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I’ve been a fan of Doc Searls for quite some time, peaking around the time ‘IT Conversations’ has a regular spot for him and his cohorts. I’ve always found his thinking to be challenging to the norms, yet open in respect to the way “things should be(tm)”. It was no suprise then that this article by the brain behind the keyboard resonated with me.

I, along with what I imagine to be the vast majority of users on the internet, am one of those types that, once a base level of trust is established, will happily click the ‘agree’ button to accept terms. This is especially so in the social networking space as, not only do I assume that the provider has given the thumbs up to the application provider, but my friends have too – given that it’s usually through their participation that I will (need to) accept the new functionality that application X provides. Yes, it’s naiive but it’s user behaviour and the point that Doc Searls makes about changing the way that our online relationships are provided with these social hubs is a powerful one. We tend to have 2 choices with agreements, either accept the terms of the provider, or miss out on the ability to interact with our social web. Making the agreements symetrical rather than asymetrical seems to me to be a good start – of course, the difficulty for the provider then becomes managing the specifics of the symetrical relationship as Digital Natives tend to not care as much as we Digital Immigrants might about our details.

I see this being resolved by a system where a user indicates the useage and control they are willing to exchange, this would allow for a finite number of variations and, based on that, relevant applications may then be offered. How would you structure this agreement?


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In honor of Myths and Legends Con starting on Friday (August 4th), I’m doing a Myths & Legends Week here at SPOD! Today’s Pick is kind of perfect for that, don’t you think?

Wanna play a Half-Ogre, Minotaur, or Valkyrie in Savage Worlds? Here you go.

Savage Species: Mythical Creatures is a racial supplement for the Savage Worlds roleplaying game. Inside this PDF you will find statistics for 20 playable races all themed after myths and legends of fantasy. So prepare your imagination with Savage Species: Mythic Creatures!

Races Include:

  • Centaur
  • Djinn-Born
  • Divine One
  • Faun
  • Frost Dwarf
  • Gnome
  • Half-Giant
  • Half-Ogre
  • Half-Troll
  • High Elf
  • Hobgoblin
  • Ifreet
  • Minotaur
  • Orc
  • Oread
  • Pixie-Folk
  • Sylph
  • Treefolk
  • Undine
  • Valkyrie

Sean Patrick Fannon
Writer & Game Designer: Shaintar, Star Wars, Savage Rifts, much more
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Do yourself a favor – take a look through the many, many products that link off of this page. Is there any real wonder why we’re finishing off Cut It to the Core Week with the single most popular and widespread multi-genre core rules engine in the gaming world?

(And, yes, I will argue to the mat that OGL/d20 – despite many interesting efforts to work it into various genres – is and always will be, first and foremost, the World’s Most Popular Fantasy Game engine well before it can be said to be a universal core set of rules).

Savage Worlds is played at just about every single convention in the U.S. and all over the world, and you’ll find every sort of setting and genre experience. It would be very difficult, I believe, to find a system more widely used across more styles of games.

And the core rulebooks is still only $10! Actually, as of this writing, it’s $7.49 for Christmas in July.

Savage Worlds is a Fast! Furious! and Fun! rules system for any genre of roleplaying game. Create your own setting, convert an existing one, or pick up one of our amazing worlds like Deadlands, Slipstream, or Weird War II.The rules give players plenty of depth to create their characters and keep bookkeeping to a minimum for the game master. If you’re looking for a game that’s fast and easy to set up, run, and play, Savage Worlds is for you!

Savage Worlds Deluxe is the newest edition, providing an update to the third printing of Savage Worlds Explorer’s Edition. It includes rules updates, new rules material, new art, more examples, an expanded Setting Rules section, Designer Notes to give you an insight into the development, and much more. It does not, however, invalidate prior printings of the rules, which you can continue enjoy.

Sean Patrick Fannon
Writer & Game Designer: Shaintar, Star Wars, Savage Rifts, much more
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Today, as part of Cut It to the Core Week, we celebrate one of the first, most important, and most successful efforts to create a universal core game engine across multiple settings and genre. Basic Roleplaying (BRP) was the heart of the original Runequest and Call of Cthulhu, making it hands-down one of the most influential game designs in our history. It’s still going strong, as this list of products certifies.

Welcome to Chaosium’s Basic Roleplaying system, a book that collects in one place rules and options for one of the original and most influential role playing game systems in the world.

This book comprises a roleplaying game system, a framework of rules aimed at allowing players to enact a sort of improvisational radio theater—only without microphones—and with dice determining whether the characters succeed or fail at what they attempt to do. In roleplaying games, one player takes on the role of the gamemaster (GM), while the other player(s) assume the roles of player characters (PCs) in the game. The gamemaster also acts out the roles of characters who aren’t being guided by players: these are called non-player characters (NPCs).

From its origin, Basic Roleplaying was designed to be intuitive and easy to play. Character attributes follow a 3D6 curve, and the other Basic Roleplayingmechanics are even simpler. Virtually all rolls determining success or failure of a task are determined via the roll of percentile dice. This means that there’s less fiddling with dice of different types, and the concept of a percentile chance of success is extremely easy for beginners and experienced players to grasp. There aren’t many easier ways to say a character has a 70% chance of succeeding at an activity.

