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The first part of the Primal Wars Prequal was good.

Hard to tell...

Rumpelstiltskin from Once Upon a Time is a very good bad guy.

Asphalt does have a certain interesting aroma to it.

At 5/20/14 03:19 PM, Vnzi wrote: Rain

I dig the smell of rain, especially when its morning or midday.

Congrats to this year's Pico Day Winners!

@Lagerkapo's thought isn't a bad idea.

Perhaps bringing some of NG's artists and have them paint the walls. NG office walls done by NG artists.

congrats to the monthly winners!

Happy Birthday Tom!

At 4/28/14 05:29 PM, WaffleVoyager wrote: Still waiting on that official 64 bit Windows version.

At 4/28/14 06:27 PM, Tony-DarkGrave wrote: still waiting for a 64 bit version.

There is a 64 bit version of FF called WaterFox-http://www.waterfoxproject.org/

Some of these submissions are really cool.

I knew dragon would likely be taken, so I chose two colors and tacked them on.

At 4/17/14 11:40 PM, DjGubkafish wrote: Ground beneath Yellowstone park has been rising at the high speed of 3 inches per year (recently and faster than anywhere else). I am just saying that just because we haven't seen global catastrophe it doesn't mean that it can't happen soon .

Think of all people who think that massive earthquake won't happen soon and than 50.000 dead next day .

Of course, the Yellowstone hotspot is gonna do what it darn well pleases. I'm gonna help this thread out a mite- here is the USGS (United States Geological Survey) site that give the public general access to the information coming out of the researchers monitor of the Yellowstone volcanic system, the Yellowstone Volcano Observatory- YVO Site. And, for the record, much of the Yellowstone Caldera has been subsiding (sinking), not rising.

At 4/17/14 11:18 PM, DjGubkafish wrote:

At 4/17/14 09:11 PM, abbuw wrote: You people are absolutely silly. Yellowstone won't erupt for thousands of years.

actually most say its like 5-20 years . I hear some rumors that there are 3 million plastic coffins already prepared for public .

its gona be like real 2012 movie XD

I doubt Yellowstone will erupt anytime in the near future- but it will erupt again at some point.

congrats to the monthly winners.

I've got a few pointers:
1. Do what you can to write daily- even if its just for five minutes and on a piece of scratch paper.
2. Always try to keep a writing notebook/diary accessible, especially at night or when going to bed, because you never know when something might spark an idea.
3. Don't be afraid to write down even the most wacky or strange ideas- they can morph into something else.
4. This ties into #3- even if you're brainstorming for something (A book, short story, poem, song, etc.) or working on content for such works, try and keep things within a context for the work(s), but still allow for different ideas, which could help improve the work you're working on.
5. Look for inspiration from everywhere- things going on around you, material you read, hear, etc- something might give you a great idea, or help break writer's block.
6. This is important, especially if you get to writing on your computer frequently- backup your data! I've had a few times where I've written something, then done accidental deletion through whatever it was that caused the deletion. There are a number of backup schemes, but I follow the grandfather-father-son system- an example would be quarterly, monthly, weekly, but it can be whatever you want it to be. Here's the Wikipedia article on backup schemes. I'd also keep content on a spare, external hard drive and on CDs/DVDs, with one of the discs stored away from home (like in a safety deposit box at your local bank, if they do that) in the off-ball chance you manage to lose everything else.

A few things I'd say are:
1. Look for deficiencies- sections running too long or too short, excessive repetition of words (such as "like"), and try to make adjustments to those areas so the work will flow more smoothly.
2. Sometimes, only a little dialogue is good; other times its better to have more dialogue.
3. For a short story, try to keep it simple in detail and description, but give enough for the reader to use their imagination.

Let's try that again.

Title: Like a Mighty Army
Series: Safehold
Author: David Weber
Genre: Science Fiction, Fantasy
ISBN: 978-0-7653-2156-5
Publication Date: February, 2014

For centuries, the world of Safehold, last redoubt of the human race, lay under the unchallenged rule of the Church of God Awaiting. The Church permitted nothing new—no new inventions, no new understandings of the world. What no one knew was that the Church was an elaborate fraud—a high-tech system established by a rebel faction of Safehold’s founders, meant to keep humanity hidden from the powerful alien race that had destroyed old Earth. Then awoke Merlin Athrawes, cybernetic avatar of a warrior a thousand years dead, felled in the war in which Earth was lost. Monk, warrior, counselor to princes and kings, Merlin has one purpose: to restart the history of the too-long-hidden human race. And now the fight is thoroughly underway. The island empire of Charis has declared its independence from the Church, and with Merlin’s help has vaulted forward into a new age of steam-powered efficiency. Fending off the wounded Church, Charis has drawn more and more of the countries of Safehold to the cause of independence and self-determination. But at a heavy cost in bloodshed and loss- a cost felt by nobody more keenly that Merlin Athrawes. The wounded Church is regrouping. Its armies and resources are vast. The fight for humanity’s future isn’t over, and won’t be over soon…

