View from Angel’s Landing, Zion National Park (Utah)
A strenuous, 8 kilometer hike will take you to this stunning view overlooking Zion Canyon atop Angel’s Landing in Zion National Park. Towering canyon cliffs stand around the valley, as the Virgin River winds itself through the canyon floor.
earthstory: View from Angel’s Landing, Zion National Park...
fullcirclevegan: Whats for breakfast? #fullcirclevegan...
Whats for breakfast? #fullcirclevegan #rawtillfuckthat #seefoodvegandiet #vegan #vegansofig #veganism #veganmen #meme #eggs #scrambledeggs #breakfast #sunnysideup #chickens #cartoons #looneytunes
“Those are chicken periods you’re eating.”
earthstory: Natural arch Puente del Inca is a natural rock...
Natural arch
Puente del Inca is a natural rock bridge formed in the Andes Mountains of Argentina. It is made of travertine, a form of calcium carbonate that precipitates from flowing water. At this site, warmed water is being released from a nearby hot spring and as it flows over the River Las Cuevas, carbonate minerals come out of solution and grow the bridge. The deposit is thick enough that large groups of people have used the natural bridge as a route over the river valley for centuries.
nubbsgalore: lightning strikes the grand canyon. photos by...
travis roe
dan ransom
rolf maeder
adam schallau
gerard baeck
doug koepsel
adam schallau
adam schallau
lightning strikes the grand canyon. photos by (click pic) travis roe, dan ransom, rold maeder, gerard baeck, david ponton, doug koepsel and adam schallau
Awesome Geocache I Found Yesterday With This Homemade DIY...
Awesome Geocache I Found Yesterday With This Homemade DIY Combination Lock! (The cache is in the inner tube, and you have to spin the PVC collars to the correct letters, like a bike lock.). #geocaching #geocache #diy #lock #combinationlock
Somewhere in New Mexico with @fruitbelly (I dunno, it looks like...
Somewhere in New Mexico with @fruitbelly (I dunno, it looks like this everywhere!) #newmexico #blueskies #clouds #rvlife #campinglife #boondocking #camping #digitalnomad #instagram
►►Serious Offer: Who Wants A Free Camper? ►► Camper Re-Build Project - Mesa, AZ Update: I am now willing to *GIVE* the RV to anyone who will pay the $80 storage fee and come get it immediately, like by Wednesday. (Posting for a friend in need. Please share.) "It is a '78 Ford Newporter, Econoline chassis. Rebuilt motor has only 1,000 miles. It is mechanically sound, just passed smog. New front tires, but needs 4 back tires (dually). Wood frame needs to be rebuilt. I've spent over $ 3K fixing it (tires are $180 each), back drum brakes rebuilt, new starter, new battery, new U joints, etc. Thinking $2K obo, to recoup some of what I spent. It's parked here in Mesa, and can show it anytime with a little notice." Message: http://ift.tt/1IXwU7I Email: Louwhodesigns@yahoo.com
►►Camper Re-Build Project - Mesa, AZ - Available Cheap Must Sell Fast (Posting for a friend in need. Please share.) "It is a '78 Ford Newporter, Econoline chassis. Rebuilt motor has only 1,000 miles. It is mechanically sound, just passed smog. New front tires, but needs 4 back tires (dually). Wood frame needs to be rebuilt. I've spent over $ 3K fixing it (tires are $180 each), back drum brakes rebuilt, new starter, new battery, new U joints, etc. Thinking $2K obo, to recoup some of what I spent. It's parked here in Mesa, and can show it anytime with a little notice." Message: http://ift.tt/1IXwU7I Email: Louwhodesigns@yahoo.com
Obama administration tells the Redskins: You want a new stadium in D.C.? How about you get a new name first?
Obama administration tells the Redskins: You want a new stadium in D.C.? How about you get a new name first?:
The Washington Post’s Jonathan O’Connell reports that the National Park Service will not allow the Washington Redskins to build a new stadium in D.C. if it insists on keeping its current name.