The core virtues of the system are as evident today as they were when it was first introduced. Primary characteristics of Basic Roleplaying that have emerged from decades of play, across many different varieties of the system are as follows:

  • The system is remarkably friendly to newcomers. It is easy to describe the basics of the game system, and the percentile mechanics, to non-gamers.
  • Players of other game systems often find Basic Roleplaying to be much less mechanistic and less of a barrier to the actual act of roleplaying. Less time spent on game systems usually equals more time available for roleplaying and thinking “in character.”
  • Most of the information players need to know is present on their character sheets.
  • Characters tend to evolve based on practicing the skills they use the most. They do not arbitrarily gain experience in skills and qualities based on ephemeral elements such as levels or experience ranks.
  • Combat can be very quick and deadly, and often the deciding blow in a conflict is the one to land first.
  • Basic Roleplaying is remarkably modular: levels of complexity can be added or removed as needed, and the core system works equally well with considerable detail as it does with a minimal amount of rules.
  • The internal consistency of Basic Roleplaying allows for rules judgments to be made rapidly and with little searching through the rulebook for special cases.
  • This book represents a first for Basic Roleplaying—a system complete in one book, without a defined setting. Previously, Basic Roleplaying has been an integral part of standalone games, usually with rich and deep world settings. Due to differences in these settings, Basic Roleplaying has had many different incarnations. Variant and sometimes contradictory rules have emerged between versions, to better support one particular setting over another.

Chaosium’s Basic Roleplaying system reconciles these different flavors of the system and brings many variant rules together between the covers of one book, something that has never been done before. Some of these rules are provided as optional extensions, some as alternate systems, and others have been integrated into the core system. By design, this work is not a reinvention of Basic Roleplaying nor a significant evolution of the system. It is instead a collected and complete version of it, without setting, provided as a guide to players and gamemasters everywhere and compatible with most Basic Roleplaying games. It also allows the gamemaster the ability to create his or her own game world (or worlds), to adapt others from fiction, films, or even translate settings from other roleplaying games into Basic Roleplaying.

Sean Patrick Fannon
Writer & Game Designer: Shaintar, Star Wars, Savage Rifts, much more
Please check out my Patreon and get involved directly with my next projects!

The runaway smash system from Monte Cook Games is a must-Pick for Cut It to the Core Week. Not only is this the engine for the wildly popular Numenera and The Strange, but more and more folks are diving into this system for published and home-crafted settings.

What will your Cypher System campaign be?

A Cypher System campaign of Victorian horror? High fantasy? Espionage? Galaxy-spanning space opera? With the Cypher System Rulebook, running any of those is as easy as running or playing The Strange or Numenera . Take the Cypher System to the limits of your imagination with this hefty rulebook that extends the system to fantasy, science-fiction, horror, modern-day, and superhero settings—or any setting you can imagine!

The Cypher System Rulebook adapts the Cypher System—the critically acclaimed, award-winning rules set that drives Numenera and The Strange—to an unlimited range of campaigns and genres, giving you the complete rules set (along with dozens of optional and genre-specific rules) and hundreds of character options, creatures, cyphers, and other resources. It’s everything you need to play virtually any game using the Cypher System rules.

If you’re already a fan of Numenera and/or The Strange, you’ll find new descriptors, foci, types, creatures, cyphers, and artifacts you can use in your campaign the minute you crack open the book. Many of the optional genre rules will benefit your campaign as well. There are pages and pages of content you can make use of in your existing game, even if you never take the Cypher System into another genre!

The Cypher System Rulebook gives you 416 pages of character options, equipment, game rules, special coverage of key genres, creatures, NPCs, and cyphers.

  • Complete game rules
  • Genre-specific rules and advice for fantasy games, modern games, science-fiction games, horror, and superheroes
  • Systems for issues such as vehicle combat, crafting, and insight, among others
  • Four new character types, each customizable to the needs of your setting
  • Over 50 descriptors and 70 foci
  • Loads of equipment and hundreds of cyphers and artifacts
  • Nearly 70 creatures and NPCs
  • Great GM advice on adapting the Cypher System to a variety of settings, and on running a fun, engaging, fast-paced, easy-to-GM game sessions

Start a new campaign set in a fantasy land of elves and fae creatures, a science fiction setting spanning the galaxy, or a modern slasher horror game—or add scads of new options to your Numenera or The Strange campaign. The Cypher System Rulebook gives you everything you need to run the game you want to play using the critically acclaimed, award-winning, and just plain fun to play Cypher System!

Sean Patrick Fannon
Writer & Game Designer: Shaintar, Star Wars, Savage Rifts, much more
Please check out my Patreon and get involved directly with my next projects!

(Hey, just want to say this up front – it’s CHRISTMAS IN JULY time at DriveThruRPG!)

Cut It to the Core Week continues with a Pick for all the folks still yearning for a World of Darkness that makes sense to them. This is the gateway book to everything else Onyx Path has done and is doing with what was once called the nWoD. If you liked the first run at “revising it all,” you’ll want to start here.

Keep walking.

Eyes straight ahead.

Don’t look back.

In the shadows and between the cracks of our everyday lives hide the Chronicles of Darkness. Here lurk creatures of ancient myth and urban legend. Here lie the graves of angels and the bunkers of secret government programs. Here every malformed horror you’ve ever seen out of the corner of your eye has a home. And they’ve seen you.

Don’t look back!

Chronicles of Darkness RPG rulebook contains:

  • A guide to creating characters to explore a world of modern horror, from hopes and fears to psychic powers.
  • Dramatic rules for investigation, social manipulation, and bone-crunching violence.
  • Over a dozen monsters straight out of weird fiction and urban legend… plus complete rules for creating your own.
  • The God-Machine Chronicle, a massive collection of sample characters and techgnostic adventures.
  • Formerly titled nWoD Core Rulebook 2nd Edition.

Sean Patrick Fannon
Writer & Game Designer: Shaintar, Star Wars, Savage Rifts, much more
Please check out my Patreon and get involved directly with my next projects!

With the recent release of my friend Eloy Lasanta’s core system, a new Theme Week is launched – Cut It to the Core Week! We’ll take a look at some core system rulebooks that may well give you the foundation for most or all of your gaming needs.

The Pip System is the foundation engine for Third Eye’s more kid-friendly gaming, though it works great for anyone looking for light, easy rules with which to dive into the fun.

