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Okay...is it a gay movie?

“Together, they would watch everything that was so carefully planned collapse, and they would smile at the beauty of destruction.” I have this one in my book shop hehehehehe Markus Zusak The Book Thief Ok now my turn at last .... sigh "Ditto" Which movie?

Enid Blyton The secret seven or The Boys next door.

AaaaaaArgh .... Wipes the sweat off his brow .... Thinking thinking aaaaaargh Malory towers?

I cheated:p lol. It's a childrens author, quite famous. Passed on now. Probably the best kiddies author ever. But i dont know the title of the book. Aaaaargh

Can depression lead to other health issues? My mind tells me yes. My first lover committed suicide. I never even saw it coming. Man oh man, if only he told me what the problems were. He was 27. The thing is, in his letter, he blamed himself for making everyone's life miserable. Hoo boy! I cant talk about it. I came thru it all by writing about it. But, you know, it still haunts me to this day. If only he had said something... Mark and Stuby...(i got it right this time), what im trying to say here is communicate. Never stop talking to each other. If my Rodney had just lived by that standard, he would probably have been alive today. Communicate, do silly things, create great memories. Joekeool, you are right. My (our)problems are miniscule compared to some of the problems experienced in this topic. Hugs n respect

After having read these posts I am silently emotional. The thing is I don't have a clue what manic depression is. I hve had bouts of depression sure, for instance when a family member passes on. I truly had no idea. All i can say is what i have learned through my life: positive thoughts bring positive things. I can only imagine what Mark and Agaith and so many of you have been thru and it jolted me. I wish you well Mark and Stubby. Your lives are a gift and an example to others. At the end of the day, when all is said and done, one thing is for certain: sharing is healing. Love is medicine. And two in love can conquer their world. You guys rock!

Rebecca! Mark you are sneeky. Hmmph and to think that was one of my setworks in senior year. Ouch! That hurt. And i have the book in my library at home! Lol...

Maybe "0liver"... Hor or cold? Are we allowed to google?

Well, we cant continue the game guys until the book is Memtioned i hve no idea which book either. Dare we look it up! I think we should lol

Sorry i went by the first page - totally blonde. Continuing from Television my word is: ONcology

So how do i continue: ok heres a word: cool

Yes. My cell phone was stolen by a friend. I watched him do it. He came over to visit and to ask me for a loan, when i told him that i had no money on me, his attitude changed to oh dont worry. I went to the toilet downstairs, and when i came upstairs i noticed from a distance, he was putting something in his jacket pocket. He seemed in a real hurry to leave after that. About half hour after he left i looked for my phone in its usual place and it was gone! I tried to contact him from my landline but he wasnt answering. I phoned his father with whom i am good friends. His father sent his sister and husbsnd to me and we all went to his flat together. I begged him for twenty minutes to give my phone back. Sfter twenty minutes of denial i told him that if he gave my ph back i sould not press charges. He promptly took me to the kitchen, opened the oven fusebox lid, and gave me my phone. He had thrown away the sim card. His sister slapped him. His brother in law had to be restrained. I placed a charge against him. Dont mess with me. He has three children. His wife told me he wanted to sell the ph for drug money. He has no sympathy trom me. He spent two months doing community work for this little mistake. Mow he looks at me with murder and revenge, like i forced him to take my cell phone. Anither time....but that's amother story. What is the most personal question you have ever been asked?

So why did the guy commit suicide?

Dave, what are you doing Dave? Who is the Author? What is the title of the book?

So Mr. Smith... You certainly know how to hook a reader. Took me ten minutes thats how good the pacing, characterisation, and me hanics are. Your writing has an easy flow to it and i couldnt stop reading.

As with all of her tales before this, Neph has the remarkable ability to immerse the reader in the character. Her stories weave, they draw and embrace with minute attention to detail and Unaware does just that. Her plots are character driven, and lets face it, we love to read about the misfits, the unjust, the shallow courtships, the stranger than fiction, especially in this genre. Unaware is not a meak silly little story. It has all the ingredients of a well defined plot and strange characters. We find ourselves understanding of the pressures involved in being a loner as her main character surely is, we find ourselves wanting because in most instances we have all been there. A character who is unaware, aloof, cold but present. A character drawn to look into himself as we all do at times, if only to find something, someone else, some form to bind ourselves to. As writers we all do this. Its called magic. And she has done it again in this first chapter which i thorougy enjoyed. Im looking forward to the next instalment.

