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Liquidation Buyer Has legitimate Questions
The Closeout Industry | July 27th 2008 by Robert Cyr
Sherri, one of our blog readers, emailed a very good question…I am going to share with everyone: Hi, I have bought two of your ebooks and have enjoyed them both. I have been reading as much as possible about this business. I ha read more
The dreaded questions
Five Rings | July 25th 2008 by cirellio
A few epochs ago, I mentioned something called the ‘questionnaire approach’ to writing a book. The conundrum was I couldn’t answer those tough questions until I was ready to write the book, and I couldn’t write the book witho read more
The 5th Ring: Seven Rays
Five Rings | July 21st 2008 by cirellio
The fifth ring is the final destination of any set of energy. Creating fire? Going to Hell? First ring. Traversing a continent? Going to Purgatory? Second ring. Crossing an ocean? Being alive? Third ring. Flying? Projecting to the Astral plane? Fourt read more
One small step forward…
Five Rings | July 7th 2008 by cirellio
…and one giant leap back. Every time it feels like I’m making progress on my novel, something happens that forces me to reevaluate major plot points. Like recently, I connected together the scenes I would need to bridge the middle of t read more
The 4th Ring: Air
Five Rings | July 7th 2008 by cirellio
Elementally speaking, the fourth ring is simply ‘the atmosphere’, which is easy enough to visualize: the troposphere, stratosphere, mesosphere, and ionosphere. It is also our state of mind, our intellect, our subconscious, our instincts, read more
The 3rd Ring: Water
Five Rings | July 1st 2008 by cirellio
The third ring is our physical reality. It is also the classical element of water; what makes up the oceans, lakes, rain, and reservoirs—the water cycle. It is what living organisms are made of. It is the soul. While it may seem destructive due read more
shmupdate…
Five Rings | June 27th 2008 by cirellio
First off, it appears I was counter-tagged by Steph. I hope this isn’t revenge for the shredding we did to each other’s writings :3… This meme isn’t particularly riveting and probably thrown together by someone who barely has read more
Unspecified Year: Justine Moritz, Frankenstein family servant
Executed Today | June 23rd 2008 by Executed Today
Around this date in the unspecified 18th-century year of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, the titular family’s servant is put to death for the murder of their youngest child, William. In the novel, smarty-pants university student Victor Fra read more
The 2nd Ring: Earth
Five Rings | June 22nd 2008 by cirellio
I’d describe the second ring as an energy drawn from within the world. It is the energy surging through the mountains and flora that surround us. It is the Anima Mundi - ’soul of the world’. Some people get this mixed up with th read more
Meme’d by the Smoky One
Five Rings | June 19th 2008 by cirellio
It seems we bloggers sometimes have a civic duty to fulfill here in the blogosphere: to go horribly off-topic in the event that we are tagged with a meme. Not that being tagged is like jury duty or anything… heheh… At any rate, this viral read more
The 1st Ring: Fire
Five Rings | June 16th 2008 by cirellio
The Fire Lizard and the Great Oak Tree The great oak tree had far outgrown its brethren by coercing the forest animals, one by one, to trust it into climbing within the safe confines of its branches. Once it had earned their trust, it would violently read more
Seeing what otherwise cannot be seen
Five Rings | June 15th 2008 by cirellio
A little bit about Mystics … After the Day of Dischord, many people, for the first time, began to ’see what otherwise could not be seen’. Supernatural sightings were far more common, and people who could manipulate energies gravitat read more
The Five Rings system -part 4-
Five Rings | June 11th 2008 by cirellio
Okay. Time’s up. Hopefully, I don’t appear to be a total loon after this post. We shall see! :) If there is enough matter, just like with a rain drop, it forms into the most energy-efficient arrangement possible. Welcome to the Five Rings read more
Intermission!