Pip System Corebook

The Pip System is designed from the ground up as a genre-bending rules system for any roleplaying game! Create your own setting, convert and existing one, or pick up one of our amazing worlds, like Mermaid AdventuresInfestation: An RPG of Bugs and Heroes, or A Kid’s Guide to Monster Hunting

  • Perfect for introducting new players and kids to roleplaying
  • Customizable character options with minimal bookkeeping
  • Easy-to-learn mechanics utilizing only six-sided dice!
  • Includes all the rules needed to play (even a few premade characters to get you started)

Sean Patrick Fannon
Writer & Game Designer: Shaintar, Star Wars, Savage Rifts, much more
Please check out my Patreon and get involved directly with my next projects!

So many amazing products! So many amazing people behind these things! You really, really need to vote to make sure the awards represent you! I can’t imagine closing out ENnie Nom-Nom Week with anything less than the Product of the Year category. I’ve got a lot of friends and folks I deeply respect behind today’s Pick – a sourcebook that cannot help but inspire anyone running any supers game. This category also includes some seriously incredible material (a company in which I am deeply honored to be counted among):

Visit a world not our own, but strangely familiar—a world of heroes and villains, of wonders and dangers, and limitless adventure! The Atlas of Earth-Prime is a trip around the world of the Freedom City and Emerald City settings for the Mutants & Masterminds RPG. Your heroes can explore the sites and perils of all seven continents, as well as fabled Atlantis, the Lost World, and the strange realms of Sub-Terra that lie at the center of the earth. Packed with locations, heroes, villains, and worldwide agencies, the Atlas of Earth-Prime is the campaign setting book Mutants & Masterminds fans have been waiting for!

Sean Patrick Fannon
Writer & Game Designer: Shaintar, Star Wars, Savage Rifts, much more
Please check out my Patreon and get involved directly with my next projects!

Yes, today’s ENnie Nom-Nom Week Pick is very near and dear to my heart, but I feel fully justified in Picking it, as I had nothing whatsoever to do with the art (other than saying “Holy crap! Most awesome thing evar!”). Today, we’re looking at the Best Art, Cover Category for the ENnies (DON’T FORGET TO VOTE!), which also includes:

The cover is the grabber, the thing that gets people to seriously look at something as it sits on the shelf. Even in this day of “digital shelves,” that cover makes all the difference as eyes scan screens, looking at what they might click on to discover more. The essence of a product has to be summed up in the cover, but a cover also inspires, making a player want to delve into the world depicted and making a GM want to present something memorable.

I am pretty sure the cover of our Savage Foes book wants to make people get right with whatever they believe in before the inevitable…

One day, your heroes may face a heavily mechanized patrol of Coalition Soldiers. The next, they’re trading lasers and mystic bolts with a horde of cybernetic-loving demons called Brodkil. Next week, a gargantuan tentacled horror from a Rift threatens every living thing in the region, and it’s up to the Tomorrow Legion to stop it…somehow.

Rifts®: Savage Foes of North America contains stats and descriptions for all of the major monsters and enemies a group of heroes might face as they serve in the Tomorrow Legion: the Coalition States, the Federation of Magic, the Black Market, the 1st Apocalyptic Cavalry, the bandits of the Pecos Empire, and much, much more. Important key figures, such as Emperor Prosek, Lord Alistair Dunscon, and Sabre Lasar are included. For those times when a Rift opens and you want randomly figure out what comes out of it, there’s an extensive Creatures from the Rifts Generator to help you.

This book requires the Savage Worlds core rulesRifts®: The Tomorrow Legion Player’s Guide, and (also ENnie-nominated) Rifts®: Game Master’s Handbook to play.

Sean Patrick Fannon
Writer & Game Designer: Shaintar, Star Wars, Savage Rifts, much more
Please check out my Patreon and get involved directly with my next projects!

Marching on through ENnie Nom-Nom Week (yes, I know, but I was delirious from exhaustion and hungry at the time, and now I just can’t stop myself), I figured I’d shine the light on a category that doesn’t always get its share of attention. The Best RPG Related Product category contains those things that folks were brave enough to take a chance on – something that isn’t, per se, directly useful for playing a game, but supports the hobby through fun information, or just goofy fun. The category also includes The ABCs of RPGs Activity Book (which could have also been attached to the Family Games category, I think).

From the dawn of feature films, fans—be they artists, gamers, visionaries, writers, or dreamers—have drawn inspiration from the big screen. Now, between the covers of Cinema & Sorcery, embark on a decades-long journey through time from the earliest days of sword and sorcery films up to the present day.

Learn the who, the what, the where, and the how of your favorite fantasy movies (and perhaps a few you may have never even heard of until now). Fifty films are covered in great detail, followed by shorter entries for every fantasy film we could find.

So turn up your Krull soundtrack, slip into your Labyrinth t-shirt, and brush up on your Princess Bride quotes, this is Cinema & Sorcery: The Comprehensive Guide to Fantasy Film!

Sean Patrick Fannon
Writer & Game Designer: Shaintar, Star Wars, Savage Rifts, much more
Please check out my Patreon and get involved directly with my next projects!

ENnie Nom-Nom Week continues with a Pick from the Best Family Game Category. You definitely don’t want to miss out on voting, as this is your chance to select who the winners of one of the most prestigious awards in the RPG hobby are. In addition to Epyllion, this category also includes:

These are the games that the ENnie Judges feel are best for folks to play with the youngest gamers in their circles, so they’re extra-important to me.

Do you want new gamers? Because this is how you get new gamers!

Dragonia faces a threat we dragons have all but forgotten. Inside each of us are seeds of Darkness waiting to take root in doubt, anger, and sorrow. You and your fellow dragons— although small now—must protect Dragonia from the growing Darkness…and learn what it means to be a true friend.  — Tass the Gigantic, Councilmember

Epyllion is a tabletop role playing game about young drakes who investigate rumors, solve problems, and discover the truth of a growing evil in Dragonia. While you play, you and your friends tell awesome stories, explore what it means to be a drake of Dragonia, and discover the value of friendship through magical, whimsical, and heartfelt adventures.

