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Today, i will be sharing a resource that feature a web library on a total guide on punctuation. punctuation is very vital to writers, as meaning of sentences can be amply altered by varying the punctuations in such sentences. A good example follows.<br />
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<em><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11pt;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">An English professor wrote the words:</span></span></em><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11pt;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">  <strong>"<u>A woman without her man is nothing</u>"</strong> <em>on the board and asked his students to punctuate it correctly.</em> </span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11pt;"><br /><br /><span style="font-size: x-small;">All of the males in the class wrote:  <strong>"<u>A woman, without her man, is nothing.</u>"</strong>   </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">All the females in the class wrote:   <span style="font-size: x-small;"><strong><span style="font-family: Verdana;">"<u>A woman: without her, man is nothing.</u>"</span></strong> </span><br /><br /><span style="color: black;"><em><strong>...Punctuation is powerful!...</strong></em></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">So, what are you waiting for? <a href="http://www.libraryonline.com/default.asp?pID=29" target="_blank">click here</a> to access this wonderful resource.</span></div>
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writer's resource entry; all punctuation guide

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29 Apr 2015

Scenerymania entry; wits from the dark

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I stood at the darker corner enjoying the tension building between us. Jide had been the one doing the talking since, all I did was listen patiently to his endless rants. Though it was true I held most of the blame, I could have just let the consignment slip through easily, especially with the mention of the dare devil Jide’s name, however I was on strict instruction. As a senior officer at the customs, I hardly get field duties as the office works on my desk were ample enough to keep my butt glued to my office’s leather chair. That fateful morning, director James had requested for my presence at that particular spot, because he had a tip that a sponsored consignment would be smuggled through and that the regular presence on that post were unreliable as they could have been adequately bribed to let the consignment slip pass.  Three days after I seized Jide’s consignment, here I am at the horrible presence of Jide, two of his fierce looking men stood beside him and a couple others watched the door and others unknown; hidden, by the car I suppose. I was jeered back to reality by the last sentence from Jide, “make it quick and silent”. <br>
I recalled the murderous look on those men, the death notice in their steps and the killing edges about them. I felt nausea form from my stomach, I didn't keep it back, it was as if, it was my fear that was coming out. As I emptied the smelly, slimy content of my gut on to the floor. I noticed the men staggered back at the smell and look of the vomit. Somehow my regurgitation had cast my wits away from the gloomy walls of my meek heart that caged it. It was my turn to utilise my enemy’s tactics against them-to launch a quick and silent counter attack on them. I reached for the iron wrench just by the window, I rammed it against the first's skull, I heard a loud creak and then a louder thud, and before the second could respond I rammed it against his jaw, in an upper cut direction. A loud moan escaped from his mouth as his lifeless body dropped into the ground.  Jide seeing an imminent danger ran outside asking the two doorway guards to strike me down. One of the men held a gun, I flinched, the whole wits I gathered found a sudden porous escape route as I stood motionless awaiting my death sentence. The man with the gun approached me, he raised his gun aimed and squeezed, I heard a body fall, I knew instantly what was wrong, my body had fell but my zealous spirit was standing, unwilling to fall with the body. However it was the second shot that spoke reality. It was too real a sound for a spirit’s feeble ears, I swivelled my head to examine my environment. I found the bodies of the third guy and Jide on the ground, there were three more shots and two other guards fell and then my hero was there too, slowly sinking to the ground, I was hardly able to thank him for saving me. He stretched his hand reaching desperately for me. He was saying some words, I neared him “Dare, Dare, tell your mum, tell her that wale was here, say…….saii……”<br>
His eyes drooped to nothingness, he was dead. <br>
A week later, as I prepared for visiting mummy back in our home, I began to wonder what story mummy will tell me regarding my dead hero.<br>
To be continued……<br>
Abd-afeez Abd-hamid<br>
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26 Apr 2015