Five Rings | June 9th 2008 by cirellio
I was hoping someone would take a stab at the meaning behind the elemental order… First Fire, then Earth, then Water, then Wind, and finally, ‘Ideal‘. Where do we see this pattern in nature? Here’s a visual representation I co read more
A Blogging Post Worth Reading
It's Write Now | June 5th 2008 by Emma Nelson
Most of you already know Michelle over at Bloggrrl. This was one of the first blogs I started reading regularly, and I’ve always enjoyed Michelle’s wit, humor, and creativity. Today she made a post about blogging that wasn’t the sam read more
The Five Rings system -part 3-
Five Rings | June 4th 2008 by cirellio
The elemental order: What appealed most to me about elemental systems is how the idea is possibly as old as storytelling itself, and fortunately, the Five Rings helped my story come together to make a whole lot more sense. Analyzing the pseudoscience read more
The Five Rings system -part 2-
Five Rings | June 3rd 2008 by cirellio
The Five Rings system is an elemental system. Elemental systems: Long ago, people viewed everything as being made of some kind of blend of Earth, Fire, Air, and Water, and most gods were embodiments of emotions or elements. The four element system w read more
The Five Rings system -part 1-
Five Rings | June 2nd 2008 by cirellio
The Five Rings are at the very core of the magic system I developed for the book. But before we get into that, I want to take a moment to discuss magic in fantasy. Magic often serves double-duty in high fantasy novels: as utility for characters (ex: read more
Closer to the beginning
Five Rings | May 22nd 2008 by cirellio
Some of what I’m about to say is a reiteration of what I commented a few weeks ago at The Plot Whisperer’s site. (sorry, Martha!) In my post about the timeline, I stopped writing before I got to the part where I should have talked read more
Fantasy worldbuilding questions
Five Rings | May 20th 2008 by cirellio
While worldbuilding, I often found myself wondering, “Do I have enough information to continue writing? Too little? How much worldbuilding is too much?” It’s a pretty common worry amongst first-time novel writers. I see similar questions a read more
A fictional timeline, a fantasy world.
Five Rings | May 18th 2008 by cirellio
Research and development. More research and development. Day-dreaming about the beginning and end of your story. Brainstorming. Hearing your characters chit-chat with each other in your head (Scary, isn’t it?)… It turns out there’s read more
Too Much Time On My Hands
Electronic Ephemera | May 8th 2008
The Library of Things That Never Were read more
IBM: Hollywood sets technology future
IT Blog: gadgets and stuff | May 2nd 2008
Science fiction movies may prove to be a new source of inspiration for future IBM applications. On April 30, the technology manufacturer hosted a brainstorming session with the University of Southern California’s School of Cinematic Arts entitled read more
Unspecified Year: Faust’s Gretchen
Executed Today | May 2nd 2008 by Executed Today
In Goethe’s Faust (original German | English), the title character’s lover on this date spurns his rescue and is put to death for killing their illegitimate child. In the text, Faust and Mephistopheles celebrate Walpurgisnacht. The read more
Further Fictional Future Fun
neOnbubble | April 16th 2008 by neOnbubble
Fun not guaranteed. Yes, as promised or, more accurately, generally hinted at previously here, it's another entry in the Vintage Ads Of Fictional Futures competition. By Jove! There's A Large One Here! But wait! There's more! For a limited time on read more
Senator Hillary Clinton Says, I’m Rocky Balboa Bitch
BlackPerspective.net | April 2nd 2008 by Yobachi
Kazuo “The Uzi” Uzuki scraps MLB plans…
Ugueth Urbina is Burning | April 1st 2008 by ugueth urbina is burning
Because he is a fabrication. Topps released a card on February 6th featuring the supposed 5′11, 165 pound Japanese high school prodigy with a 104 mph fastball who planned on jumping straight from high school to the majors. A hint that “Th read more
1915: Four French Corporals, for cowardice
Executed Today | March 17th 2008 by Executed Today
On this date in 1915, four French corporals were shot at a farm in Suippes for refusing to advance out of their trenches through the carnage of a World War I no man’s land. It was not only Corporals Theophile Maupas, Louis Lefoulon, Louis Girar read more
My Life. Hollywood Style.
Immoral Matriarch: Catechizer | March 3rd 2008 by Immoral Matriarch
First, I must start off by saying that I'm in love with Mr. Lady. Oh, you don't know Mr. Lady? Well, you should. She's over at 'Whiskey in my Sippy Cup' [no, I don't believe she really gives her kids Jack Daniels] and she's another example of how all read more
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