This easy-to-learn adventure game helps you tell the stories of a brave clutch of young dragons through a supportive yet simple system that promotes active listening, creativity, and cooperative play.

Sean Patrick Fannon
Writer & Game Designer: Shaintar, Star Wars, Savage Rifts, much more
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Thanks to everyone from both Maggie and me for a wonderful weekend. We enjoyed your company, songs, playing, singing, jokes and stories more than we could ever say. We're both looking forward to the next time we see you all.

Very special thanks to Jane and Geoff and Bill and all the others involved in organising the very special weekend - what I presume to be the largest gathering of 'Catters anywhere.

Of course, I realised too late that we should have had a Mudcat logo on a big sheet of paper that we could have all signed. A framed copy would have been a permanent record for the Jug. Perhaps some enterprising soul might put together some of photos into a collage and add all the Mudcatters names to it.

As usual, I was far too busy/drunk to take any photos or make any recordings so I would be grateful for any clicky connections that will allow me to reinforce the memories that are currently being held in the one wobbly old brain cell.

Thanks once again - you've made an old man very happy, and even older!


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The Sorcerer's Apprentice (2010) Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time (2010)
G-Force (2009) National Treasure: Book of Secrets (2007)

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Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides (2011)Nine (2009)
Memoirs of a Geisha (2005)Chicago (2002)

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On Stranger Tides And it's in 3D.
I'm sort of from the school that not every movie should be in 3D. I think the material has to lend itself to it, and this just made sense, because we were creating a world, 18th century pirates, London and the Caribbean, and so it just felt that to be able to immerse yourself in that great world and take this wonderful ride with Jack Sparrow and these fantastic characters made a lot of sense.

Jerry: I think part of the success of this film is the fact that we got the very talented Rob Marshall to work with us. It was a real coup for us to ask him and, to our delight, he decided to join the party. And what was great about working with Rob is that he added his own twist to the story and characters and also made it his own.

Keith Richards is back in this film again.
It was very strange initially when the main ingredients came up: the idea of mixing Keith Richards and Pepe LePew. I was a little worried about what Keith was going to think; I didn't fear Pepe LePew. But with Keith, for a good portion of the time I was spending with him, I was sponging as much as I possibly could to use for the character. And then when he found out what I'd been doing, it could have gone either way. But he was very nice about it. So to be able to bring him into the fold and do scenes with him was some of the most amazing time.

And how was working with Judi Dench?
Well, it's the second time I've been lucky enough to work with Dame Judi Dench — very briefly on Chocolat and very briefly on this. Both were wonderful. She's such a major force: funny, smart, everything. I got to dance with her on Chocolat, briefly, and I got to bite her hear on this one. What's next?

Do you think you have a responsibility to bring out the hero in Jack?
The only responsibility, really, is to deliver something that's fresh each time, or something new. The real responsibility is to entertain an audience, to try and make them laugh. Already starting out as a pirate, you're not on good footing in terms of having a positive influence. If a pirate is too good, he'd probably be thrown overboard. I think my only responsibility is to try and invent new situations, and new bits and pieces that are entertaining.

It was like being at Disneyland every
day on this set.

Sam and Astrid, how was it to step on the set of this franchise?
I was 16 when I saw the first movie. At that point I wanted to be a footballer, then I decided I wanted to be an actor. The first time I worked with Ian I played a knight, and I recall calling my mum after that and saying, "OK, I'm finished being a knight, and the next childhood dream on my list is to be a pirate!" And this was before I even knew the fourth film was happening. So now I'm shell-shocked, to say the least. Overwhelmed. I still feel so lucky.

Astrid: I saw it when I was 16 too, and I was crazy about pirates. The entire movie is so well done, and the way Johnny creates this special hero. I had never seen a hero like that in movies before. And when I got the part, it was unbelievable. It felt like a dream. And I never thought making a movie that was part of a franchise would be so much fun. For example, when I got to the set I wanted to see the pirate ship, and I was like a 5-year-old girl, running everywhere looking to see every detail of this incredible ship — a real one that they made.

Sam: Spending three weeks on that boat — I just thought, "I'm living The Goonies!" And I enjoyed every single moment. It was nice especially to share with Astrid, since both of us were in deer-in-headlights mode for the majority of it. At the same time, everyone was so encouraging that it helped the nerves go away.

Penelope: I was also a big fan of the first three movies, because of what Johnny created, this iconic character. I mean, everybody falls in love with Jack! It's really incredible what he has done with this character. And for me, it's the first time I got to do something like this. It was like being at Disneyland every day on this set, and to go to all of those amazing locations. It was great to wake up to go to work every day. I would love to do more action roles.

How about doing action scenes in the early stages of pregnancy?
Rob, Johnny, Jerry and the studio knew before we started to shoot, and the arrangements could not have been better. I will never forget it in my life: to be working and to be so protected and taken care of by all of them every single step of the way made it the most special movie I've done to date. And to see how much they cared about me being protected meant so much to me.

When you’re on location it does 90 percent of the
acting for you.

This film was shot all over the world. Which locations stick in your mind?
The beach location was historically fun because the shore we shot on for the lighthouse was where they shot From Here to Eternity, and there's something kind of thrilling knowing that Deborah Kerr and Burt Lancaster played here before you. But out on Kauai we were often on night shoots in fantastical bamboo forests or crawling through murky, strange undergrowth. The art department could feasibly create potent scenes like that in the studio environment, but when you're on location it does 90 percent of the acting for you because you feel and smell things lurking around you. There's wildlife nearby in the scene eyeballing you.

