Summer vacation is almost over. Just a few more days before it’s back to school.
That means it’s time to pet some cats and buy some pants!
Month: August 2018
You know what’s even more fun than coming up with a haiku to caption a photo with?
Pitting a bunch of people against each other to see who can come up with the best haiku caption for a photo!
It can be hard to create a realistic, three-dimensional character. It’s all too easy to accidentally slip up and have your characters just be one-dimensional vessels for the plot.
But no one wants to read about a walking cliche or someone without fears, hopes, and dreams.
Thankfully there’s an easy way to make sure your characters don’t end up that way, by asking them some questions!
Writing a book from a non-human point of view can be tough. You need to make it both different enough to be non-human, but also human enough to be engaging for the reader.
To see one book that does an excellent job of this difficult task, let’s take at the gorilla from: The One and Only Ivan by Katherine Applegate.
They always say that your first draft should be absolute garbage. Then, once you’ve finished the story to the end, you should go back, hack it to pieces, and edit it into the shining gem of a story that was hiding underneath the whole time.
To take that idea to the extreme, we decided to try our hand at editing one of the worst-imaginable first drafts: auto-generated fanfiction.
If you’ve ever wanted a tour of a Japanese home that gets into the juicy details of all five senses, then now is your chance!
So it turns out there’s a snake monster that lives under your bed.
And guess what? He’s tired of you coming home crying about that good-for-nothing boyfriend of yours. He can’t scare you if you’re too busy bawling your eyes out!
He’s decide that it’s time… to team up with you and fix your love life.
A few days ago Abbey and I went back to Gifu City to meet a friend: Noda-san. He’s a Japanese artist who has been Facebook friends with Abbey for over two years. He loves to travel, but had never been to Gifu, so now was his chance!
Plus we got some sweet memes out of it too.
Thirty prompts enter the arena, but only one can leave with the glory.
The glory of being written.
Did you know that a polar bear’s skin is black underneath its fur? Or that bell crickets can only hear through their feet?
Neither did I, until today! And it’s all thanks to the Japanese “Unfortunate Animals” book, full of “unfortunate” facts about a whole variety of creatures.