In this, the newest Safehold novel, Weber has truly reveal the sort of fanaticism that a religious war produces, in the fighters of the Church of God Awaiting. Though seen in prior novels, the COGA's Inquisition really shows that it wants to purify Safehold of Charis' defiance, this office driven by Vicar Zhasphar Clyntahn's own paranoia, hate, ambition, and desire for power, not to mention his own views of how the Church should be (a mirror of himself). One of the most interesting- but fearful, at the same time- moments within the novel is when the reader gets to see the moments of Clyntahn's rage, seen though the eyes of Wyllym Rayno, Clyntahn's right-hand man within the Order of Schueler. While he does tear rooms apart- destroy furniture, tear apart centuries-old books, breaks valuable busts and sculptures- Clyntahn is acting like a child who doesn't get his way when Charis introduces something new or something the COGA has done to defeat the Charisian 'heretics' fails when it should have succeeded. Its when he has recovered from his rage that we find out how dangerous Clyntahn can be, because when he decides that something has to be done, he won't be happy until its done.

One avenue for Clyntahn's rage, hate and paranoia are the suicide operatives he and Rayno call 'Rakurai', called so from Safeholdian history when the 'Archangel Langhorne' attacked the fallen 'Archangel Pei Shan-wei' with an orbital bombardment system for defying God's law. One of these operatives strikes the wedding of Hektor Aplyn-Arhmark and Corisande Princess Irys Daykyn, in the Corisande capital Manchyr. Their goal is to destroy a target whilst inflicting the most possible civilian casualties at the same time; in prior novels, these terrorists have been used to great effect, even with only a few being caught before they strike. However, both Hektor and Irys survive the attack.

Of course, Merlin Athrawes proves to be a most flexable character in the fact that he's being forced to adopt more and more personas to keep up the need to keep his conspiracy of getting humans off Safehold. His virus strategy to force change is working, but he's becoming overstretched- so much so he manages to get an agent like himself in place to protect Hektor and Irys, as well as have another agent to help him in his clandestine operations against Langhorne and Bedard's church.

Because there's some need content on site.

At 1/20/14 07:32 PM, Viper50 wrote: You could always ya know....NOT marry someone from your church and find someone else.

This^ is a good idea- keep an open mind and look for what you want.

Have a wonder Birthday, Luis!

NG is one of the few sites I use for on-line connecting.

At 1/10/14 05:25 AM, Cyberdevil wrote: I hear some rich dude's building a Titanic 2, with upgraded engines, more lifeboats etc, but otherwise a complete replica.

I've seen a few things on the "new" Titanic in terms of differences- the lifeboats to be used in an emergency are going to be closer to the waterline, the ship's draft (the distance between the ship's keel and the waterline) is shallower, removal of the steam boilers and boiler rooms for different use and there is a thruster in the bow, amongst a few other improvements.

Congrats to the December 2013 winners!

At 1/1/14 01:14 PM, EKublai wrote: Man, I haven't been around awhile. Glad to see the precious heart of the forum is still beating. I like to use my free time on winter break (which, being out of school, shouldn't really exist) to read the forum more closely. I myself am currently applying to Northwestern's MFA for screenwriting. Insanely nervous. Would anyone be willing to read the sample, 10-page screening I'm planning on sending them in the application? I need feedback before the 12th.

Would you want a review, critique or what? I do have a bit of interest in helping you, but I've only done only a little bit of writing experience in screen/play writing.

At 12/21/13 04:41 AM, Conal wrote: It's settled then. Today is the last day they can be collected. But instead of throwing away a perfectly good pair of jeans, I'll give them to someone or a charity. If they're not collected today.

Giving the clothing to charity sounds is definitely the best way to go after all the chaos you've been through with this other person.

This show is one that really made an impression on me when I first saw it years ago. Kinda miss it- a new incarnation of the show would be interesting.

Congrats to the monthly winners!

Congrats to the winners.

If you get yourself a graphics card, one that supports a DisplayPort or HDMI, you can hook it up to a flat screen.