Johnny: You know, I hate it whenever you have some sort of species — any insect or animal that has not only more legs than you, but bits that stick out the front to taunt you as it's about to bite you with its ass. And they're quite big, crawly, horrible things in Hawaii. Yeah, I was in fear.

Astrid: But it was fantastic, because when we shot the Fountain of Youth on the soundstage, we knew how it really smelled. On the set all the water was chlorinated, but we could imagine the real smell. And in L.A. they recreated exactly the same beach at Universal Studios — it was incredible. We had been to the real one in Hawaii before, which was marvellous.

Penelope: It was very impressive to see that they built the whole beach there in L.A. 10 minutes from our house. Then we went to Puerto Rico and ended up here at Pinewood Studios with the Fountain of Youth on the Bond soundstage. And it really helps your imagination to have been in all of those locations. I really loved the jungle and the beach in Hawaii — being in nature all day.

From here you're taking this film to Cannes.
And I hope they hate it! Actually it's an interesting idea to make a film that everyone would hate. To go out of your way to make sure everyone will hate it. I've done that before, haven't I? We don't want to mention the film. Sorry, I'm digressing. With an arena such as Cannes, to be able to show your film on that grand scale is pretty incredible. I feel very fortunate to be invited there, and I just hope we win!

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MORE THAN ENOUGH … Aquisition or Abundance

A short episode but carries long term effects on me. Reflected on 2 Kings 4:42-44 and the phrase (a kind of promise from the Lord) saying “they shall eat and some left over” (v. 43) grabbed me!

When I think about what I have now. God’s “provision” is enough for me, but actually in many ways it’s more than enough until we as a family can extend God’s blessings to us to others. There’s this guy from Baal-shalishah who’s anonymous here this scripture – a no-name faceless character whom God uses. Can’t help but think of the little boy who offered the 5 loaves and 2 fishes to Jesus to feed the five thousand. But, that doesn’t matter because when God provices he can use anyone .. and it’s often more than enough

i think the trouble with many of us is – we feel what we have is not enough. Somehow, there’s a leakage maybe – who knows? And thus, our mode of operation in life , tends to more “acquisition” (not that acquiring is wrong in itself – it’s a natural part of life – but as a default mode. I don’t think so where I wannt to go!)

But, in Christ … we’ve even got “left overs.” The picture is “Abundance”. That totally revises our vision of how we are living. The illusion is we live out of emptiness, dryness, poverty … and we’re only “meaningful” if _______ or if ________. I’ll still grant a hint of truth in that. But that’s far from the whole truth when one has bowed their lives to Christ. Lord have mercy on our foolishness.

a quick skim on the earthy realities here …
– One look at my bank account – okay my face isn’t on Fortune 500 – but I enjoy more than one decent meal every day. In fact, afterwards it’s gonna be roast pork (siew yoke) rice.

– I’m extremely thankful for the place the LCMS allows me to stay. I admit – the termits are still working over time here and there, but it’s become our home. It’s good to have a home.

– The green Kancil has served us well through the years. I enjoy driving the TOYOTA Unser when i have a chance it is cool and stable, but both have 4 wheels and an engine that’s running.

Talk about all the basic necessities – I don’t think we lack anything. And it’s good to have “extras” here and there. I haven’t talked about relationships, surprises, new discoveries, and so on yet …

My non-Christian friend told me last week that I look “contented”. I wonder what he meant. I take it that I appear “satisfied” with life (hhmmm?!). It’s not the first time I heard this. If it’s just learning to walk through a “gratitude” & “thanksgiving” excercise above then he’s right, I feel that “I am contented” as far as my “life in Christ” is concern (in a healthy way). I’m know I’m accepted, and I’m still learning as Christ’s apprentice and growing to fulfill his call as an ambassador for His Kingdom. I’m thankful, my mind is taken off many anxieties which could have been potentially crippling as a human(they are still there … it’s just their powers over us become more limited).

But, there’s is some “discontentment” in me – if I’m honest (and I think we all do anyway – it’s a matter on what area). For me, it’s especially in terms of the mission I believe he’s entrusted me with. I feel there are a lot more people non-Christian or Christian who need “Christ” and the Kingdom message to allow a transformtion to take place in their outlook, worldview, values, ok … the whole deal! Not as “presented” with the so many added embellishments that confuse people like my friend – but getting to the core of it all first – “Mere Christianity” according to C.S. Lewis.

We need to get some “stuff” or “baggages” out of the way … so all may gain access to the “Abundance” that’s already available . Maybe it’s hidden to the eyes of some for whatever reason, but like those 3D pictures popular a while ago- just because one can’t see it doesn’t mean it’s not there! As a Christ-follower our mode of operation is out of the “Abundant Life” he’s given us. It maybe hard to see much in 5 loaves and 2 fishes … but it depends who’s hands it is given to …

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Do you still have your grandLolo(Grand father)? How was he? Have you shown him how you loved him? Have you said sorry for all those naughtiness that you’ve done while he was still young?

I am shocked when my cousin called me on my phone and told me that our great grandLolo passed away.. October 2,2016 at exactly 3:00 pm is the day that I can’t forget because he already left us. His like my father also and my hero. Sometimes I am very naughty and hardheaded but still he manages to control his temper and be good. I never experienced being beat by him or even pinched. Can you imagine it how kind is he?

I could still remember that everytime those times when I was still living in our province, everytime they eat meal together with my great grandLola he always asked me “Have you eaten?, Come here sit beside me and eat.” If I would describe my great grandLolo , his handsome , he is the most caring , loving , thoughtful, industrious and kindest Lolo ever.

When he have money, he gave money to all his grandchildren. He always went to his farm and field. He went there with barefoot, can you imagine it how hot would it be to walk with a barefoot. He doesn’t care the heat of the sun as long as all his plants and crops are healthy so that when harvest time comes he could harvest all those healthy plants and crops. If he has food even how little it would be he still manages to give us all. His not greedy.

