your novel, maybe one of the friend's internal demons gets the better of them, and the other friend has to call them out on it. This only results in more tension between them. This is an especially brilliant method to enhance a character arc.

Or simply make their friendship a more complex. Perhaps your two characters look out for one another, but they are always being compared to one another, and they need to overcome their deep feelings of jealousy for each other or they work well together, but one friend is keeping a lot of secrets from the other.

These complications and character differences not only add to your story, but watching these characters overcome these obstacles and still come out as friends makes your friendship feel more real, deep, and deserved.

Capitulo 7: Las historias se repiten

Por ahora nadie los ve, pero acaban de destruir el satélite Juno que gira alrededor de Jupiter, y van camino a la Tierra con una flotilla de 16000 naves espaciales, 3 mil submarinos camuflageados dentro de cohetes y cuyo propósito es entrar en las aguas de la Tierra, traen también 40 mil tanques de guerra, apostados en las plataformas de asteroides, y escondidos como los caballos de Troya bajo las rocas, con tecnología láser para apostar una flotilla en la exosfera y a la órden de mando, todos los sátelites de la Tierra caerían como moscas con aerosol en el espacio, que construyeron en sus galaxias, sin la mirada terrestre que tenían travez de sus satellites desparramados travez de las galaxias.

*Cuánto falta para llegar, pregunta Volka, el capitán de la nave, y de la tripulación mientras mira las estrellas que pasan a su alrededor, y la estela de nubes que sus naves dejan al pasar las velocidades del tiempo varias veces, y cuyo fenómeno puede ser observado en la Tierra como una nube de gases tóxicos porque aún las distancias no son lo suficientes para distinguir verdaderamente los objetos en la lejanía, y el satélite que tenìa la posibilidad de observarlo todo, en esa distancia, acaba de ser destruido.

“Quince días” expresa el Almirante tras checar los instrumentos de Registro que indicaban 787,000,000 kilómetros para llegar a la Tierra.

Digámelo en horas Almirante, expresó Volka tras sentir un cosquilleo en su piel por la misión que está por completar, y tratando de acortar los tiempos y tener ideas de la proximidad de su misión.

360 horas terrestres, agregò el Almirante Irko, dos semanas, Comandante.

Y Volka sonrió y movió sus labios en señal de satisfacción, sintiendo esa agrado de las misiones cuando están a punto de empezar. Volteó a su alrededor de su ventana de oficial de mando, con su cobertura de 180 grados, y miró la inmensidad de su flotilla como mares vastos cuyas olas pasan y retoman y bañan todo lo que existe a su paso. Millas y millas alrededor de naves que parecían como abejas que se acercan a un panal, excepto, que en este caso, la miel era a la Tierra que pretenden conquistar, si todo salía como lo previsto, porque tratar con el genéro humano es siempre tratar con los impredescible cuando se mira empujado entre la espada y la pared.

Volka había nacido en Jupiter. Sus tatarabuelos habían sido inmigrantes de las regiones de Kasgar China, y el país, en una de sus innumerables expediciones espaciales, decide enviar parte de su población rebelde a una colonia alejada para conquistar el planeta, y procesar todos sus elementos provenientes de Siankiang. 

Estas oleadas de humanos en el planeta, a la par de una multitud de científicos, hicieron posible la conquista del planeta Júpiter, porque transportaron hidrógeno, que sustraían de ahí con enormes y gigantes aspiradores y después los procesaban en recipientes de kilómetros y kilómetros para distribuir alrededor de la galaxia, y por el cual obtenían tremendas ganancias de un planeta que daba a borbotones el especial líquido. Pero la vida ahí era inhumana, trabajando tres cuartos del día y sólo unas horas de descanso. Por sistemas de gobierno, eso era apropiado para mantener la mente ocupada en seguir un procedimiento, una producción que rendía frutos en oro al gobierno, por lo cual los sistemas de producción eran aberrantes y extenuares y parecieran los sistemas de esclavos en las antigüas colonias afroamericanas de los 1800’s. 

Volka sabía lo que era el trabajo extenuante. Lo había vivido, por eso se juró a sí mismo ante su tatara-abuelo que liberaría a su pueblo de las extenuares ligaduras con un sistema que les comprimía el alma, y empezó a introducirse en el terreno militar, y poco a poco asciende tras llegar a ser lo que era hoy: General de 5 estrellas con una misión que el país afitrión pensó que realizaraía para ellos, excepto que la mente del general estaba en su pueblo y su sacrificio, y hubo rebelión en sus mandos que Volka manejó con destreza para que coroneles, lugartenientes, cabos, soldados le siguieran y ahí estaban hoy. 