The Redskins currently play in FedEx Field, which is in Prince George’s County, but D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser has been lobbying to have the team return to the city itself by building a new facility where Robert F. Kennedy Memorial Stadium currently stands. That land, however, is owned by the National Park Service.
In order to convince the team to build a new stadium at that location, Bowser would need to extend the city’s lease of the 190 acres beneath RFK beyond the 22 years it currently has left. But Interior Secretary Sally Jewell has repeatedly stated that the Park Service would not agree to extend the lease unless the team ditched the “relic of the past” that is its name.
“Personally, I think we would never consider naming a team the ‘Blackskins’ or the ‘Brownskins’ or the ‘Whiteskins.’ So, personally, I find it surprising that in this day and age, the name is not different,” she told ABC News last year.
Vegans Also Need To Remember -- It's not about YOU -- It's About The ANIMALS
The issue: We’re in an era right now when we are finally starting to see celebrities converting to veganism and plant-based diets, and as a result, it’s finally becoming acceptable to even *mention* the word “Vegan” on TV. Yet quite a few loud and obnoxious “Vegans” can’t help but miss the grandness of the forest for the tiniest sprouts, focusing instead on a petty tabloid-level game of “let’s see which famous people are less perfect than me.”
This is adapted from a comment I posted to Vegan.com’s Facebook Page regarding the video at the bottom from David Duchovny’s appearance on Bill Maher.
Hurray for both of them!
I’m 100% Vegan and 100% supportive of ANY mention of animal rights and veganism in the media that can EASILY result in hundreds of millions of animals saved from torture.
In the end, it’s not about perfectionism — It’s 100% about saving the animals. If 20 million people switch to 50% vegan, how many animals does that save? You can do the math… But it’s way more than that! Because this is a MOVEMENT, and a mass conversion of millions of people even PARTIALLY to “vegetarian-ish” will change the media conversation — it will become a “trend” — and the market will respond to the trend — and it will become mainstream — and people will respond to the new industry push towards cheaper plant-based foods — and the market will respond to the new demand — and people will start becoming more open to changing their minds once their stomachs and tongues are satisfied — and guess what? ANIMALS WILL BE SAVED IN RECORD NUMBERS.
So stop the petty tabloid-like fascination with imperfect people. This is about ANIMALS. (…)
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Camping @ Vulture Peak, Wickenburg, AZ. ...
Camping @ Vulture Peak, Wickenburg, AZ. #boondocking #camping #wickenburg #arizona #cactus #butte #digitalnomad #campinglife #rvlife #wanderlust
I started micro-freelancing on Fiverr today for extra travel money.
(Posted on my main blog about it here. Starting with SEO backlinks, because it doesn’t require setting up a portfolio, but I’ll be putting up graphic design gigs this weekend.)
Elk Skeleton. Found Hiking/Geocaching @ Dogtown Lake, Williams,...
Elk Skeleton. Found Hiking/Geocaching @ Dogtown Lake, Williams, AZ - It was a geocache waypoint. (Partially Reconstructed) #elk #skeleton #skull #bones #anatomy #skulls #hiking #digitalnomad #geocaching #kaibabnationalforest #trailhiking #forest #wildlife #instagram
Install A Cigarette Lighter Socket In Your Camper For Easy Electricity
Want to know the simplest way to get usable electricity to your camper?
Install a 12V Cigarette Lighter Outlet.
It’s the same thing you use in the cab to recharge your phone. But when you install one in your camper…
You can recharge your phone and other devices without... ...
Read More at: BuildATruckCamper.com: Install A Cigarette Lighter Socket In Your Camper For Easy Electricity
23 Emotions people feel, but can’t explain
- Sonder: The realization that each passerby has a life as vivid and complex as your own.
