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Metaverse Muses: The Oracle
A common meme passed from writer to writer is that you can’t wait on inspiration to write. Supposedly, you must plant your butt in the chair and bang out drivel until something useful shows up on the page. I don’t see that either waiting for inspiration or pouring out pages of glop to find the good stuff is terribly efficient. One is a static method of waiting on the muse and the other active. It’s all waiting. Why can’t you just go out and hunt down the inspiration you need? Or, my preferred method, conjure inspiration from pixels. Not all of my muses look the same. I think I have…
55 Reasons to Believe
Taken by Pedro Yorcliffe at Sandbox Plaza II (BulletSim) On the night before The night before ChristmasI met some folks virtuallyFriends I knew only from their creative workThey were awesome! We may never meetBut 52 times a yearYou give me 55 reasons a week[More or less ;-)]To believeYou are awesome too Wishing you a creative 2014. ~Nara Malone The first draft of this was 69 words. But hey, even I can follow the rules once a year. Happy Holidays! This is my contribution to G-Man’s Friday 55. Drop by after 8 pm ET Thursday nights or anytime Friday to see what others wrote or to join the fun yourself. Special…
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My Baby Blue Whale: I’m in love
This is what I love about virtual worlds like Second Life and Kitely. I can’t think of an easier way to put myself in a character’s head when it comes to experiences I’ve never personally had.Now while it’s true that the virtual experience isn’t quite the same as actually standing on an ice floe getting sprayed by a baby whale I’m trying to teach to swim, it has that quality of wonder. It gets me close enough that my imagination can take me the rest of the way, and when I imagine scenes, the picture in my head doesn’t come close depicting what this animation did. Moving beyond putting an…