My great grandLolo has an illness , he uses “catheter” in order for him to urinate. Every week he went to the hospital to change his “catheter” but despite of his illness he still go to his farm and field. Our house in the province is located at the top of the mountain you have to walk 1km from the highway to reach our home. The water is located at foot of the mountain so if we have to fetch water we have to go down and walk for 1km in order to reach the river.

I got pregnant at an early age, I thought he will be mad at me but instead he is happy with me for I have my own family. I never see him got mad. He always smile..

While i am writing this article, all my memories with my great grand Lolo flashes back and I can’t help myself from crying. I really, really miss you Lolo. Your smile, your voice, your hugs, your laughters and your advices. It hurts to lose someone who showed you how much they loved you. It hurts to think that one of the important person in my life is now gone. If GOD would give me one more time to talk with my great grandLolo, all I can say “I Love you very much Lo and I miss you so much Lo. I know your okay and happy now because your in the hands of our Almighty God.”.. You will always be remember Lolo and you will always stay in my heart always and forever…


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How To Quote Other Bloggers Properly

tip-of-the-dayMost often than not, we come across a powerful or significant line that we want to add to our blog post. However, getting a line from another blogger isn’t just an easy copy and paste work. You have to mind the intellectual property because if you don’t, you may get into some legal trouble.

It is very important that you quote other bloggers properly. They do own the copyright to what they’ve written – every word of it. Here’s a quick guide on how do get your head around this.

1. How do I use the quote?

So, you’ve read a line that made an impact and you want to use it in your post. How do you use the quote?

  • Beginning – A technique often used in books, you can also use this in your blog post to elicit attention and entice readers to read through your post. Quotes used at the beginning of the post should be powerful and interesting enough to grab reader attention from the get-go.
  • Backbone – You can use the quote as the backbone of your entire post. This quote may just be your inspiration for writing the whole thing.
  • Support – A common way to use quotes from other bloggers is to use it as support for your argument. If the blogger is considered an expert in the niche you’re writing about, this will be a good support to the point you are making.

2. How do I format the quote?

Why is formatting your quote properly important anyway? Simple. It’s because you want that quote to stand out from the rest of the content.

Formatting the quote can be done through the HTML tag <blockquote> manually. But there are blog editors today that can already format the quote for you just by pressing on a button.

For example, here’s a quote published through the <blockquote>tag:

“Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently.” – Henry Ford

A blockquote, depending on the blog theme you are using, varies in style. It can be formatted in a different color, size or extra quotation mark graphics. Using this format is best for long quotes, but for short ones, you might as well just include them within a sentence.

3. How do I cite my source?

Now that you’ve used a line from another blogger or author, it’s just right that you credit them for it. This is where trouble in blogging paradise starts – when a blogger fails to attribute the quote from another blogger the right way.

In simpler words, attributing is citing your source. Whom did you get the quote from? When attributing, there should always be the name of the author and the blog site it is from. Adding the link to the source is also good.

If you’re always quoting other bloggers, you have to start coming up with a standard way of attributing or citing your source. You can try this format:

– Name of author, Title of Post, Name of Blog

For example,

“Love is like drinking ice water on a scorching day.”

– Azalea Pena, What Love Is, Memoirs of the Broken Hearted

These three steps should be enough to help you quote other bloggers properly, so just stay inspired and write on until you build you blog to be a success.

If you want more, here are some additional tips:

Cutting the quote

When cutting part of a quote, replace the words you’ve opted out with an ellipsis in brackets […] For example, “Love is like drinking ice water on a scorching day […] it’s like healing the soul.”

When you do this though, make sure that you don’t change the meaning of the entire quote. And given that this is a long quote since you cut it out, it would be best to add the link to the source so that your reader can read the entire quote there.

Changing a word

If the first word in your quote is connected to the previous sentence which you are not quoting like “he” or “this,” you can replace that with another word but place it inside square brackets and then proceed with the line you are quoting.

I hope that from here on out, you won’t get into any copyright trouble with other bloggers you are quoting. Just attribute accordingly, they deserve the credit anyway. You don’t want other people using your lines and not giving you credit too, right?

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Azalea Pena is a skilled, loving blogger with years of experience. She has an interest in action movies, mixed martial arts, volleyball, nutrition, and pursuing a balanced lifestyle.
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  1. Great points about quoting bloggers! What has everyone else experienced? I feel my readers like to use a link, too. Even though many of us-writers WERE dependent on links to improve our article’s SEO — our readers may like links to validate, and qualify the source of the quote. When working with technical subjects, or management blogs, I like to:

    • Embed a quote with … (ellipsis) starting and ending the quote
    • Lead into the quote with the author’s name, and the website name
    • End quote with a URL to the full article (maybe even say see the full article)
    • Put spaces in between quotes and text, or punctuation for faster readability

    Isla McKetta makes a great point about headlines in the Moz blog:

    ” … take advantage of psychological trigger words like, “weird,” “free,” “incredible,” and “secret” to create a sense of urgency … ”

    She also makes half-a-dozen other great observations. I’d recommend reading her full article to get a handle on how to write impactful headlines. ( http://moz.com/blog/are-mind-blowing-titles-credible )

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1) Getting information
The RWA (Race Walking Association) is the governing body for racewalking in the UK. They will send you an introductory pack to get you started. They also provide an online overview of the sport and answer commonly asked questions on their website.

2) Watch a race
There are many events held in the UK, and everyone is welcome to come and watch. Racewalkers are a friendly bunch and we'll be happy to see you and have a chat. Many racewalkers got their start by seeing a race in progress. Olympic and other top level racewalks are often televised.

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Reassignment begins in early May, after the first assignments for new students are sent out, and runs through mid-July. Check the reassignment form for the exact date that reassignment will end this year.