- Opia: The ambiguous intensity of Looking someone in the eye, which can feel simultaneously invasive and vulnerable.
- Monachopsis: The subtle but persistent feeling of being out of place.
- Énouement: The bittersweetness of having arrived in the future, seeing how things turn out, but not being able to tell your past self.
- Vellichor: The strange wistfulness of used bookshops.
- Rubatosis: The unsettling awareness of your own heartbeat.
- Kenopsia: The eerie, forlorn atmosphere of a place that is usually bustling with people but is now abandoned and quiet.
- Mauerbauertraurigkeit: The inexplicable urge to push people away, even close friends who you really like.
- Jouska: A hypothetical conversation that you compulsively play out in your head.
- Chrysalism: The amniotic tranquility of being indoors during a thunderstorm.
- Vemödalen: The frustration of photographic something amazing when thousands of identical photos already exist.
- Anecdoche: A conversation in which everyone is talking, but nobody is listening
- Ellipsism: A sadness that you’ll never be able to know how history will turn out.
- Kuebiko: A state of exhaustion inspired by acts of senseless violence.
- Lachesism: The desire to be struck by disaster – to survive a plane crash, or to lose everything in a fire.
- Exulansis: The tendency to give up trying to talk about an experience because people are unable to relate to it.
- Adronitis: Frustration with how long it takes to get to know someone.
- Rückkehrunruhe: The feeling of returning home after an immersive trip only to find it fading rapidly from your awareness.
- Nodus Tollens: The realization that the plot of your life doesn’t make sense to you anymore.
- Onism: The frustration of being stuck in just one body, that inhabits only one place at a time.
- Liberosis: The desire to care less about things.
- Altschmerz: Weariness with the same old issues that you’ve always had – the same boring flaws and anxieties that you’ve been gnawing on for years.
- Occhiolism: The awareness of the smallness of your perspective.
Build A Simple Homemade Camper Kitchen
Need Ideas To Build A Homemade Camper Kitchen?
It’s really not that difficult, especially if you keep it really simple.
Lemme take you through the evolution of the kitchenette in my homemade truck camper (pictured above).
First Version – Do I Really Even Need A... ...
Read More at: BuildATruckCamper.com: Build A Simple Homemade Camper Kitchen
Homemade Slide On Truck Camper (Demountable)
Check out this very impressive DIY “demountable” slide-on camper by Guy Mercer!
Why a demountable?
“Demountables give the advantages of a caravan and a motorhome, plus some…in that you’ve got four wheel drive vehicle, so you can go anywhere. You’ve got... ...
Read More at: BuildATruckCamper.com: Homemade Slide On Truck Camper (Demountable)
Oak Creek Canyon (West Branch) From Flagstaff, AZ, looking...
Oak Creek Canyon (West Branch) From Flagstaff, AZ, looking towards the red rocks of Sedona in the distance. #flagstaff #sedona #oakcreekcanyon #camping #bluesky #canyon #hiking #view #views #campinglife #rvlife #digitalnomad #nature #wilderness #overlook #instagram #latergram
How To Secure A Slide On Truck Camper To The Truck
Trying to figure out the best way to Tie Down your Truck Camper so it stays on the truck?
The last thing you want is for your Slide On to become a “slide off”! There are basically two questions you need to think about when considering a tie-down sy... ...
Read More at: BuildATruckCamper.com: How To Secure A Slide On Truck Camper To The Truck
How To Load A Slide On Truck Camper Onto The Truck
Wondering how to load your Slide In Truck Camper onto the back of your truck?
Here are a pair of handy videos so you can see how it’s done.
Essentially all it entails is…
Jacking the camper a few inches above the level... ...
Read More at: BuildATruckCamper.com: How To Load A Slide On Truck Camper Onto The Truck
Oasis In The Desert! Hiking Above “Mountain Palms”...
