certain bribes were to be paid. The last phone conversation between them being Mr. Chai hanging up after saying, “Don’t disappoint me again.” Ms. Zhang knew she did not have much
There’s a really fine line, when writing stories set in dream worlds with nightmarish denizens and frustrated teens, between well-crafted worlds that make a certain kind of necessary sense even if it’s not obvious to the reader at first, and self-indulgent whimsy that may have made sense...
Overpass API This simple online tool shows Open Street Map changes over a certain date range. localfocus.nl/geokit geographic toolkit for investigative journalists Google Maps Scraper Enter search terms (ex "Boston museum") and scrape adresses, phone, websites and other place info from Google Maps...
Certain nonfiction genres won’t lend themselves to that kind of conflict, of course, but you can still inject tension by setting up your reader for a payoff in later chapters. Check out some of the current bestselling nonfiction works to see how writers accomplish this. Somehow they keep yo...
A victim (in the case of Luke Skywalker's invitation from Princess Leia inStar Wars: A New Hope, or Katniss's need to save her sister Prim inThe Hunger Games) A mentor (in the case of Frodo's invitation from Gandalf in Lord of the Rings, or Harry Potter's invitation to Hogwarts fro...
But I think I only have a certain threshold tolerance for how much I can write and push out into the world and watch it not being seen and read. And right now I'm querying and it is soul-destroying enough without also writing blog posts that nobody reads.I left Twitter nearly a ...
My only criticism (and it almost threw the film for me in certain respects): there is a rather uncomfortable tag during the end credits that has a big thank you to all the policemen working in China, giving all their time and their lives. I find this difficult for me to gauge. It’...
and the food they ate was not the natural produce of the soil but they tore apart the limbs of strangers and so got their food from the ill lot of hapless men. Heracles, in order to control them, threw to them their master Diomedes, and when he had satisfied the hunger of the animal...
We spend so much of our childhoods yearning for responsibility and the freedom that being of a certain age brings, but most of us probably failed to appreciate just how good we had it as carefree kids. And now, we are expected to transform ourselves into responsible grown-ups who have to...
preferred to maintain a certain artiness to the fairly simple (if not pretty banal) story where a jealous judge uses his influence with the military to arrest a jeweler's wife (played Japan’s “Rope Queen,” Naomi Tani) and torture her to tempter his seething, Roman hunger for depravity...