geng collected the essence of musical elements of many ethnicities that reside in YunNan Province, and released into the musical river of world music, providing the world with much richer and refreshingly new resources. When we listen to his music we can almost experience the c...
when the scene is being set, we as readers need to learn something about our main character that gives us a reason to care. If we are not given a reason to care, we may not even continue reading. For example, I turned off the movie Taken...
Once I’d moved to San Diego, I now had access to it that I never had on the other coast. On a lunch break at work, my friend Marci offered me a piece of her California roll from the sushi place next door. One bite and that was it for me. I’ve been a sushi fiend ever sin...
in who he was and what he did. I always felt like there was some aspect of every character thatwashim. And not in the “he always plays himself” way. He playedeveryoneand still was himself. He drew the essence out of each
Leif & Thorntakes place on a non-Earth fantasy planet, so there’s no 1:1 portrayal of real-world ethnicities. Even the culturally-constructed concepts of identity don’t exactly map to ours. (Because I’m the kind of nerd who enjoys working out these things.) ...
Music will help to bring the second tier of character into a component of the wedding that we traditionally do not place as much thought into personalizing, states Candice Coppola, co-author of The White Dress: Destinations; The White Dress: From Shade along with also the creative manager of...