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How to make a script for 3D animation

I am working on a test film for creating a 3D animation movie in preparation for working on my Mars Station One film. This is a short silent movie that I will create to test out and learn animation and building items in Blender for use in Daz Studio.

This brief tutorial is about the [...]

How long should an online article be?

We live in a age where everyone wants instant gratification. If you can not provide a reason to read on in the first few paragraphs, then chances are your reader will loose interest and move on to something that is more interesting to them.

The Internet is a huge place, with uncounted writing opportunities, so [...]

Don’t Stereotype Your Characters

When you are writing a story, you want to create unique characters for it, not cookie cutter stereotyped characters.

Don’t create a dark shadowy figure that lurks in the shadows of an alley. Create a real character that watches your hero from the gloomy depths of the alleyway.

Rather than a busty blond or nondescript [...]

Creating Endearing Characters

There are, in the most basic of terms, only two kinds of fictional characters

1) memorable characters that the reader will think about long after they have put the book down and want to read more stories about

and

2) Easily forgotten characters that the reader simply can not bring themselves to care about.

None [...]

Finding the time to write

Something that plagues almost every writer is finding the time to write. It seems to be something that just kind of slips past without notice, we want to write – yes, in fact if you are anything like me you can not go through a day without writing something, but… how do you find the [...]