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The Occupation Thesaurus: A Writer's Guide to Jobs, Vocations, and Careers by Angela Ackerman & Becca Puglisi is another book in the Thesaurus series of writing support books that gives you details on various occupations. Common traits, common skills, common conflicts they are involved in. A great resource for making a more well-rounded, less cliche characters. Definitely another one a writer should be keeping in their library.

This is a very addicting game. You play as long as you can survive, die and start over. What keeps you going is finding out the story, which is really quite interesting. The music is cool and the voice acting is top notch. Excellent game. I sunk a LOT of hours into it as a way to unwind after a long day of work. Pretty inexpensive too. And it's on all platforms, I think. worth checking out!

I figured I'd wrap up the current 3 movie timeline. (For the record, the money-losing disaster that was the start of the Hollywood crap show of the last few years "Ghostbusters 2016" is not part of canon at idiot director Paul Fool's insistence) This movie is kind of an apology from Sony for the above mentioned crap show. It has plenty of little fan thank yous. And the main plotline is actually a pretty touching tribute. Also of interesting note, they forced Bill Murray to appear in the 2016 crapshow by threatening to sue him... he appeared in this one because he wanted to. I think this movie is also the bookend of the 2016-2021 run of the "destroy and subvert everything that came before" with the 2016 crapshow Ghostbusters. I have no idea why huge companies by these popular franchises and they set up to piss off the fans and expect that attract more new ones? Good movie. A good example of how to not lecture your audience...

Ghostbusters II was not quite as good as Ghostbusters, but it was still an enjoyable movie. Well worth watching nonetheless. Funny. I love the ghost train and ghost titanic.

Truly a comedy/horror classic. I, of course, have the 4k movie. Definitely worth the entertainment factor.

This is one heck of a tome. Guy Sclanders has a wonderful YouTube Channel that goes into a lot of topics beyond his books as well. Aside from being a professional artist, game master and author, he's also on our team as a fellow gay creator. There are some really nice techniques described in this book about giving the bad guy goals and motivations. I think this can help us as writers as well, writing it down and when the muse causes us to deviate, the villain will have to adjust his plans too. Not to dissimilar to when Players deviate from a planned story from a game/dungeon master. Even if you aren't a gamer and are just writing a story, the ideas, concepts, motivations etc, help fill in the world and give the sense of purpose to those characters that would otherwise just be milling about.

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Ultimate Guide to Alchemy, Crafting & Enchanting by Nord Games is one of the many Role Playing Game resources that I have in my library. I love world building. One of the keys to making a world functional for stories is to have the actions and reactions of the world follow rules. They may not be rules you tell your readers about. But if pulling the level makes the door open, then the doors should open when you pull the lever... or a surprise should occur. Books like this one, I use as inspiration for how to do world building. What do you think about? how do you quantify it? You don't need to go to the level that games do to make things work, of course. But having thought about it, it at least makes things consistent, which reduces reader's confusion, which increases reader's satisfaction. This particular book, is an interesting look into the creating of potions and magical artifacts. Very handy if you have a magic filled world. Or if you want to create that extra special McGuffin. Fun book, nice art.

The Urban Setting Thesaurus by Angela Ackerman & Becca Publisi is another book in their excellent series of Thesaurus books. This one, obviously, focuses on locations you'd find in an urban setting. Like the Rural version we covered yesterday, this one may not be used as often as some of the other books in the series. It is, however, an excellent resource to have in your library. Like the Rural book, this gives you ways to engage all the senses in different places. They also include some common conflicts you might encounter in these settings. Check it out!

The Rural Setting Thesaurus by Angela Ackerman & Becca Puglist is another book writer's should have in their reference library. This one, as the name suggests, covers common rural areas. This one is especially handy for people that mostly spend time in cities and need to describe a country location with more details than you'd get from looking at a picture of barn. Like the other books in the series, this book gives you something for all the senses to add that little extra depth to your writing. Definitely a must have!

I have been doing some deep diving on different aspects of writing for awhile now. There are a number of books in the series from Angele Ackerman & Becca Puglisi. I have posted a couple so far, but here is "The Emotion Thesaurus: A Writer's Guide to Character Expression". I have the entire series and there is a ton of great content in here. Unless you are a bit obsessed with deep diving, this is not a book you'll read from cover to cover. It is, however, a great reference book for engaging all of your senses and expanding the "Show, don't tell" methods of story telling. Trying to write a character reaction? Look up the emotion you want and read through the entry. It gives you common behaviors, body actions that show that emotion without the writing "He felt X" Definitely very handy to have your personal library if you want to grow your writing skills.

This was an interesting spin on sci-fi. The special effects and visuals were really good. I have added the 4k Blu-Ray to my library. If you haven't seen it and you like sci-fi and some action, check it out. It's been out long enough that you should be able to find it on one of those streaming services.

Looking at the code, it appears that font size, font color, and font background were set. As you can see from what you are currently experiencing, the sheer number of combos of writing software, browsers and whatever means there is no one answer to what causes this. My past experience, and it is written in FAQ, says that if you have default text size, default text type and only use italics, you can copy and past into the editor with no issue. But you must check when it posts. Both the dark mode text and text resizing are broke. You can edit the chapter and do what usually works, pasting from your Mac and not your iPad. or you can use highlight your text and hit the Text Format Remover button Be aware that since you used italics, you'll need to reapply. Either way, please verify your chapters work when they are posted. The text controls are critical for readability for many members.