C.J. Moseley's Blog, page 177

Now that is a cool Starwars gif set.

Now that is a cool Starwars gif set.

Awesome…

Awesome Pumpkins

thehynatakespicturess:

alligatorassassinator:

triponwords:

If you’ve never seen Villafane Studio's Pumpkin carvings before, here you go. 

YOU PUT SO MUCH TIME AND ENERGY INTO SOMETHING THAT WILL BE DESTROYED IN LIKE A FEW WEEKS.

But it was fun.

riskydiamonds:foervraengd:The thing with a “main character”,…

Adult eye-level


Childs eye-level

riskydiamonds:

foervraengd:

The thing with a “main character”, is that the reader see the story/world from that characters point of view - we can often read the characters thoughts and feelings more than other characters in the story. You can also use the perspective to increase this “effect”.

You can use the eye-level to display the world seen from the main character. Look at the two pictures above, the characters have the same size on both pictures - the only difference I’ve made is to switch eye-level. And by just doing this, we switch between the adult and the kids point of view - even though they both look at the same thing.

So, when you are doing a perspective, FIRST decide the eye-level and after that start placing out all those annoying guidelines.

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Wow, that’s a really useful tip

Auto Corset!phonesandgadgets:Sexy…

Auto Corset!
phonesandgadgets:

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What the Kindle Fire is going on?

I just had the largest surprise I've had since I started writing.
You may remember that I was moaning how my phone and google drive were no longer the best of friends that they had been during the days when I wrote the Paradox War. You know this post...

I wrote that you could help me out by buying my books, some of my merchandise or donating (I'm not proud and have got kids to feed). In the wild hope of being able to earn enough cash to buy a tablet or something.

Someone, who I'm going to keep anonymous for their own sake, but who did me the mighty honour of reading the first draft of the first few chapters of the Paradox War years ago and said, "That is good," and generally encouraged me along this path, read that post and blooming sent me a 7" Kindle Fire HD.

It just turned up with a little slip saying,
"Couldn't stretch to an iPad mini. Hope it does everything you need. Now- I believe someone has writing to do? Well?"

So, here I am writing on the Kindle and feeling like I have the best friends (and fans) in the world. Now back to working on 'Ironmaster' as soon as I've configured this tablet. I may have a little cameo in store for someone. :)

[caption id="attachment_8392" align="alignright" width="225"] This is said tablet editing this post...[/caption]

Thanks to everyone who did go buy one of my books or tee-shirts, or who went and reviewed one of my books, or just tweeted a link, but special thanks to the person who blew a wodge of cash making my day/week/ ... I would say month, but I had my twelve year wedding anniversary early this month'... / and year!

WriteWorld: 100 Mostly Small But Expressive Interjections

WriteWorld: 100 Mostly Small But Expressive Interjections :

writeworld:

by Mark Nichol

They often seem disreputable, like sullen idlers loitering in a public thoroughfare, but they actually do a lot of hard work and are usually persnickety about the tasks to which they are put. They are interjections — one class of them, anyway: those lacking etymological origins…

Less, but not at all

Less, but not at all

Full-time Dad, Half-term break

Well it's half-term again, and that means I'm entertaining the troops, cooking meals, refereeing arguments, answering daft questions about the nature of the universe and tickling — a lot.
This means I'm not writing Ironmaster this week, nor am I finding time to work on the T13 character generator (and haven't started on any other play aids), and while I've had two short (and in one case I mean really short) story ideas, I haven't managed to get either up in the cloud yet.
I have found some time for a little tinkering with some posts and some editing, but I haven't the energy at the end of their day to face pulling out the laptop and doing some work.
Of course, this means that I'm suffering from some insomnia with so many ideas racing around my head, for example it was after 4:23 when I finally got to sleep this morning, so I doubt I'll get any writing done today either. If I can catch up on sleep a bit tonight and my two don't hijack my phone for games, then I might get a little writing done tomorrow.

Well at least that's what I'm hoping. Writing with google drive and iOS6 is not as easy as it was back when I wrote the Paradox War 1st draft with google docs and a factory fresh iPhone 3GS, which as a web developer I find frustrating and annoying. This version of iOS is slower than any previous versions and on an old phone you really notice it.

My points being though:
It's half-termI'm knackeredI'm not getting a lot doneI need a new phone - or a Kindle tablet or iPad mini or somethingI don't make enough in book sales to buy something like that

So help an author out this half-term and pop over to Amazon and buy the whole Paradox War Trilogy for Kindle for less than £7 or head to Lulu and buy An0ma1y in paperback (for a little less than £7). Or if you've already brought them, write a review on Amazon, GoodReads or on Lulu (or just tweet a link or something) and tell someone else how good you thought they were, or you could click and buy some cool merchandising from zazzle or donate a few pennies at the bottom of the sidebar.

“Check Snopes before sharing.”

“Check Snopes before sharing.”

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Ancient Internet Wisdom (via geekgirlsmash)

Always…always check… Unless its funny anyway

Great plan for Halloween, only I have no Garden…Need to…

Great plan for Halloween, only I have no Garden…

Need to crash a UFO into the roof!