El almirante Irko, su viejo amigo tambien lo sabía. Sabia que estaba precisamente en ese momento histórico donde empujaba por un cambio, o las repeticiones de los mismos sistemas, en círculos viciosos, dejarían donde mismo. Era tiempo de un cambio, por eso estaba ahí.

Todas las historias de las civilizaciones empiezan así. 

Las civilizaciones tienen sus etapas de grandezas o infortunio dependiendo de las decisiones que toman y cómo entrelazan y resuelven las grandes riesgos de su crecimiento. Su grandeza o decadencia, estará en la medida que resuelvan los problemas ingentes que los agobian. 

Si algo enseńan las antigüas civilizaciones de la otrora Tierra en sus inicios, era como el del Imperio Romano o el de Grecia, o el Imperio Francés o Español o Americano o Británico, es que los grandes movimientos radicales en el interior de sus filas, crearán los semilleros de buenas frutas que los harán crecer o perderse, en una ley del péndulo que solamente vira de izquierdas a derechas atraves de la humanidad y alrededor de los tiempos.

La vida en Karkamistán no era diferente, ni la de sus hombres, por lo que parecía ya venir a una cultura atrayente, con una metrópoli que la vida le había dado todo, y todo estaba a sus pies: tecnologìa, recursos humanos, tierras, aguas, innovaciones que están a la luz de otros, y esos otros desean poseer lo mismo en otras tierras y lugares lejanos.

La naturaleza humana, sigue presentándose igual atravez de todas las historias antigüas, contemporáneas o futuras…. La ley del péndulo invariable, reconocible atravez del tiempo, donde existen seres humanos dignos de encomienda por las labores y trabajos que realizan, y como todas las historias, los humanos siembran o destruyen sus propias ecologías con sus planteamientos, con sus direcciones, con sus actuaciones.  

Porque aqui ya estaba la trama y era, una vez más, si la historia de la humanidad podría generar nuevos sistemas para su propia sobrevivencia, e inclusión de nuevas culturas sin dejar cortaduras en la piel de los nuevas generaciones que están por venir. 

Así pues, este era el momento, era el momento de la historia, y las historias estaban hechas de grandes hombres y grandes civilizaciones.  A donde iría la humanidad estaba por verse, porque dependería de su talento, de su entrega, de su capacidad para proteger la vida, pero también de pelearla por sobrevivencia, no por dominio, y era ahi donde quizás, se pudiera ganar la Guerra que se venia, no por una cuestión de dominio, sino mas bien de sobrevivencia, porque ya la cuestión no era el promulgar edictos buenos o malos, leyes que promuevan bienestar o edictos que afecten a poblaciones, sino más bien, se trata de la vida de las personas en un tiempo determinado, con una causa, con una vision de vida. 

Y las respuestas a todas esas preguntas estaban por venir, porque apenas habían destruído el satélite Juno, gravitando atravez deJupiter.

Worldbuilding Questions: Other* Cultures - a handy list for writers with little time

(*not the main characters')

After my extensive [list of questions for towns and cities] for your main setting, there will also be many countries, regions and cultures mentioned in your project, that aren't central to the plot, that you don't have time to delve into detail about, but that still should feel 'real'.

For this use (or, really, in general, if you don't have much time to worldbuild before you start your first draft), I prepared a list with 10 very rough, basic questions to make your world feel alive:

What is their most important export good or economy?

What was the most important event in their recent history, and how long ago did it happen?

What do people from that place wear and how do they style? Are they distinguishable in a crowd?

What is their language, and is it understandable for your narrator? Do they have an accent?

What are they famous for? (People from there, their humor, their food, their skills at something...)?

Are or were they at war / at the brink of war with other people; esp. with those at the center of your story?

What is their most important difference to your "main" / narrator's culture? (Religion, society, economy...?)

Are representatives of that culture seen often in your setting?

What is something outsiders say about them?

What do they say about themselves?

I recommend thinking about these for your side character's home cultures, as well as for your setting's most important regions and neighboring countries. Five or so might even be enough, just as a handy ressource to make your setting feel alive and real.