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For this cast I'd thought we'd go through with our promise of last week and talk about things that have made us have a reaction ...
QUACKCAST 470 - What stirred your creative juices?
Ozoneocean at 12:00AM, March 17, 2020Breaking points
Emma_Clare at 12:00AM, March 6, 2020
A breaking point for a character is when they hit their lowest point in the story. It’s purpose is to upset the reader, either making them angry and/or devastated the main character or they’ll be angry/devastated at the main character. Every story, in every genre has ...
QUACKCAST 468 - Online communities and the friendships that are part of them
Ozoneocean at 12:00AM, March 3, 2020h LISTEN on our new player!
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The nature of online communities and making connections with people you meet in them is quite different from what happens with “social media”. The connections are ...
Expressing Theme
Banes at 12:00AM, Feb. 27, 2020
We've talked before about theme in these Newsposts.
Many people know what a theme is, but just to set it up right, theme is what a story is about, on a deeper level. It's about the journey the character is taking. It's the larger “point” of the ...
World building basics (Part 2 - Society and culture)
Emma_Clare at 12:00AM, Feb. 21, 2020
Last week, I went into the basics of building your fictional worlds. We’re continuing on with our second instalment where we’ll dive a bit deeper into the nitty gritty of world building. Without further ado…
What’s your world’s system of government?
Politics plays a large role ...
The Challenge of Obeying The Rules
Tantz_Aerine at 12:00AM, Feb. 8, 2020
Rules are meant to be bent, or broken.
Of course they are- if it's a one time thing. If it happens all the time, the stakes collapse, the story comes apart, and the experience is ruined. I'm talking about stories, of course…
As we've talked about time ...
QUACKCAST 458 - fave Christmas stuff?
Ozoneocean at 12:00AM, Dec. 24, 2019 LISTEN on our new player!
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Hey! Merry Xmas! Happy Hanukkah! Merry Kwanza! Merry Festivus! Happy Yule! Happy Saturnalia! Winter Solstice and all the rest ^_^
In this Quackcast Banes, Tantz, and I ...
QUACKCAST 456 - Smackdown on Quackjeeves
Ozoneocean at 12:00AM, Dec. 10, 2019 LISTEN on our new player!
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Smack Jeeves has been sold out from under its community to a Korean mobile content provider company NHN. The same company approached us last year but the ...
Motivation, Ideology, Action 4: Your Thoughts
Tantz_Aerine at 12:00AM, Dec. 7, 2019
Having completed the (very quick) foray into the workings of motivations, ideologies and behaviors, the time has come for a look-see of all your amazing comments, from all three articles!
I haven't done this before so I'm not entirely sure how to present them. I'll wing it ...