I dont know souch about ballet d, all i know is i may have to go back to the drawing board and restructure the mechanics. Its not working and i knew it wouldn't but comtinued none the less. Hve a bootiful day/ evening and thx for reading bro.

The Art Of Capturing Stars QIN DYNASTY Several bursts of brilliant energy emanated from the region of Aries, leaving behind a black rip in the night sky. They sped toward Earth and within several seconds converged into a single ray of white light. The moment they reached the atmosphere of the earth, causing major blackouts and fear, Alpha Arietis , Beta Arietis, Gamma Arietis and Lambda Pi 30[i], all the major stars in the constellation entered the candle in a blinding explosion t

Yup u got it right. Ill be updating this story shortly with description of characters and more motivation. Thnks for reading bud.

Nice thought provoking piece. We could laugh, but I won't. Cool play on words.

I write the same way. However, when I get stuck on anything, I refer to these research and books on body language, and ... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . The dictionary. My writing bible. Since discovering the SECRET of description, the dictionary is always on my desk. Three of them. well it's not really a secret....errrr

One of the things that has annoyed me many times as I read was the way poor word choices fail to describe the character, their actions, or their speech properly. If you have a brainy character who happens to be top of their class and they say, "We don't got a hope to save ourselves." then you're obviously not keeping the character 'in character'. Yup, the example you mention is a badly written sentence, unless the character is created to speak like that. My main characters have distinctive voices in many of my stories. In my published work called Revival, one of the main characters, Tomas, has just recovered from a fifteen year coma, later on he develops a speech impediment. He cannot pronounce S, so he substitutes T for the letter S. Another aspect of this is word choice, especially for actions. A teenager might stomp across a room or slouch but you'd expect a small child to dart or skip. An adult might stride across the room if they are a confident character or scurry if they are scared or a less dominant character. I once read a published ebook where a female character comes into a room to her remaining 2 werewolf mates after one had just been killed. She 'sauntered' into the room. Would I saunter (stroll or walk leisurely) to the remaining loves in my life when they are holding the one who died? Heck no! I'd be rushing or bursting into the room. That single word choice ruined the scene for me and made it completely unbelievable. (Yes, I know werewolves aren't real but they were in this world I believe Werewolves take things in their stride...lol. Maybe the author of the werewolf piece understands the female character's motivations and hopefully showed the reader why she behaved as she did. Maybe he has chosen this detail in keeping with the character's personality. Stating that she sauntered without explaining might impress some readers, but without a clear motivation, the character's action might seem out of place as you noticed while reading the piece. If the writer wrote sorrow into her eye language, that would have been enough for the reader. Sorrow and depression affect our eye language, according to Jane Lyle, expert on BL One of the biggest keys to creating dynamic characters, beyond keeping them in character and using proper word choices for their personality/age/role, is to consider 'status'. Your hero needs to be someone the reader can admire, respect, lust after. That means giving them a higher 'status' than the characters around them. They need to have confident demeanors, strong word choices when it comes to the verbs you use to describe their actions. The villian also needs to have a high status, but never higher than the hero. However, one isn't always high status. A real person has people they turn to, moments of doubt... you need to create those small clues to the reader to show that the hero isn't always perfect, the villian isn't always a completely evil person, or it's just not believable. Even in fiction, we must work within the structure of what the reader will and will not accept. The perfect man or an unrelentingly evil villian? Boring and flat. Stored away in my head is a character checklist I use whenever I'm introducing a character, or writing about a character: Does my characterization have enough detailsto create a strong visual image? Have I chosen details in keeping with the Character's personality? Have I chosen words that reinforce the kind of character I want to create? For example, "She strode across the field. Her umbrella engaged the elements in a fully fledged battle. Her raaincoat an armourfrom the downpour. Have I chosen too mnay details when One good detail is worth a thousand weak ones? Have I used these details when we first encountered the character? The reader must understand the character's motivations even if he doesn't agree with them. The writer must SHOWus why he's behaving as he does and give the reader a platform to establish empathy or belief with these people. James Frey said, "Lets face it, I don't want to read about characters who are just anybody. I want to read about interesting somebodies, characters capable of evoking in me an emotional response." ' Character is the heartbeat of any story. They are interesting people in terrible difficulties. I read a story not only for the story, but also for intimacy. I want to move into a character's life, live inside his thoughts and emotions and take on his goals and problems, therefore, i create flawed characters. The characters who impressed me in my life are: Scrooge, Madame Bovary, Holden Caulfield, Atticus Finch, Don Corleone, Nancy Drew, jay Gatsby and Scarlett o Hara. To me, these characters have stature, presence and flair because they are memorable. Eye Contact: You are right that eye language varies from culture to culture. Mediterranean people like to stare at strangers in public places. Arabs look at a person when talking and listening Japanese people look at each other's necks during conversation and hardly use a direct mutual gaze. I tend to look people in the eye when communicating. Minimal eye contact, to me, is a turn off. The shifty eye: glancing to and fro while talking, maybe searching for an exit or a more interesting companion. The stuttering eye: where the eye cannot decide whther to open or close their lids, a disconcerting nervous flicker. The evasive eye: staring sightlessly into the air or down at the ground, the speaker is unable to meet your gaze for any length of time. The person seems to be in another world, so near yet so far. The Stammering eye: A lengthy blink, lasting several seconds longer than normal. So all in all, the depiction of character should always be planned. William Hazlitt said: "I like a friend better for having faults that one can talk about" Oscar Wilde said: "Only the shallow know themselves." Anonymous said: "The lawyer's best client is a scared millionaire" Jean-Amedee d'Aurevilly said: "When God providessa beautiful woman, the devilat once retorts with a fool to keep her." Thank you for all your hard work on GA, this is one guy who appreciates your imput.