A moment with scot

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If there was a camera, it would only show an apple.<br />
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An apple, in the hand of skinny white kid<br />
who looks too young to be in high school, that<br />
gets eaten.  The camera will show how hi<br />
teeth digging into its yellow sides, bringing the<br />
piece into his mouth. The camera will spend<br />
maybe five minutes documenting his various<br />
lunch items and how he eats them, with upbeat<br />
punk music in the background.<br />
The kid- who I will now call Scott- suddenly<br />
looks down at his leg, on which there is a<br />
vibrating phone. He smiles, then picks it up to<br />
read the message.  He finishes reading it, then<br />
frowns even though he is glad his mother will<br />
drive him home that day.<br />
Scott looks straight ahead; there is a brick wall<br />
across from the stairs he is sitting on. The<br />
bricks aren't all red, with varying shades of<br />
orange, but it is still severely plain. He stares<br />
for a while, as the sight in front of him is only a<br />
method for him to be aware of his real-life self<br />
as his thoughts wander. In his view, he sees a<br />
girl. Red hair, much brighter tan the orange<br />
bricks behind her. She looks in his direction,<br />
then smiles and waves. Scott does the same<br />
but with more enthusiasm. His waving hand<br />
hits the leg of another girl coming down the<br />
stairs. This girl says something to the redhead<br />
and steps over his empty lunch bag.<br />
Swallowing, then looking down, he uses the<br />
grey steps as an awareness point and lets his<br />
mind walk up the steps and into a more<br />
stimulating place.<br />
The bell rings, signalling the beginning of sixth<br />
period, to which he stands up and leaves.  He<br />
doesn't go to his locker, his class or even the<br />
bathroom. Scott walks out of the front of the<br />
school, heading toward an address he found on<br />
Google Maps. About a block way, he starts to<br />
sweat-not from anxiety. He wonders what<br />
would happen if a cop saw him. He gasps as<br />
his fears come into reality when a cop car<br />
drives by. The car does not stop or slow down,<br />
however. Taking a deep breath, Scott<br />
continues on.<br />
When he finally gets the the address, he sits<br />
down on some steps in front of a parking<br />
garage. He looks up at its grey sides, then<br />
down at the black asphalt beneath it. He looks<br />
at an empty parking lot, then heads toward it.<br />
When he reaches the middle, he sits down,<br />
opens his backpack, and removes a box of<br />
chalk.  He takes out a piece of red chalk,<br />
orange, and white chalk. Taking the white, he<br />
runs in a straight line across the parking lot<br />
while dragging the chalk on the asphalt.  He<br />
changes position and does this again. Then<br />
again. Then again. And after several more<br />
times, he stops to catch his breath. The<br />
camera zooms out to show that he wrote<br />
"EVERYTHING" on the asphalt. He takes the<br />
red and orange pieces-both in his hands at the<br />
same time, creating a double line whenever he<br />
wrote with them. Pressing them with all his<br />
might onto the asphalt, he makes a big curvy<br />
"S". He makes four more letters, which<br />
together read "SUCKS". He drops the chalk<br />
from his shaking hands and stares at the<br />
incomprehensible lines.<br />
After several minutes of admiring his work, he<br />
runs-sprinting-toward the parking structure.<br />
He runs to the elevator that takes him to the<br />
tenth floor. Going to the edge of the structured<br />
lot, he looks down on the chalk-covered lot.<br />
After quickly looking away, he looks back<br />
again, then charges for the stairs. He goes as<br />
fast as he possibly can down the stairs until he<br />
gets to his lot again. Scott pulls his jacket off<br />
and throws it on the ground. He steps on the<br />
jacket and rubs it all over the red and orange<br />
chalk until it is all embedded on his jacket and<br />
off the ground. Grabbing the box of chalk, he<br />
picks blue and begins writing again. This time,<br />
there are more letters.  He finishes the words<br />
and the chalk then runs up the stairs to the<br />
twelfth floor-the highest he can go. Smiling, he<br />
looks at the parking lot that is only empty of<br />
cars. It reads "EVERYTHING IS BEAUTIFUL".<br />
Scott looks down at his watch on his way back<br />
down, seeing that he has enough time for his<br />
mother to give him a ride home.</div>

A moment with scot

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22 Apr 2015

Penumbra open for story submission

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Musa Publishing is seeking submissions for a future issue of Penumbra magazine, a speculative fiction ezine. The theme for the December 2014 issue is“Arthurian Legend”–stories of magic mythology and mystery based on the fantastical folklore of Arthurian literature and influenced by legendary characters like King Arthur, Lancelot, Merlin the Wizard, and Queen Guinevere. Writers are invited to submit original, unpublished stories up to 3500 words. New writers are encouraged to submit. Payment: 5 cents per word. Penumbra magazine publishes a new digital issue monthly, developed around a specific theme. <a href="http://writingcareer.com/post/96257670271/penumbra-magazine-needs-speculative-fiction" target="_blank">Click here</a> for more details and submission requirement.<br />
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18 Apr 2015

