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Fic Titles: Alphabet P-R

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P

Pain of my life

Panic at the Laundromat

Paper cuts

Paper hearts (easy to tear)

Past mistakes

Peer-pressured

People we met in supermarkets

People will talk (no matter what)

Perfect moment to forget

Perfect little angel

Perhaps someday

Pest control

Pillow talk

Pinky promises

Playing favourites

Pocket full of sorrow

Pour me a drink (or two or more)

Power of kisses

Praying to her body

Pressed flowers and love letters

Pretty little lies

Pride and Problems

Primal Instinct

Promises made, promises kept

Pushing boundaries

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Q

Qualifications to kick ass

Qualified answers to unqualified questions

Quality content

Quantity over quality

Questionable taste

Questioning the status quo

Quarantine with the enemy

Quarrels over nothing

Quintessentially the two of us

Quiet nights together

Quite a spectacle

Quite the catch

Quick decisions

Quoting the classics

Queen of messing up

Queendom comes

Quests and how to avoid them

Quickening the appetite

Quivering (keep me warm)

Quivering with emotions

Questionnaire for a partner

Quitting unhealthy habits

♡♡♡♡♡♡♡♡♡♡♡♡♡♡♡♡

R

Rain clouds over your head

Rain on our parade

Rainy days at the sea

Raw power

Ready for whatever

Real people, real problems

Reality check

Reality comes back for you

Rebellion in her blood

Religious experience

Reputation to uphold

Rescue’s on the way

Reunions (and how to avoid them)

Reunited with my love

Rights and wrongs

Rising to the top (where we belong)

Romance is not dead (yet)

Rose-tinted glasses

Rosy dreams

Royal pain in the ass

Ruby eyes

Ruin me (please)

Ruins of us

Rules of friends-with-benefits

Ruling over her kingdom

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Blog 1: Business Story Telling

How inspiring is to watch “Bring the Learning Revolution” delivered by Sir Ken Robinson on Ted.com. One of the key elements in this article is to “revolutionize” our learning experiences by recognizing that every single human being is different. Nowadays in a web world, with all these new technologies blasting our experiences the word “different” has a real meaning, because it means that there is something out there with enough power, with abundant potential of his or her own, something unique that might enlighten our vision, our perspectives about our own conceptions.

As the author stated “Many people go to their whole life having no sense of what talents may be or if they have any to speak of”. In that respect, the problem is how life is conceived “they endure it rather than enjoying it”, says Sir Robinson.

  The speaker really caught my attention when he stated that “education dislocate many people from the natural talents, and human resources are like natural resources’.  In that sense, the author makes an interesting point at comparing human beings with natural resources that are hard to find. From his point of view, we need to return to the agricultural model instead of the industrial model that produces linearity, comfortability and batching people. In contrast, agricultural model is about harvesting what we sow, and human nature follows the same rule. Even though he recognizes that “human flourishing is not a mechanical process, it is an organic process, and you can not predict the outcome of human development”.

Moreover “all you can do like a farmer is to create the conditions on the soil, they will flourish”.

  In that sense, the author suggest that leaders in education, media and corporate must change metaphors in which an educational system, in an industrial model, produces a line of people in certain area of expertise. It is about revolution in education, it is about creating a movement where people develop their own solutions. “Once we reform education and transform it, it is about customizing to your own circumstances and personalize education to people that is actually teaching”.

  This particular speech, from Sir Ken Robinson, reminded me about Full Sail University. In every class, every single instructor has highlighted the importance of doing what we really like. Doing what we really like is about exciting our spirits, feeding our energy, feeding our passion to create a meaningful company, program, movie, song or adventure that really makes a difference in this world, because we are passionate about it.  It is about passion for a dream, it is about putting your heart, your mind, your talent to work in something that is meaningful to us. As Sir Robertson concluded “doing that is the answer to the future,” and indeed, we will create a relevant career behind us for the passion that is behind our spirit.

  For those of you who want to watch this topic, you can find it at: http://www.ted.com/talks/sir_ken_robinson_bring_on_the_revolution.html

Positivity Here

LO QUE JUAN DICE DE PEDRO, DICE MAS DE JUAN QUE DE PEDRO

Me gusta mi casa! 

Mi casa es agradable, y tiene la naturaleza de lo que se respira vivo. 

El aire que se respira, es el aire de mi casa. 

En mi casa las ideas florecen, se llenan de ese oxigeno que permite a las flores crecer, a las plantas reverdecer, a los arboles florecer.

