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  • Cole Matthews

    Arts and Crafts - Character-istics

    By Cole Matthews

    What elements make for a believable character?  What can writers add that aids in the complete and utter suspension of disbelief?  Lots of thing come to mind like quirks, back stories, associations, inner thoughts, tribulations - and the list goes on and on.  However, something many authors have done with beloved recurring characters is to give them hobbies.  Certainly Sherlock Holmes had several and varied 'pursuits'.  Agatha Christie had Miss Marple constantly knitting.  Let's try rounding out
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;; " .MidnightSecret. " ;;

[Eternal Insomnia]

1001 Sheeps... 1002 Sheeps... 1003 Sheeps... ...   Forget it, all this counting is starting to irritate me. I think it's been about 3 days? I think I'm sleeping but yet I'm widely awake? I think I might go crazy.   I try and I try so hard to close my eyes, but I only find myself staring at that same ceiling in perpetual horror. Perhaps I should decorate all its emptiness with bright glowing stars... Gleaming with hope, I guess.   Sigh; I tried to demand myself to fa
MidnightSecret

MidnightSecret

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jamessavik's Blog

Why Westburo/Phelps Phails Miserably

Check it:   I Corinthians 13:   4Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. 5It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. 6Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. 7It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.   8Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will cease; where there are tongues, they will be stilled; where there is knowledge, it will
JamesSavik

JamesSavik

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Vic's Blog

Proactive pays off

So, I manned up/grew some and took some advice given here. I mentally pledged to stop with the head games & the active ignoring. If I saw Gym Crush, I would say hi, no matter if I said it first or not. I was going to start acting like an adult and treat him like I would anyone else.   So anyways....I was finishing up at the gym this evening, and Gym Crush shows up. I had a few more minutes on the rowing machine, which was very close to where Gym Crush does this special workout that he'
NaperVic

NaperVic

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jamessavik's Blog

been a long time

I finished my first week of work in a permanent job this afternoon. It's been a long time since I knew where my next check was coming from.   Don't get me wrong. Contracts can be fun- if you can get enough work to survive. It's feast or famine and way too much famine.   I don't make the same hourly rate but I'll make much more over the long haul because of consistency. No weeks (or months *shudders*) in between.   It's so good to go home for the weekend and know the job will be there on Mo
JamesSavik

JamesSavik

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Vic's Blog

"Hey Vic!"

So it's been a couple weeks since I invited Gym Crush to go running, and not surprisingly, he hasn't shown up at 5am to run.   I've seen him several times at the gym since our last 'chat', but never close enough or convenient enough to make small talk. I also swear a few times we were close enough, but he never made eye contact with me so that we could chat (which in my mind meant he didn't even remember who I was or even if he recognized me).   I was starting to get really frustrated with
NaperVic

NaperVic

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Owls' hoot's

Some bad news. Please read.

Hey Yall,   This might be in bad form or something to the effect but this is the only way that I could think of to let everyone know the situation.   Some of you might know that my mother and I have been living with her boyfriend. What you don't know is that he has been sick, badly, these last few weeks and has passed away today. Because of this the next few months are going to be difficult here. We won't be able to stay where we are, can't afford the rent, so we'll be working on moving
NightOwl88

NightOwl88

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Eric's Blog

Schrödinger's Cat

Schrödinger's Cat   This is a commonly used idea in regards to describe a paradox in which a cat is placed in a box with a vial of poison with a hammer held overhead. A radioactive isotope is used to fray the hammer's string holding it up and once it breaks, if it does, the cat exists in two phases, living and dead because the box holding the poison and cat are opaque. The two planes of existence are only broken when one supersedes the other by intervention of another plane of existence. The
Phantom

Phantom

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Reset, Reload, Redo

Waste of a Day - i.e. Time I Will Never Get Back

Having the day off is such a wonderful thing - most of the time. This week, despite being 'furloughed' on Monday - which is a crock of pig dung because a furlough is not the taking of a day's pay, it is the taking of a day's pay and telling you that you don't have to work. What they did was take away a paid holiday but call it a furlough so they don't have to give us a day off which is how it is supposed to be - but I digress.   I was trying to be productive. I have a list of things I want
Andrew Q Gordon

Andrew Q Gordon

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My kingdom by the sea

strangers we become

i vent my frustration through thought-and maybe i feel better     If I were to feel happy for someone, a friend, rather than annoyance and hate, would I feel better as a person? I can get over things like a champion, if it was an Olympic sport I'd get f**king gold, should I do that? Dust in the wind? But that is just heartless, then again, I have not much heart left.   Should I care? Caring is for the weak, peons, slaves, not for warriors and high generals. We let others care for us. Let m
thatboyChase

thatboyChase

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jamessavik's Blog

Noise- Darin Bradley

Noise by Darin Bradley   This is one of the most timely and brilliantly conceived novels that I've read in a long time.   Timely because it doesn't take a great deal of imagination to know that there are big changes coming. Whether our society is elastic enough or will break under the pressure is an open question.   Brilliant from a writers perspective because the author uses his words like an artist uses a dry brush to get just the right color.   Given the shape of the world today, wh
JamesSavik

