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(...) Very well. (...) Okay, I'm working on that and a small index. (...) Hmm...you've got a point there. Perhaps I was trying to convey that he was rather evasive (?) Evasive to reveal his opinion? (...) Hmm...okay, the clouds were almost shaped (...) (22 years ago, 23-Dec-02, to lugnet.publish)
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(...) True, but we are talking about storycraft, not castle construction. On reflection, publish is the right place I think. (and not o-t.geek either) (...) Yes I have. I have not read all of it but I think much of what others said applies. I found (...) (22 years ago, 23-Dec-02, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.general, lugnet.publish)
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(...) The desired focus by far would probably be event driven. (with a small amount of character thrown in as well.) (...) Okay, I haven't really gone into explanation of those, (technology) although there would be some minor inclusions when it (...) (22 years ago, 23-Dec-02, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.general, lugnet.publish)
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(...) Ursula Le Guin has identified the "multiple foci" perspective as the hardest to execute effectively. I'm not sure I agree 100%, but it's definitely tricky to write character sufficiently distinct from one another to allow the reader to believe (...) (22 years ago, 23-Dec-02, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.general, lugnet.publish)
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(...) What is the desired focus? That something is set in a particular time period does not in and of itself make it milleau... if the characters are what drive the story, it's still character. It's not a forcing per se I don't feel, but a way to (...) (22 years ago, 23-Dec-02, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.general, lugnet.publish)
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And now everything is down again. :( -JHK (...) (22 years ago, 23-Dec-02, to lugnet.publish)
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(...) Well, I've got quite a nice list of books to peruse for christmas vacation. (not a bad collection, as that :) However, what if you were trying to fuse story types? For example, let's say you're writing the book in a historic stance, yet it's (...) (22 years ago, 23-Dec-02, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.general, lugnet.publish)
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In lugnet.castle, Leonard Hoffman writes: Great post! (snipped it, but it's worth rereading...) I know some people don't like Orson Scott Card, and some do. But this book of his _How to Write Science Fiction & Fantasy_ is chock full of good advice. (...) (22 years ago, 23-Dec-02, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.general, lugnet.publish)
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I got an email from Ozbricks saying that somebody had maxed out the bandwith on their server, and that they would impose a 10 Gigabyte limit on bandwith, which could be raised in case of a popular site, but of which the only purpose was to prevent a (...) (22 years ago, 22-Dec-02, to lugnet.publish)
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John, It shut down my Visual Helper site, too. (2 URLs) address used to be a redirect to the .com site. But it's blocked with the same message. The websites linked to on the front hosting page of ozbricks.com are still working, but they have a .com (...) (22 years ago, 21-Dec-02, to lugnet.publish)
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Everything at www.ozbricks.net is down, including my website. www.ozbricks.net/kru...h/home.htm However, everything at www.ozbricks.com is fine. Maybe the .net's server is down? Does anybody know what's happening? -JHK (22 years ago, 21-Dec-02, to lugnet.publish)
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I don't know about a video camera, but for a still camera you should look for: Resolution (megapixels)- you can crop small stuff out of large pictures that you couldn't do otherwise with smaller sizes, and get more detail Zoom: Might not be (...) (22 years ago, 21-Dec-02, to lugnet.publish)
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(...) Opps sorry about that. Those links have been fixed. One had a type (no one left to speak) and the other was linking somehere else. =) Here is a quicker link to them: (URL) this way you miss the rest of the website. =( (...) There are 6 in the (...) (22 years ago, 20-Dec-02, to lugnet.starwars, lugnet.general, lugnet.publish)
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Hello I havn't posted here befor but I wanted to know what type of things I should look for on a camera (I'm looking for both still and video info; not necessarily together.) Also I would like to also know what type of editing software you would (...) (22 years ago, 20-Dec-02, to lugnet.publish)
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(...) Yes, Brickshelf is crusin'. Read Kevin's reponse here: (URL) (22 years ago, 19-Dec-02, to lugnet.general, lugnet.publish)
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(...) Is it just me, or has Brickshelf been running very smoothly today? Albeit I'm on a T1 line, but over the past few weeks, that sort of thing hasn't been any better than a 24.4 modem when cruising the shelf. Anyone else getting these nice (...) (22 years ago, 19-Dec-02, to lugnet.general, lugnet.publish)
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(...) You bet ;-) No, it's really easy. Like I said, I made a template page and just reuse it. It's easy for me to do this, as it's just a bunch of code. Once you learn to read it, you "see" the website before it's published (or just viewed in your (...) (22 years ago, 18-Dec-02, to lugnet.publish)
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(...) What..... actually type filenames in? by hand!!! You have no idea how lazy I am :-). Actually many times the manual method would have been a lot quicker. I've spent hours in the past persisting with the "simplified" method where the software (...) (22 years ago, 18-Dec-02, to lugnet.publish)
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(...) Notepad and FTP ;-) You can't go wrong with that! I've created a template webpage for my site, and I use a FTP address with IE to upload my files. I find the hardest thing about making a website is creating and editing the images. I use (...) (22 years ago, 18-Dec-02, to lugnet.technic, lugnet.general, lugnet.publish)
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(...) Doesn't Pair drop the busiest day? I don't think it would be very ethical or practical, but we could have brickshelf rotate each day between each of our accounts and not have to worry about it again. :) Ben Roller (22 years ago, 18-Dec-02, to lugnet.general, lugnet.publish)
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