Oasis In The Desert! Hiking Above “Mountain Palms” Dispersed Campground @ Anza-Borrego Desert State Park #anzaborrego #hiking #camping #freecampsites #coloradodesert
Someone’s Ancient Collection Of “Worked”...
Someone’s Ancient Collection Of “Worked” Stones - I Found all these Lithics in the same spot, within 1 sq. ft. near Walnut Canyon Pueblo Ruins in Flagstaff. Could the collector have just been a camper like me who dropped a handful here? Definitely. Could they have been someone like me from 1000 years ago? Dunno! #lithics #archaeology #sinagua #ancestralpuebloan not #anasazi #walnutcanyon #flagstaff #arizona definitely not #arrowheads or (I wish!) #clovis points lol #instagram
Make A Self-Contained Compact Cooking Kit
Want fresh ideas for simpler more economical ways to cook when you’re living off the grid? Look into the cheap and powerful homemade backpacking stoves used by inventive campers like this guy. They’re made to be easy to assemble from common items in your recycling bin for just a few bucks at most and run off alcohol or free wooden twigs you find lying around. All in all, much quicker and more efficient than setting up a whole campfire just to boil some water!
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Read More at: BuildATruckCamper.com: Make A Self-Contained Compact Cooking Kit
Setting Sun @ Walnut Canyon, Flagstaff, AZ. ...
Setting Sun @ Walnut Canyon, Flagstaff, AZ. #sunset #bluesky #treesilhouette #flagstaff #arizona #camping #hiking #campinglife #boondocking #wanderer #digitalnomad #fulltimecamping #rvlife #instagram
How To Make Char Cloth To Light Your Campfire Faster Without Matches
Never worry about starting a campfire again! You can easily prepare your own quick lighting emergency “char cloth” with just a tuna can, T-shirt, and a your barbecue grill.
Essentially the video describes making a quick and dirty DIY gasification stove — like the ones many backpacking survivalists use to cook food — but the focus of this project is simply to get at the valuable leftover charcoal without the (slight) added complexity of designing an efficient camp stove.
But if you already have a gasifying camp stove — like the SoloStove or another homemade version — you can now add versions of “char cloth” to your emergency kit. (I love the cotton balls idea!) ...
Read More at: BuildATruckCamper.com: How To Make Char Cloth To Light Your Campfire Faster Without Matches
Assuming The Wilderness Throne @ Campbell Mesa, Flagstaff, AZ -...
Assuming The Wilderness Throne @ Campbell Mesa, Flagstaff, AZ - (Fun Geocache Site, Specs Were In The Cache 😃) #geocaching #throne #stump #flagstaff #arizona #geocache #hiking #camping #campinglife #rvlife #fulltimecamping #digitalnomad #wanderer #instagram
Cliff Dwellings @ Walnut Canyon National Monument, Flagstaff,...
Cliff Dwellings @ Walnut Canyon National Monument, Flagstaff, AZ. #cliffdwellings #ancestralpuebloan #nolongercalled #anasazi #sinagua #archaeology #pueblo #ruins #arizona #flagstaff #walnutcanyon #hiking #camping #campinglife #rvlife #digitalnomad #fulltimerv #wanderer
Impressive Homemade Pop-Up Truck Camper On A Toyota Tundra
Here’s a really awesome DIY Slide On Four Wheel Camper Style Pop-Up Truck Camper RV by ‘notesfromavagabond.’ It’s built on an aluminum frame he welded together himself and includes a few innovative features, such as a fold out room and a simple roof-lift mechanism.
(Thinking about building your own truck camper? (You can build them out of wood, too!) If you haven’t yet, check out my article on How To Build Your Own DIY Truck Camper RV) ...
Read More at: BuildATruckCamper.com: Impressive Homemade Pop-Up Truck Camper On A Toyota Tundra
My Homemade DIY Truck Camper - Dry Camping @ Box Wash On Vulture...