Shits on a mission

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A day has started,<o:p></o:p></div>
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I see humans under an umbrella,<o:p></o:p></div>
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under which evil manifest.<o:p></o:p></div>
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There souls hence suffers<o:p></o:p></div>
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But blames are always churned.<o:p></o:p></div>
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A season when ill-luck prevailed.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Pretence ascending a hilltop of fame,<o:p></o:p></div>
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Lies shrouded in ample accolades,<o:p></o:p></div>
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Golden lit to public delight.<o:p></o:p></div>
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They hence torment.<o:p></o:p></div>
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These shits just don’t happen,<o:p></o:p></div>
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Shits on a mission

A day has started, With it, evil birth; The horizon has cleared with it. glaring sunshine. I see humans under an umbrella, under which evil manifest. There souls hence suffers But blames are always c…

18 Apr 2015

Your story's ideal hero

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When you write your wonderful stories, more often than not we see the advent of an hero who eventually saves the day. So who is your ideal hero, a no nonsense miscreant that was just lucky to have a roughly good heart but would notwithstanding have to break the law to save the day: Or a law abiding citizen whose heroics is less of his vicious acts and antics but more of his smart moves and wise maneuve<br />
? More often than not our judgement of the ideals of our stories' heroes depend on some factors and these include the following.<br />
The setting of the story:- Sometimes the background of our story would affect the ideals of its hero. Take for example a story that was staged at the historic reign of the roman empire. If an hero should rise in such story, your fans will not expect a saint, neither a miscreant, your hero should be a blood thirsty warlord or a god-blessed super human or some invincible demigod. However if the story was staged at the British empire era as seen in the king Authur era, a miscreant would have been our ideal hero or an overzealous knight. However how ridiculous would a wizard-of-an-hero have been in such setting? Obviously it would seem very ridiculous.<br />
The plot:- Let your hero represent your plot, don't be the person whose hero in a magical world would be a religious extremist, in as much as your hero's ride to glory would have been justified by his God's aid; you would however have earned a long list of disappointed and bored readers. Let the struggle between your hero and villain be in line. If your ideal hero is always a stainless, smooth riding, always having his way hero? You are so not doing a good job with your hero. What bore readers most is when your hero is so stereotyped that his every conquest is business as usual.<br />
Your characterization:- Sometimes the attributes you give your would be hero would have a constraint on his heroics. If you have a kid hero for instance, he is expected to be imperfect and quite amateurish, his heroics would be driven around luck and deep struggle. He should rarely have a smooth ride to conquer. Give him complex attributes but ensure those attributes are less conflicting. The commonest of such attributes are often emotional dispositions like (love, anger, hatred) and the rest physical/mental challenges like (sickness, trauma, I'll luck poverty and others). The two fields of attributes above would give your hero the ideals of a true hero your fans will love.<br />
After tactically analyzing the above points, you should know what your ideal hero should be for your story. You might have opinions contrary to mine, may be their is this other formula working for you? Please comment with your ideas.<br />
Abd-afeez Abd-hamid<br />
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17 Apr 2015

Writers resources entry; test your grammer

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You could be any form of writers in the world today, a
content writer, an article journalist, a ghost writer, a creative writer, an
investigative writer, a freelance writer, a copy writer a script writer. However,
one thing unites these set of writers together and that is their command of English
language. As a writer myself i understand that my use of English should be good
or rather outstanding- if possible- to be ever be considered a good writer. Command
of English itself can never be separated from a foundation of English known as English
grammar. So a constant work out is a must to keep our writing edges sharp and
writing-efficient all times. However after days of working out on our English
grammar, I believe it is of importance to test ourselves to be sure our learning
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Here at museguide it is of utmost importance to us that our writer
fans always get the best and hence stay on top of their game. That is the
major reason why i decided to share this amazing tool to help you test your
grammar. I stumbled upon this tool on twitter where one of my followers
mentioned me on a tweet about this great tool. I checked it, thought it was an
amazing tool. I instantly retweeted it, had it been you follow museguide on twitter
you would have noticed this tool first hand. It’s not too late to follow us
though via @museguide. <a href="http://englishgrammarpass.com/exercises/grammar_vocabulary/1Ob87wlFfV.html" target="_blank">Click here</a> for the link to the amazing tool </div>
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Are you suddenly out of steam? Read this!