JamesSavik

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Methodwriter85's Blog

More University of Delaware Stupidity

Just when I thought UD couldn't come up with even more inane ideas...they proved me wrong.....   UD Wants to Close Academy Street   See, I get the principle of what they're trying to do- they're trying to create a more closed, Ivy-League like campus(like say, UPenn), and what they have to do to achieve that is to get rid of throroughfares.   Still, Academy Street is just way too critical north-south route to close like, especially when you consider the fire station
methodwriter85

methodwriter85

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My kingdom by the sea

jelly

one issue I have with myself is that when I get jealous...I get jealousss. It isn't the pyscho bitch jealous though, its me in my head jealous, being angry at whomever I am jealous over. I don't get jealous often, which might explain why i take it so seriously. the other reoccurring theme is that its something i SHOULDN'T be jealous over. im sure i'll be over it tomorrow.   I had a most enjoyable weekend. I went up north to a buddies lake house and partied, one of the guys there i had ban
thatboyChase

thatboyChase

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The River Song

For those who may be politically interested

Earlier this month, the HM Government passed the electoral reform bill. This contained a number of reforms, but the two main points are (1) Equalization of the sizes of constituencies, (2) a reduction int he overall number of MP's and (3) a referendum on a change in the voting system.   Our current voting system is called "First Past The Post" or FPTP, which is to say, you cast your vote, and the person with the most votes wins. It's relatively simple, and actually the vast majority of natio
Westie

Westie

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jamessavik's Blog

Big Time Win

I'm FINALLY back in the big time.   All of those certifications that I earned have finally paid off.   I start Monday as the Systems Administrator for a mid size law firm.   After years of working contracts, I've got a REAL job again.   Not to worry. I will continue to write.   I have a new story coming out for the Spring Anthology that I think will be pretty good according to my beta readers.   That story has me developing another several stories set in the seventies. I've dusted of
JamesSavik

JamesSavik

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Strife and Harmony

Crazy people...

Source: http://jezebel.com/#!5763110/the-woman-whos-addicted-to-eating-cigarette-ashes   None of those things sound appetizing, and most of them are downright dangerous. These people are totally psycho.
Tiger

Tiger

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jamessavik's Blog

What hell looks like

My cousin was diagnosed with terminal cancer last summer. We have tried to keep in touch as best we could but we got word last night that it was only a matter of hours.   I drove my Mom to Pascagoula, MS this morning and arrived at the hospice where my cousin is staying for her last days.   As soon as I entered the place it was like stepping into hell. There were people in various stages of excruciating death in every room. The first sound I heard was a man screaming for morphine.   It tur
JamesSavik

JamesSavik

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Reset, Reload, Redo

Sixteen Candles - or years in my case.

Saturday marks sixteen years Mike and I have been together. There have been ups and downs, but as I write this I have a rush of emotions that remind me how lucky I am. I was talking to someone about relationships, someone in their twenties who lamented they hadn't met anyone, had never been in love and how sad that made them. It got me thinking.   I've been out for about half my life. I came out when I was twenty three. Had my first 'boyfriend' that year. I don't know how many dates I w
Andrew Q Gordon

Andrew Q Gordon

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jamessavik's Blog

My new meme

Everybody seems to have a meme these days.   After lots of coffee, doughnuts and revolting research into pop culture, I have come up with mine.   Here it is:   This XXXX business will get out of control! It will get out of control and we'll be lucky to live through it!   It come from the Hunt for Red October. The US carrier group is emperiled by the proximity of Soviet naval vessels and aircraft. The Admiral utters this line.   Now for use on the internets, I use it a little differen
JamesSavik

JamesSavik

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Random Thought's

Changes

Since I have last blogged… some things have happened.       I no longer have to deal with my sexist co-worker. We changed teams in October and he landed on a different team. I still remain friendly towards him, but I am glad I no longer see him everyday. He did seek me out quite a bit when he had problems with customers and it felt good to tell him I could no longer help him. I didn’t land up with my favorite supervisor, but I did get and evil one, which sped up my looking for a new job.
AquariusGuy

AquariusGuy

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Eric's Blog

Bye bye moto droid...

Well I ain't gonna miss it anytime soon, my droid phone. It's been acting up and not hanging up on calls when I end them, and the screen was messed up as well as in it wouldn't read my touches right. Maybe I gave it a bad touch... But who knows and who cares. I hate android... Well moto droid.   So I went out last night and replaced it with, yes an iPhone on Verizon. I LOVE it. I got all my old apps from the iPad on here (that are compatible) and I also got a few new ones. It's faster then my
Phantom

Phantom

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The River Song

Something sure to cheer you up ....

it always works for me....   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZSveKqj1IRQ         *** edit - apologies, changed the video, as i only cared about the lyrics, i didn't realize how appalling the original video was....    
Westie

Westie

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