My Homemade DIY Truck Camper - Dry Camping @ Box Wash On Vulture Peak Road, Wickenburg, AZ. April 2014 - I think my first day camping in AZ! #boondocking #camping #drycamping #wickenburg #arizona #vulturepeak #desertcamping #blueskies #butte #digitalnomad #nomad #campinglife #rvlife #rvfulltimer #campervan #freecampsites #instagram #latergram
Awesome Homemade Aluminum Truck Camper
Here’s a really awesome DIY Slide On Four Wheel Camper Style Pop-Up Truck Camper RV by ‘notesfromavagabond.’ It’s built on an aluminum frame he welded together himself and includes a few innovative features, such as a fold out room and a simple roof-lift mechanism.
(Thinking about building your own truck camper? (You can build them out of wood, too!) If you haven’t yet, check out my article on How To Build Your Own DIY Truck Camper RV) ...
Read More at: BuildATruckCamper.com: Awesome Homemade Aluminum Truck Camper
Blue Skies and Pines @ Walnut Canyon, Flagstaff, AZ. ...
Blue Skies and Pines @ Walnut Canyon, Flagstaff, AZ. #camping #flagstaff #arizona #hiking #boondocking #rvlife #campinglife #outdoors #blueskies #freecampsites #pinetrees #snags #instagram #digitalnomad #wanderer
How To Build A Truck Camper For Dirt Cheap
Wanna learn how to build your own truck camper? It’s really not hard — IF you keep it simple! I built my own simple truck camper in just three days for under $200. (You certainly could do better!) ...
Read More at: BuildATruckCamper.com: How To Build A Truck Camper For Dirt Cheap
Crazy Twisty Tree @ Walnut Canyon, Flagstaff, AZ. (Forgot to...
Crazy Twisty Tree @ Walnut Canyon, Flagstaff, AZ. (Forgot to notice what kind of tree it is!) #cool trees #tree #log #hiking #flagstaff #walnutcanyon #arizona #trees #nature #outdoors #wilderness #tree #camping #rvlife #campinglife #digitalnomad #instagram
Eggs On The Beach @ Dogtown Lake, Williams, AZ - Whose eggs, I...
Eggs On The Beach @ Dogtown Lake, Williams, AZ - Whose eggs, I never figured it out. Anyone?? #eggs #birdeggs #birding #beach #lake #dogtownlake #williamsaz #williamsarizona #arizona #camping #campinglife #rvlife #hiking #boondocking #kaibab #kaibabnationalforest #digitalnomad #wanderer #instagram #latergram
How Does A Four Wheel Camper Roof Lift Work?
I love the clever way the roof lift is done on these pop-up campers.
No hydraulics or fancy expensive mechanisms — just simple mechanical elegance. Gotta love it.
It’d be great if I could see one up close so I can figure out the cheapest easiest way to duplicate this for my own DIY camper. I also wonder how it would change things if the popup was much taller, so the bars would have to cross. Hmm… Ideas, anyone?
In contrast, you can see the standard lifter system employed in Four Wheel Campers beginning at about 1:09 in this video.
…And in this video which gives a really nice explanation of the process beginning at 1:30.
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Read More at: BuildATruckCamper.com: How Does A Four Wheel Camper Roof Lift Work?
There are many many days when I grab my pack for a hike and say,...
There are many many days when I grab my pack for a hike and say, “WHY THE F‼️ IS THIS SO HEAVY.” Today’s forgotten geological surprise: Unopened Geodes I found at a construction dig at the County Park. (Fort Tuthill in Flagstaff). #geodes #rocks #rockhound #geode #whatsinmybackpack #rockhounding #hiking #campinglife #rvlife #digitalnomad #rvfulltime #instagram #flagstaff #arizona #forttuthill
DIY Truck Camper Electricity Made Easy! (Book Excerpts)
Here’s another set of excerpts from my book “How To Build Your Own DIY Truck Camper And Get Off The Grid For Dirt Cheap”, released for sale September 4, 2014.
