21st January 2008
It has been said that the American detective story began sometime in the later nineteenth century. Many critics give credit to an author named Anna Katherine Green for starting this American version of what was already an interest in Europe. Shortly after...
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21st January 2008
The factors that influence a writer or author to create such perfectly detailed work are often questioned. Whether it is a situation that they were somehow involved in or presented or another author's work which they read and felt the need to make their o...
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21st January 2008
Bouldering is a kind of rock climbing which involves relatively short climbing distances made without a rope and without any special climbing equipment. While people climbing the face of a boulder are generally only going up a few meters, the surfaces tha...
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20th January 2008
Ice climbing is similar in some ways to rock climbing in that it involves techniques for handling a vertical or nearly vertical ascent - however, while many of the methods and even some of the gear used for ice climbing is similar to that of rock climbing...
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09th November 2007
Classic detective fiction is the type of fiction that really makes a reader focus on the pages. These types of stories are not generally very gory or bloody as such stories can be today, but they do hold some blood and gore inside the pages; they just rel...
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09th November 2007
Even the characters in books have loyal and adoring fans. One such character is the most popular detective of all fictional detective classics. His name is Sherlock Holmes. His fans still visit the address that Sir Arthur Conan Doyle so gave him long ago ...
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06th November 2007
Before the world was treated to the many ‘flavors’ presented by motion pictures, people had other brilliant ideas to entertain themselves. They exercised their imaginations through reading all sorts of books and related forms of written literature.
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31st October 2007
It is not commonly known, except of course amongst Sherlock Holmes afficionados, that the illustrator responsible for the sketches that accompanied the stories of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s most famous character in The Strand Magazine, only became so by a...
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18th September 2007
A lot of people are taking an interest in affiliate marketing as a way to either make a living or to earn supplementary income. The growth of affiliate marketing isn't all that hard to understand, as it provides a way to make money from retail products w...
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18th September 2007
Individuality.It's never too early to start developing your own style. Individuality is always something well worth cultivating, even for the new student. By studying established cartoonists/artists, and noting their particular peculiarities. ...
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31st August 2007
If the same amount of system were applied to the teaching of various forms of drawing that is devoted to the teaching of writing, You wouldn't so often hear people say, "Oh no, I could never learn to draw! They tried to teach me at school, but I was no go...
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29th August 2007
Cartooning is great fun, and having aquired the skill, is a wonderful way of making a good living. However, everyone needs to start at the beginning, and here are a few pointers to bear in mind as you set off.
Always use good quality materials, this sh...
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28th August 2007
Most ideas used in cartoons are old jokes rehashed. For instance you may hear a good joke at the theatre, or when mixing with friends, on the street even, and then go home and write it up with any additional ridiculous detail you can imagine and add.
T...
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