I don’t have an assignment yet; can I apply for reassignment?

No. You must have a current, active housing assignment in order to be considered for reassignment.

Can I be reassigned with a roommate?

Yes, you can request a roommate on the reassignment form. Roommate requests must be mutual, so make sure that your listed roommate promptly submits a reassignment form requesting you as a roommate and that the building and room type preferences for both of you match exactly. If you send in a reassignment form and your roommate does not, or your preferences don’t match, you won’t be reassigned. If your reassignment request includes a roommate, we will only reassign you if we can reassign your roommate as well.

The person I want as roommate and I are already assigned to the same building and room type, but we aren’t assigned together. Should we use reassignment to be placed together as roommates?

Yes. Your housing assignment is made up of both your building and room type and any confirmed roommates. Since you are requesting a change in the latter, it is considered a reassignment.

Can I request reassignment with roommates who don’t currently have an assignment?

No. Everyone on the request must have a current, active housing assignment. If not, the entire request will be cancelled. Once your roommate secures a housing assignment, you may submit a reassignment request.

Will I lose my current assignment when I apply for reassignment?

No. You will retain your current assignment up to the point we are able to reassign you.

Will I be reassigned to just any space?

No. You will be able to list up to four building/room type preferences on your request. If we are unable to reassign you to one of those choices, we won’t reassign you at all. However, since we may reassign you to any of the preferences you list, be sure to list only those that you wish to be reassigned to.

Can I request a different room/apartment number?

No. Student room/apartment assignments are subject to change prior to check-in for a variety of reasons. Since we can’t guarantee that you will remain assigned to a particular room/apartment number, we can’t accept such reassignment requests.

I don’t think I will get along with one of the people assigned to my room; can I reassign to get a more compatible roommate?

Yes. However, USC Housing’s online matching tools are no longer available once you have been assigned and reassignment is not a roommate matching process. If you can locate your own roommate (for example, at your USC Orientation or via social networking), you can, if you both agree to be roommates, submit reassignment forms requesting each other.

Can I turn in more than one request?

No. You can only have one open request of any type. Once you have been reassigned, you can submit a second request.

What are my chances to be reassigned?

That depends on a variety of factors, such as, where you wish to be reassigned (it’s harder to get into more popular buildings), if a roommate is involved (in general, it’s more difficult to move pairs of residents) and when you submitted your request (the earlier, the better).

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THE WRITING LIFE – the dual narrative

Shock horror, I’ve just realised it’s over a month since my last post! This is probably because there hasn’t been much progress since last time. Up until a few weeks ago, book 4 was going well – now I’ve hit a wall.

This novel, like the first three, is set partly in the past, and so I have to work out a way of finding my way into that story from the present. After thinking hard enough to make my eyes bleed and my brain explode, and even after chatting with my lovely editor, I still don’t have an answer. the only reason I’m not physically tearing my hair out as we speak is that this is exactly how I felt with book three (What She Lost, due out in January) and I did eventually find a way through.

So, there’s not much to say about the situation at the moment except that I’m horribly stuck and I’m hoping I’ll become unstuck soon. I’m off on a writing retreat this weekend, so will be focusing entirely on the novel and trying not to spend the whole week gazing out of the window and chewing my pen. I’ll let you know how it goes!

In the meantime, I thought you might like to see a pieceI wrote on the art of the dual narrative just after my first novel was published. I wrote this as a guest post on  Isabel Costello’s blog, and had a great response from people who told me how helpful it was. I returned to it this week in the hope that it would help me find a way through my current impasse – it didn’t!

But who knows, it might be useful to someone reading this blog, so here it is, exactly as it appeared on Isabel’s blog in 2013:

I’ve always enjoyed reading dual narratives, possibly because I’m greedy – it’s a way of feeling like you’re reading two books at once. So I knew when I started The Things We Never Saidthat I wanted to interweave two stories, gradually revealing the link between them.

Writers choose dual narratives for various reasons. You may want to present two sides of the same story, to show the same events from two characters’ viewpoints in order to make the reader question the accuracy of each, as in Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn. Or you may want to show the same character in a different time period, eg Great Expectations. Often, we use dual narratives to highlight perennial themes or to show parallels and differences across generations or cultures. A really great example is Amy Tan’s The Joy Luck Club, which is told as four dual narratives – the viewpoints of four Chinese mothers contrasted with those of their Chinese-American daughters.

My own decision to use a dual narrative was based primarily on my desire to show how events in the past can impact on the present, but also because I wanted to introduce some variety for the reader – as well as the two different voices, I wanted to show a different time and place. Initially, I wrote the novel in three parts – Maggie’s story, then Jonathan’s story, and then a short section tying things together. What I hadn’t realised was that although this is almost certainly the best way of writing the first draft – you need to know both stories in full before you can interweave them – it wasn’t a good way of presenting the finished novel. If your reader has spent the last hundred and fifty or so pages engaging with a particular set of characters, it’s then difficult for her to move seamlessly into the company of another set of characters without it feeling like a wrench. I’ve had this reading experience myself, and even when I’ve finally managed to engage with the new section, it’s often only after a sense of needing to persevere. Although I wanted my reader to be reluctant to leave each thread, I didn’t want her to feel disappointed at having to move to the other strand, and I certainly didn’t want it to feel like hard work to continue reading my novel! So I decided that the best approach would be to interweave the two narratives from the start.

It was a daunting task, and at several points, as I sat on the floor of my study surrounded by pages of the novel, I felt it was an impossible one. But then the novelist Jane Rogers gave me some very good advice: ‘Don’t look for connections initially,’ she said. ‘Just look for clashes.’ So I did, and happily I didn’t find any, so although my first attempt weaving the stories together (a Maggie chapter then a Jonathan chapter and so on) didn’t work brilliantly, it didn’t not work, so I was able to feel more confident about trying again. That was the point at which I abandoned my original chapters and printed out scenes instead. I was then able to restructure the chapters and make them much shorter. This allowed me to make most of the connections I was beginning to notice. For example, after a chapter in 1963 ends with an emergency dash to hospital, I was able to start the next chapter with a similar emergency dash in the present day; although this one has a completely different outcome. There aren’t many such connections, but it’s extremely satisfying when it happens.