UPDATE: The book was released as digital download on Thursday September 4. Along with the book, I’m offeri... ...
Read More at: BuildATruckCamper.com: DIY Truck Camper Electricity Made Easy! (Book Excerpts)
Relaxing After A Hike. (Also, Beard Fairy.) ...
Relaxing After A Hike. (Also, Beard Fairy.) #selfie #camping #hiking #flagstaff #arizona #campinglife #rvlife #digitalnomad #boondocking #instagram
Blue Skies In AZ? Nothing Special, Except As An Exciting (Very...
Blue Skies In AZ? Nothing Special, Except As An Exciting (Very Brief!) Reprieve From A Week Of Gloomy Pre-Monsoon Weather! (And… Now it’s raining again. ☔️😒 ) #arizona #blueskies #itsnotraining #monsoonseason #flagstaff #camping #boondocking #rvlife #campinglife #digitalnomad #instagram
Top Of The Trail Surprise @ Borrego Springs, CA, above Pegleg...
Top Of The Trail Surprise @ Borrego Springs, CA, above Pegleg Smith Boondocking Site. #buzzlightyear #toinfinityandbeyond #trail #hiking #wanderer #backpacking #desert #coloradodesert #borregosprings #geocaching #wanderlust #camping #rvlife #campinglife #boondocking #nomad #digitalnomad #views #viewfromthetop #instagram #latergram
thewritersarchive: This is an ultimate masterlist of many...
This is an ultimate masterlist of many resources that could be helpful for writers. I apologize in advance for any not working links. Check out the ultimate writing resource masterlist here (x) and my “novel” tag here (x).
✑ PLANNING
Outlining & Organizing
- For the Architects: The Planning Process
- Rough Drafts
- How do you plan a novel?
- Plot Development: Climax, Resolution, and Your Main Character
- Plotting and Planing
- I Have An Idea for a Novel! Now What?
- Choosing the Best Outline Method
- How to Write a Novel: The Snowflake Method
- Effectively Outlining Your Plot
- Conflict and Character within Story Structure
- Outlining Your Plot
- Ideas, Plots & Using the Premise Sheets
✑ INSPIRATION
- Finding story ideas
- Choosing ideas and endings
- When a plot isn’t strong enough to make a whole story
- Writing a story that’s doomed to suck
- How to Finish What You Start: A Five-Step Plan for Writers
- Finishing Your Novel
- Finish Your Novel
- How to Finish Your Novel when You Want to Quit
- How To Push Past The Bullshit And Write That Goddamn Novel: A Very Simple No-Fuckery Writing Plan
✑ PLOT
In General
- 25 Turns, Pivots and Twists to Complicate Your Story
- The ABCs (and Ds and Es) of Plot Development
- Originality Is Overrated
- How to Create a Plot Outline in Eight Easy Steps
- Finding Plot: Idea Nets
- The Story Goal: Your Key to Creating a Solid Plot Structure
- Make your reader root for your main character
- Creating Conflict and Sustaining Suspense
- Tips for Creating a Compelling Plot
- The Thirty-six (plus one) Dramatic Situations
- Adding Subplots to a Novel
- Weaving Subplots into a Novel
- 7 Ways to Add Subplots to Your Novel
- Crafting a Successful Romance Subplot
- How to Improve your Writing: Subplots and Subtext
- Understanding the Role of Subplots
- How to Use Subtext in your Writing
- The Secret Life of Subtext
- How to Use Subtext
Beginning
- Creating a Process: Getting Your Ideas onto Paper (And into a Story)
- Why First Chapters?
- Starting with a Bang
- In the Beginning
- The Beginning of your Novel that isn’t the Beginning of your Novel
- A Beginning from the Middle
- Starting with a Bang
- First Chapters: What To Include @ The Beginning Writer
- 23 Clichés to Avoid When Beginning Your Story
- Start Writing Now
- Done Planning. What Now?