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Hey Cheryl...law has fascinated me too and were it not for undesirable circumstances I would have become a lawyer, instead i opted to be closer to home and studied Horticulture instead. Never been happier. My plants talk to me...errr. I'm lying- about the plants that speak to me. You speak about the truth of the matter and i believe there are many shades of grey between the little white lie and the completely untrue falsehood. But what if I put it to you that, in certain situations we all enjoy being decieved. Or rather let me say it like this, actors, conjurors and magicians are all lying to their audience....oh, and lawyers lol. We all like seeing justice done, but we also enjoy the entertainment of digging deeper to get to those fine threads of deception and intrigue. What I noticed about people who do not tell the truth, is that they rub, stroke, scratch their noses more frequently than a truthful person. But the successful liar has total control over his body language. It's easy to lie over the phone, or by email and even get away with it in today's technical social network society. I mean, i say i'm 53 here on GA, but I could just as easily be 76. LOL It's true that the mind might want or need to lie and is capable of inventing a story that rarely goes along with this, and the body betrays the mind. Hence, the signals that liars give out are notice by you. A lie detector can detect what's going on in the nervous system, but facial expressions can be manipulated by the mind and detected by the witness. Jane Lyle, an expert on body language, says that when someone chooses to lie during a conversation, he or she will often suddenly cross arms or legs simultaneously. A self defence against challenge. Feet point toward an exit wanting to escape the situation. Foot jabbing movements in the air. Fidgety gestures include things like foot tapping, restlessness, jingling coins. But the hands and posture also tell the truth about a liar. We use our hands to amplify the meaning of what we say. The hand shrug says, this has nbothing to do with us. Eye rubbing. Nose touching. and the listener twiddles his ear or rubs his chin expressing doubt as to the truth of what has been said. Sometimes people are surprised by their own lie and instead of covering their mouth as in childhood, the moivement is deflected to the nose. Touching the face, ears and neck also indicate nervousness. Our voices become less resonent when we lie. The voice flattens and looses depth. Becomes monotonous, because a liar cannot express himself freely. people talk less when they are lying. make mistakes Um and aah. stutter, slur, hesitate, unless they are expert conmen. See how all these are really signals of concealment. But be careful, not every nose rub indicates a lie...lol. See how many active verbs are highlighted. Beautiful.