As well as similarities, you need differences, and changing the structure of your chapters in this way allows you to juxtapose lighter moments with darker ones so that your reader is able to experience a range of emotions.

It goes without saying that the voices in each narrative must be different and distinct. You can do this by making the characters speak in a completely different way, perhaps reflecting a different social or educational background, but this can be limiting, so you need other ways of showing difference. My novel has a male and a female protagonist and both narratives are third-person, so it’s immediately obvious whose story we’re hearing at any one time. I perhaps chose the easy(ish) option; but what if you have two 40-something female characters of similar background who appear in the same time period? This makes it even more important to really focus on your characters, on their emotions, on the way they think and feel, because these are the true differences between people who may appear similar on the surface. And after all, it’s the novelist’s job to get to the heart of his or her characters.

It’s worryingly easy to become confused when reading a novel that jumps from one narrative to another, so it’s really important to orientate the reader right at the start of each new chapter. Maggie O’Farrell’s first novel, After You’d Gone, jumps about all over the place in terms of who’s speaking and when; but she’s brilliant at establishing who, where and when at the beginning of each new section. I’ve re-read that book a couple of times just to observe how she does it!

The dual narrative can be tricky, but it’s definitely worth the effort. Here are my tips for making it work:
  • Write each narrative separately first.
  • Introduce both narratives quickly so that readers know they’ll be moving between the two.
  • Keep chapters short.
  • Look for clashes first, not connections.
  • Don’t be wedded to your original chapters – look at scenes and shuffle things around if necessary.
  • Make sure voices are distinctive and different – the voice should come from the heart of the character.
  • Orientate the reader quickly the start of each new section.
  • Be prepared to have several goes at getting the order right – you’ll get there in the end!

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4 thoughts on “THE WRITING LIFE – the dual narrative

  1. JO says:

    I know exactly what you mean by trusting the process – I wrote professional books (in my former life) and got used to them falling to pieces in my head and somehow coming together again. Things somehow sort themselves if we dare to stop trying too hard!

  2. Jan Baynham says:

    I loved both “The Things We Never Said” and “The Secrets We Left Behind”. I always enjoy reading dual narrative and when I began to write my first novel which involved two characters stories set in different decades, it seemed the obvious structure choice. If only I knew then, how difficult it would be! I have just completed editing it, trying to check that there are no clashes. I've done a lot of shuffling! Your list is so useful. Thank you! I'm very much looking forward to your third novel

  3. Susan Elliot Wright says:

    Thank you, Jan – so pleased to hear you enjoyed the novels! It really is incredibly difficult, isn't it? But do persevere – it's often a question of moving things around until you get there. Good luck!

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Just like your parents’ marriage, the magic has left Springfield. The beasts are tamed, the evil sorcerer defeated, and the magical school is back to just… school. It’s time to put away the wands, spell books, and potions and return to a life of magic-less monotony. But what’s next for your town? An alien immigration? The return of the masonic messiah? Or maybe a generational division of lowest common denominators!

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I stand for EXCELLENCE and seek it for you in the whole experience of the Spa, from research to booking to post treatment glow!…hence the ‘Diva’, because I expect the best and want the industry to deliver the best to you ..the customer! (And I help them do that with my consultancy services too).

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A few years back I booked a Spa day for myself and my friends in central London. It sadly disappointed in almost every regard! We were so disappointed, especially as a former therapist myself. I’m so of proud of our industry and what a positive influence we have can on people’s mental and physical health and wellbeing. So seeing a facilty with such a great central location, set in a lovely hotel, with so much potential, just wasted through poor maintenace, managment and attention to detail, was heartbreakingly frustrating.

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This is a unique “wedge” tiny cabin was designed by architect Wendell Lovett in Bellevue, Washington.

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Kyla McDonald, assistant curator Tate Modern

IMAGINE that in your hands lies an artwork worth millions of pounds. Once accidental kick and you could go down in art history. ‘It does cross my mind from time to time, ‘laughs Kyla McDonald, assistant curator at Tate Modern. ‘It can be a bit scary, but we have a huge team making sure that each painting or sculpture is transported and stored in exactly the right way.’

Since its opening in 2000, Tate Modern’s spectacular Turbine Hall exhibits and blockbuster shows have attracted 45 million visitors. Yet even in a place as popular as this, there remain overlooked spaces. Kyla curates one such space-the level 2 Gallery. Sitting right next to the Thames-side entrance, this area is often missed by visitors marching straight through to the Turbine Hall. It’s dedicated to emerging international artist, giving the public a first chance to see the work that may one day hang in the hallowed confines of its permanent collection.

‘This is space for young artist to enter into a dialogue with the established names upstairs,’ says Kyla, walking around the current exhibition – showcasing art from Morocco, Lebanon and Romania – and carefully watching how the visitors are reacting to the art. Even a small show like this takes six months to prepare.

Upstairs, on the fifth floor, is Kyla’s other favourite space – the Architecture and Power room. Its position, at the back of a room filled with Picassos and other big names, means it doesn’t get the focus from visitors that the art here deserves. Highlights include a model of the Peruvian military headquarters in Lima, topped with a printer spurting out till receipts with live Google search results for the word ‘brutalist’. This search captures the past dictatorships of South America and references to architecture itself. ‘This room and level 2 represent a shift away from the normal canon of Western art,’ says Kyla. ‘It’s about trying to integrate a more global sense into Tate Modern and allow new voices to be heard.’

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