- Continuing Your Long-Format Story
- How to Start a Novel
- 100 best first lines from novels
- The First Sentence of a Book Report
- How To Write A Killer First Sentence To Open Your Book
- How to Write the First Sentence of a Book
- The Most Important Sentence: How to Write a Killer Opening
- Hook Your Reader from the First Sentence: How to Write Great Beginnings
Foreshadowing
- Foreshadowing and the Red Hering
- Narrative Elements: Foreshadowing
- Foreshadowing and Suspense
- Foreshadowing Key Details
- Writing Fiction: Foreshadowing
- The Literary Device of Foreshadowing
- All About Foreshadowing in Fiction
- Foreshadowing
- Flashbacks and Foreshadowing
- Foreshadowing — How and Why to Use It In Your Writing
Setting
- Four Ways to Bring Settings to Life
- Write a Setting for a Book
- Writing Dynamic Settings
- How To Make Your Setting a Character
- Guide for Setting
- 5 Tips for Writing Better Settings
- Building a Novel’s Setting
Ending
- A Novel Ending
- How to End Your Novel
- How to End Your Novel 2
- How to End a Novel With a Punch
- How to End a Novel
- How to Finish a Novel
- How to Write The Ending of Your Novel
- Keys to Great Endings
- 3 Things That End A Story Well
- Ending a Novel: Five Things to Avoid
- Endings that Ruin Your Novel
- Closing Time: The Ending
✑ CHARACTER
Names
- Behind the Name
- Surname Meanings and Origins
- Surname Meanings and Origins - A Free Dictionary of Surnames
- Common US Surnames & Their Meanings
- Last Name Meanings & Origins
- Name Generators
- Name Playground
Different Types of Characters
- Ways To Describe a Personality
- Character Traits Meme
- Types of Characters
- Types of Characters in Fiction
- Seven Common Character Types
- Six Types of Courageous Characters
- Creating Fictional Characters (Masterlist)
- Building Fictional Characters
- Fiction Writer’s Character Chart
- Character Building Workshop
- Tips for Characterization
- Fiction Writer’s Character Chart
- Advantages, Disadvantages and Skills
Males
- Strong Male Characters
- The History and Nature of Man Friendships
- Friendship for Guys (No Tears!)
- ‘I Love You, Man’ and the rules of male friendship
- Male Friendship
- Understanding Male Friendship
- Straight male friendship, now with more cuddling
Character Development
- P.O.V. And Background
- Writing a Character: Questionnaire
- 10 Days of Character Building
- Getting to Know Your Characters
- Character Development Exercises
✑ STYLE
Chapters
- How Many Chapters is the Right Amount of Chapters?
- The Arbitrary Nature of the Chapter
- How Long is a Chapter?
- How Long Should Novel Chapters Be?
- Chapter & Novel Lengths
- Section vs. Scene Breaks
Dialogue
- The Passion of Dialogue
- 25 Things You Should Know About Dialogue
- Dialogue Writing Tips
- Punctuation Dialogue
- How to Write Believable Dialogue
- Writing Dialogue: The Music of Speech
- Writing Scenes with Many Characters
- It’s Not What They Say …
- Top 10 Tips for Writing Dialogue
- Speaking of Dialogue
- Dialogue Tips
- Interrupted Dialogue
- Two Tips for Interrupted Dialogue
Show, Don’t Tell (Description)
- “Tell” Makes a Great Placeholder
- The Literary Merit of the Grilled Cheese Sandwich
- Bad Creative Writing Advice
- The Ultimate Guide to Writing Better Than You Normally Do
- DailyWritingTips: Show, Don’t Tell
- GrammarGirl: Show, Don’t Tell
- Writing Style: What Is It?