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Many a time we would find ourselves in a situation where by
we couldn’t find the solution to our creativity cravings. A writer would be
seen by his writing desk with his pen and paper, or his computer system; if he
happens to be a digital freak like me. How about a painter, he would stay for
hours at his work station brush in hand with a blank drawing fabric in front of
him. How about a digital designer, staring at his blank computer screen with is
CorelDraw awaiting response from him? The truth is, he who claims to have never
found himself in such circumstances lies. So as a creative individual, how do
you get around such frustrating phase in one’s prolific life of creativity? I
will be putting you through some simple steps that mostly work.</div>
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held hostage by deadlines:-</b> Deadlines are like wicked commanders, they make
you push yourselves to complete missions. However they would shy away from
responsibility when you run out of gas. Take the most out of deadline by making
sure you stick to a healthy schedule. Don’t ever over work it, nor should you under
work it. When you stick to a healthy schedule, you won’t fall victim to a
knocking deadline because falling far behind schedule means deadline knocks far
ahead of anticipation, the only means to catch up would be to over work
yourself. That would only exhaust your gas.</div>
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</span></span></span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Please,
take a break:-</b> Don’t be the workaholic that bore himself with below par
pieces because of stress. Creativity is never forced, the more your heart and
mind is into it, the more beautiful its handwork. When you discover that you
are suddenly out of gas. That should be the right time to take a break. What
should you do when you take such break? When you take such break, the sole
purpose of the action is to clear your head and relief stress. Definitely, fun,
recreation and relaxation should top your list of priorities. If you are a
proactive individual like me, you would bend such break towards fun activities
that could nudge your muse into a state of motivation or confidence. Take for
example, if am stuck on a story and decided to relax by reading an amazing
novel. Do you know you could be gifted a grand spark of motivation as such. Let
your muse dictate how you would spend your break, in as much as you would want
a drift away from the cognitively exhaustive work station, you shouldn’t wander
too far in other not be at such stance where you totally lose sight of your
impeding or half done master pieces.</div>
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is the time to now brainstorm yourself so that you maximize the usage of your
newly found energy. By taking that break and relaxing amply, your muse would
have earned its lost energy. In other to maximize the usage of such energy, all
you have to do is equip your muse with nasty weapons so they would turn to
needed gangsters for that deadline.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>The
weapon in question would be the new ideas from your brief brain storming
session.</div>
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tank full of gas:- </b>Now is the time to test how abundantly you are refuelled
for that work of muse waiting patiently in your workstation.</div>
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Good luck to you as you get to
test out my outlined solution to that moment of block. Remember the muse in you
is greater a fire than an ocean of water can quench. Keep doing the creative
stuffs you are good at and remember that MuseGuide will always be here for you
to see you through your adventure as a musing individual.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>Have a blessed week.</div>
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I know it’s very convenient to stay in your comfort zone, to
do the ordinary and exploit the normal; to stay off the risk laden path to
extra ordinary. As safe as your comfort zone might be have you ever wondered if
it would keep you going forward or getting you stuck. As someone with an active
muse, it is expected of you to bring to life, mind-blowing masterpieces.
However these masterpieces just don’t come alive without a foundation made of
shrewd ideas. The truth is shrewd ideas comes from exhaustive brainstorming
which is often not a product of your comfort zone thinking. That is merely as
regard your sourcing for creative ideas. How about the eventuality of
transforming such ideas into the finished masterpieces your fan craves. Most
time that is even the hardest part. Severally we would have found ourselves
being able to generate one or two amazing ideas and content for our
breathtaking master pieces. However in executing these ideas, we realise; a
leap away from our comfort zone. We would realise a new approach might be
needed, or even new equipments and special skills, the sort of which we might
realise we are quite unfamiliar with.</div>
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Example can be seen with a Nigerian writer wanting to go a
bit sci-fi. Imagine how uncomfortable such premise might seem. Sci-fi to a
Nigerian writer is obviously out of our comfort zone. Definitely such writer
would find it difficult to execute his sci-fi idea. Other examples can be seen
with painters wanting to execute some 3D designs, imagine a 3D street art work.
Such ideas would be tough to execute as the issue of in experience and the fear
of its acceptance by people would be of utmost importance.</div>
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The purpose of this article is not to push you into
executing extremely out of your comfort zone ideas. Or crazy ideas like some people
will call it. However the sole purpose of this write up is to allow you to
consider trying something a bit different once in a while because the after
math of that difference no matter how minute it is might be an incredible acceptance
the like of which astound minds.<br />
Abd-afeez for the museguide team </div>
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