 De repente, a la idea modernista se le aparece alguna que otra idea gótica, garigoleada, y al ambiente de Picasso se sobrepone en algún otro lugar un Pablo Rubbens, y entonces la mezcla estética en el ambiente cambia, como que no hay forma, lo corrijo, compro otro cuadro, busco la armonías en la imagen, en el espacio, en el contorno.

Despues llega Pancho, el vecino, con las tortas grasosas y la Coca Cola, en lugar de un Fetuccini Alfredo y un vino tinto francés en las manos; viene Lola con los frijoles y las papas con huevo, en lugar de las frutas y las verduras y los granos.

Adoro a Pancho, adoro a Lola, no me gusta lo que comen, pero como con ellos lo que traen, porque somos amigos, les doy un abrazo y les agradezco mas que todo su presencia, su tiempo, su dedicación, su entrega hacia mi y su decision de pasar un buen tiempo conmigo, en mi espacio y en mi tiempo.

 Amigos somos y en el camino andamos.

Despues de partir entro a mi computadora, entro a FB, y veo correr toda una voragine de imagenes que pasan como en un highway a 80 millas por hora. Y las ideas pictografías, de miles de seres pasan como cuando vas en la carretera, que miras los objetos corriendo uno detrás de otro y desvanecerse después, como para preguntarse que dijo? porque los mensajes también corren de manera vertiginosa que es difícil agarrar uno, a menos que represente las ideas del conductor, y como son conductores diferentes, cada quien agarra lo que le acomoda.

Pero sobresaturan el camino, algunos tiran basura personal abriendo las ventanas de los carros, que ya repentinamente miras el paisaje, y se empieza a poner sucio, desagradable, pestilente; pero soy respetuoso de lo que quieren arrojar, no me gusta, y me reconforta saber que cerrando la computadora, empiezo a respirar los aires que me gustan.

Los de mi casa. Con mis olores. Con mis aromas. El lugar que escogí para desarrollarme, para educarme, para vivir feliz!

Mi hogar, mi dulce hogar!

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BEFORE THE FIGHT

Oh Ms Beautiful Ms Beautiful

Oh Ms Beautiful, Ms Beautiful

How many times have you fallen into the same spot? 

Implementing strategies, you think they are right

And some others, mistakenly understood, your purpose and the right

Be brave! Be brave

Only heroes in their own characters stand the weight

And the purpose of your own inside the mess

Fight, the fight for you

For your principles

For your career

Fight, the good fight

But do not let them win the fight

Of liberating a mind, in a conflicted spot

Of a broken mind

5 Quotes on Editing That Will Always Be Relevant

During January of our “Now What?” Months, we’re here to give you some inspiration and resources as you dive into those daunting edits on your novel. While we usually share lots of advice with you from contemporary authors, sometimes it’s nice to take a look back through history and realize that editing problems have always been the same:

1. James Baldwin

“Rewriting [is] very painful. You know it’s finished when you can’t do anything more to it, though it’s never exactly the way you want it… The hardest thing in the world is simplicity. And the most fearful thing, too. You have to strip yourself of all your disguises, some of which you didn’t know you had. You want to write a sentence as clean as a bone. That is the goal.” 

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Tips for Starting and Stopping Chapters, Plus FAQs

Even if you have the most exciting, engaging ideas for your novel, you might struggle to write it because you have to deal with chapters. These are a few of the most frequently asked questions about chapters and a few tips that might help you overcome manuscript challenges.

How Many Chapters Should a Book Have?

Unfortunately, there’s no straightforward answer to this question. Genres and intended audiences influence manuscript word counts. Younger readers will need shorter chapters to keep their interest and older readers might prefer longer chapters that dive deep into conflict or theme.

Storytelling elements also change the number of chapters per book. A fast-paced novel might have more short chapters to keep up the faster narrative pace. A slower novel might linger in wordier scenes, so there could be fewer chapters with longer page counts per chapter.

You can always look at comparable novels in the same genre to guestimate how many your manuscript could include. If you’re writing a Twilight-inspired novel in the same fantasy genre and Twilight has 26 chapters in a ~110,000 word count range, you could aim for a similar number.

What’s the Purpose of Chapters?

Chapters divide longer stories into segments that help readers process new plot events. They give people breathing room to digest heavier topics or moments by pausing or putting the book down to do other things for a while.

They also give more weight to cliffhanger moments or events made to shock readers. Even if they immediately flip the page to keep reading, the momentary pause lends gravity and meaning to whatever ends the chapter before. 

Tips for First Chapters

Include Some Action

The first line of every chapter doesn’t need to be a dramatic car chase scene, but the chapter in its entirety should include some plot-moving action. It hooks readers and gets your pacing started.

