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Nietzsche Essay - Genealogy of Morals Book 3 and Ascetic Advocacy81

Nietzsche Essay - Genealogy of Morals Book 3 and Ascetic Advocacy

The essay that follows is a brief look at the three approaches to asceticism Nietzsche defined in book three of The Genealogy of Morals. This is obviously just one academic interpretation of the work. Nietzsche says that there are three kinds of...

5 comments    god religion humor
How to Direct Actors75

How to Direct Actors

Christopher Nolan = top notch direction So. When you have actors, you cannot picture these indivuduals as "tools" or another aspect or component in the movie you're making. Hell no. I know many aspiring directors who view acting just as that --...

11 comments    advice how to friends
How To Write Great Dialogue74

How To Write Great Dialogue

A great story is built on a framework of strong dialogue that moves the story along.

3 comments    entertainment education writing
How To Write Better Dialogue77

How To Write Better Dialogue

Great dialogue pulls the reader into your story. It reveals character, motivation, and emotion.

1 comment    how writing arts
Pretty Poems for Dirty Minds70

Pretty Poems for Dirty Minds

Beautiful poems about natural phenomena or dirty, sleazy texts of sin? You decide.

35 comments    poetry imagery adult humor
Review of Dean Koontz's "Your Heart Belongs to Me"72

Review of Dean Koontz's "Your Heart Belongs to Me"

The name of the book almost stopped me from reading it. "Your Heart Belongs to Me" sounded like another sappy girl-chases-guy romance, especially when I saw that the cover depicted a green-eyed beauty holding...

2 comments    samantha ryan dean koontz
Understanding Literal Thinkers, and How to be Understood By Them73

Understanding Literal Thinkers, and How to be Understood By Them

In this piece, I try very hard to "bring to life" what it is like to have a literal mind (especially as borne out of disease/disorder - such as Nonverbal Learning Disability) - and why we have such a very hard time processing the myriad figurative and joshing references of daily living "in real time". Adults, if they are fortunate, have probably become self-aware, and have begun to use coping strategies and are at least on the lookout for the likelihood that what they heard is not what was *mea

1 comment    ambiguity subtext literal thinking
Creating Captivating Characters63

Creating Captivating Characters

Everyone wants to create the next James Bond, Scarlet O’Hara, Holden Caulfield or Hamlet. But what makes a character memorable? does adding a bunch of random details to a character give life to him? Ask Sol...

2 comments    writing fiction story
Neutral Character in Acting62

Neutral Character in Acting

The Neutral character is incredibly important for all actors to know, the neutral character is a base on which to build a whole new person and character. The neutral character has no preset ideas, or even a previous knowledge of it's own body. ...

0 comments    drama acting audition
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