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Mary and Max Claymation

Mary and Max is a film in Claymation that has touched my heart in so many ways. Its messages and themes are many, multifaceted, and multi layered.  To name just a few: True friendship. The universal aspects of humanity. Not fitting in and wanting to change yourself. Not fitting in and not wanting to change.  The hap hazards of life.  How people affect and effect each other. Aspergers. Depression.  Self confidence.  

In a nutshell, Adam Elliot’s writing is perfection, each word so carefully chosen, so right.  Elliot’s words bring explanation and offer understanding to those things, both spoken and unspoken, in life which can’t be explained with words. In this relation there is

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Personal Blogging Tips

This next post about personal blogging ties right in with Earth Month. (Yay!  A whole month!  It’s about time.)  How does personal blogging tie in with Earth Month?  Because the man who prompted this article has dedicated his life to a better Earth.

Glenn Fay from Love Earth Always, has just revamped his entire website.  It is, in a word, phenomenal.  I love it to pieces.  It is professional, easy to navigate, is filled with pertinent information and content that is important to everyone in the world.  Yes, it’s about our environment, and Glenn has constructed a site that helps all of us help ourselves and each other, one step at a time. 

Part of Glenn’s mission is to add a personal flare.  One of the ways he does this is by the inclusion of a personal blog that is Green centered. Question is, how do you write a personal blog, include personal information, and keep your and your friends’ and family’s privacy at the same time?  Glen e-mailed me the following in hope that I could help:

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Et cetera, contest winner

Well it is another day and another forgotten memory, the same thoughts I have every morning for as long as I can remember. I realized after the many years I spent trying to fit in, trying to be everything to everyone; I can never remember the fine details. Only remembering that things never turn out quite the way I thought they should. I get frustrated when I attempt to conjure these lost memories as I look at the crinkles on my forehead making me look old. My trial and error moments equal forgotten memories.

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Stream of Consciousness Writing

There are varying theories when it comes to stream of consciousness writing as far as what constitutes stream of consciousness, what works, what doesn’t.   As I have recently witnessed in a writers group I administer, this topic could cause quite a stir and a heated debate.  In fact one could say that this topic is significantly close to politics, if you will.  Simply imagine a room full of leftist, right wingers, and liberals; each with their own opinions, arguments, and firm beliefs.  

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Writing Help: Dialogue

I used to be terrified of dialogue. I’d write it, sure, but I can honestly say that I more often than not scrapped it. dialogue was the thing that stopped me from finishing any stories. Partly because the dialogue process just stopped the flow.

Another reason was because, like most

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A Drug Induced Dream "The Apostrophe"

Strange lady doctor. Did not look like one. (Doctor I mean, she didn't look like one.) We were in her apartment maybe? Darkish hair. Not too long. Contemporary casual dress. Hair pulled back sort of, sometimes. Lived alone. Glasses? House not too clean, not too not. Had notebook or something she was holding and a pen or a pencil. I was reading before she came into the room and I saw an apostrophe on the page move, like a mite, or apostrophe looking bug, go right off the page.

This is what I’m remembering. But it’s happening too. The apostrophe was on the word “it’s”, second line from the bottom. It just...

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Letting Loose Your Dreams in Story Form

The best excersize for writers is to simply write.  This holds true when writing our dreams.  Write as if it’s not a dream, but as though your dream was something that really happened. 

Easier said than done, yes, I know this; we have the tendancy as I mentioned in the second article in this dream series Dreams Make the Best Stories?, we are too caught up in thinking of our dreams as being just that—dreams.  There is an unequivical match, however, between picking out objects and moments in dreams for the sake of analysis and retelling our dreams, drawing out the details that make our dreams the awesome stories that they are. 

If we can separate ourselves from this traditional way of thinking, and instead…

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The initial recording of your dreams, and why you sometimes cannot.

Part 3 Dream Series for Writers

So here it is, your dream, in your mind, you’ve woken up by the alarm.  It (the dream) is slipping away.  There is no time to think about it, to hold onto it.  In fact you may not even remember that you have dreamed as the alarm has blown all chance of recollection.  Sad indeed.  Though nothing lost, because what you don’t know you had you’ll never miss or think to look for.

​The fact is, however, that no matter what you may think, you do dream every night.  There are many stages of dreams as well… the getting to sleep dreams (sometimes noted by the feeling of falling, or your body jumping, both of these actions waking you up a bit); the R.E.M. dreams, the longest dreams, though not necessarily the most detailed dreams, these are the dreams in which you can fly…

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