Add Emotional Weight

Action can only intrigue readers so much. What’s the emotional weight compelling your protagonist to take part in, react to, or fight back against your inciting incident? Establish some emotional weight in the first chapter to motivate your protagonist, like showing how much they love their sister before getting betrayed by her in the inciting incident.

Avoid Infodumping

Readers don’t need to know everything about your world-building or protagonist in the first chapter. The infodumping only weighs down your pace. Sprinkle your descriptions and reveals throughout the first act of your book to keep readers coming back to learn more about the world.

Tips for Starting a Chapter

Introduce a Choice

Choices help stories move along at a pace that keeps readers engaged. If your protagonist is stuck in their head for most of a chapter, there’s nothing pushing your story forward. Always include at least one choice when starting a chapter, whether it’s big or small.

Keep Expanding Your Conflict

Every chapter should expand your primary conflict in some way. It might affect newly introduced characters, change your protagonist’s world, or require a sacrifice. As long as your conflict is relevant to your chapter in some way, your story will always remain true to its thematic purpose.

Remember Your Cause-and-Effect

An initial chapter sets up or introduces a conflict that gets your plot moving. If you’re unsure what to do in the following chapter, use it to address the effects of that previous chapter’s conflict. Although the conflict likely won’t get resolved that quickly, you can still write about your characters’ choices post-conflict or how the world changes in a way that affects their futures.

Tips for Ending a Chapter

Experiment With Your Endings

I used to be afraid of ending a chapter without some shocking, groundbreaking plot twist. Althought that’s a great place to put those moments, it’s not plausible to end every chapter with one. Where would your readers feel comfortable pausing for the night? When would they feel the quiet sanctity of peaceful moments where characters build trust between themselves?

Play around with your endings by refusing to be afraid to cut your manuscript into segments. If one doesn’t feel right during your read-through, you can always merge it into the next chapter and cut them differently during editing.

Use It to Shift Your Story

When your story needs to change times of day, locations, or perspectives, that’s usually a good sign that you need a page or chapter break. It’s not always necessary, but these are the types of chapter breaks that give readers breathing room.

Again, you can always re-work your chapters during editing if you find that they aren’t ending in the right places during your first few read-throughs.

Ramp Up Your Tension

Who says chapters always have to end on a cliffhanger? You can also end them when the action or tension is becoming more intense. When two characters are in the car on the way to rob a bank, they argue over whether or not to actually shoot people. One character’s eagerness and the other’s disgust raises the tension. As it escalates into them yelling in the parking lot, the chapter can end when one leaves the car and slams the door.

Ending on a moment of heightened tension is another reason readers turn pages and stay engaged. In the above case, they might not be able to put the book down until they find out if the robbery resulted in murder.

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Starting and stopping chapters can cause plenty of anxiety, but remember—you’re always in control of your manuscript. Play around with these ideas and make any necessary changes in your editing phases. You’ll figure out the best way to organize your story by chapters and develop more confidence in your long-form storytelling abilities.

Amazing, the World of Artist Management

The world of artist management is amazing. It is like being in backstage in a beautiful theatre in New York watching the play of Macbeth. What is right behind the curtain is the most wonderful sight that a student might be able to watch and enjoy. This is exactly what happened with this class in Product and Artist Management. It is that opportunity to see closely how things are done in all the aspects involved in the promotion and making of an artist.

  In the light of that, we learn in the course how to plan, because “the difference between success and failure in the promotion of an artist is planning”. Consequently the plan cannot go forward if there is no “organization” to assemble all the necessary resources to achieve that particular plan designed for the artist.

Also, we need to lead and direct people towards the goal and use all those resources at hand to achieve their success.

  As the artist's manager, our responsibility is to get the artist to the top of his or her career. In order to do that, we need to follow the plan by controlling the whole process, such as time, people, resources and finances. It is important to do a reality check and see if everything is going according to the plan. If it is not, we need to make some decisions. Do we fire some employees and look for new people that can do the job or change the plan? Would it be worth it? Would it be better to find a new person? How that is going to help us to achieve success?

  All these lessons are learned from Paul Allen in his book “Artist Management for the Music Business” that covers all of the aspects in the promotion of an artist.

  Personally, I have already applied some of these lessons in real world. We started a project with a couple of friends, and most of those lessons have been applied into this project. We are going step by step, little by little trying to give some shape to this adventure to see it through and successful. For this reason, this project in particular plus the lessons from that book, open our eyes and provide us with the knowledge to deal with these cases at hand at the present time, and indeed will be of great help in the future.