- Detail Enhances Your Fiction
- Using Sensory Details
- Description in Fiction
- Using Concrete Detail
- Depth Through Perception
- Showing Emotions & Feelings
Character Description
- Describing Your Characters (by inkfish7 on DeviantArt)
- Help with Character Development
- Creating Characters that Jump Off the Page
- Omitting Character Description
- Introducing Your Character(s): DON’T
- Character Crafting
- Writer’s Relief Blog: “Character Development In Stories And Novels”
- Article: How Do You Think Up Your Characters?
- 5 Character Points You May Be Ignoring
- List of colors, hair types and hairstyles
- List of words to use in a character’s description
- 200 words to describe hair
- How to describe hair
- Words used to describe the state of people’s hair
- How to describe your haircut
- Hair color sharts
- Four Ways to Reveal Backstory
- Words Used to Describe Clothes
Flashbacks
- Using Flashbacks in Writing
- Flashbacks by All Write
- Using Flashback in Fiction
- Fatal Backstory
- Flashbacks as opening gambit
- Don’t Begin at the Beginning
- Flashbacks in Books
- TVTropes: Flashback
- Objects in the Mirror Are Closer Than They Appear: Flashback Techniques in Fiction
- 3 Tips for Writing Successful Flashbacks
- The 5 Rules of Writing Effective Flashbacks
- How to Handle Flashbacks In Writing
- Flashbacks and Foreshadowing
- Reddit Forum: Is a flashback in the first chapter a good idea?
- Forum Discussing Flackbacks
P.O.V
- You, Me, and XE - Points of View
- What’s Your Point of View?
- Establishing the Right Point of View: How to Avoid “Stepping Out of Character”
- How to Start Writing in the Third Person
- The Opposite Gender P.O.V.
LANGUAGE
- How To Say Said
- 200 Words Instead of Said
- Words to Use Instead of Said
- A List of Words to Use Instead of Said
- Alternatives to “Walk”
- 60 Synonyms for “Walk”
✑ USEFUL WEBSITES/LINKS
- Grammar Monster
- Google Scholar
- GodChecker
- Tip Of My Tounge
- Speech Tags
- Pixar Story Rules
- Written? Kitten!
- TED Talks
- DarkCopy
- Family Echo
- Some Words About Word Count
- How Long Should My Novel Be?
- The Universal Mary Sue Litmus Test
- Writer’s “Cheat Sheets”
Last but not least, the most helpful tool for any writer out there is Google!
Blooming Hedgehog Cactus @ Flagstaff, AZ. ...
Blooming Hedgehog Cactus @ Flagstaff, AZ. #cactus #cacti #flowers #echinocereus #flagstaff #arizona #hiking #backpacking #camping #campinglife #rvlife #rvfulltimer #digitalnomad #nomad #wanderlust #wanderer #instagram
Cathedral Rock From Oak Creek, Sedona, AZ. ...
Cathedral Rock From Oak Creek, Sedona, AZ. #Sedona #arizona #sedona #cathedralrock #oakcreek #hiking #rvlife #rvfulltimer #fulltimecamping #digitalnomad #campinglife #instagram #latergram
Bunny In A Sleeping Bag! - Adorable Geocache Travel Bug...
Bunny In A Sleeping Bag! - Adorable Geocache Travel Bug who’s been around the world, but has been trapped in an ammo box in Flagstaff for four years! (For shame!) Hoping to return home to Michigan five years tardy, so we might find a Grand Canyon drop off next week that’s sure to catch them a ride to another adventure. #geocaching #travelbug #arizona #geocachingadventures #caching #hiking #flagstaff #geocache #geocacher #backpacking #bunny #camping #campinglife #rvlife #rvfulltimer #bunnyinasleepingbag
gibier3000: The Cycling Philosopher. by Robert Via...
The Cycling Philosopher. by Robert
Via Flickr:
Mr Lidbetter a 62-year-old English traveller, philosopher and writer rolls through Sussex in 1943. In his own words he is “a rolling stone who gathers no moss but whiskers.”
Same.
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