John's Systematic Fiction and Creativity (Shadow Blog)

Information about blogging

2009-04-19T17:16:00.004+01:00

Blogging

L & G = long gone

1) Long gone are the days when you could only write on paper

2) Write a blog and focus your thoughts

3) Thoughts on life can be written on blogs

4) On blogs you sometimes find several authors

5) Authors can write blogs to keep their fans up to date

6) Fans of blogs can leave comments

7) Comments can make blogs more dynamic and interactive

8) Interactive blogs may exist in the future

9) Future blogging sites will offer new features

10) Features on blogs can include posts, headings, comments and links

11) Links can guide people to related blogs

12) People can subscribe to their favourite blogs

13) Favourite blogs can have up to 50,000 subscribers

14) Up the top of a blog is the name of the blog

15) Of all the blogs I visit, very few I visit regularly

16) Regularly updating a blog can keep it current (make note to self ;) )

17) Regularly reading blogs can keep you up to date with trends

18) You can make a new blog in seconds

19) New blogs are often abandoned quickly

20) Quickly making a blog post can lead to spelling errors

21) Spelling is important if your blog is to be taken seriously

22) Important blogs may be the ones by the government of official bodies.

23) Important issues can be discussed on blogs

24) Discussed subjects on blogs include, sports, current affairs and your own life.

25) Sports events such as the Olympics may feature blogs by sports stars

26) Events can be announced on blogs before they are announced on the news

27) News programmes often have correspondents who blog.

28) Who invented blogging?

29) Who started the first blog?

30) First posts on blogs are often the hardest of all!

31) Hardest question is: "What to write about?"

32) What makes a good blog?

33) Good subjects make good blogs

34) Make a blog post following the KISS rule

35) Rules for blogging must be online somewhere?

36) Online communities write blogs

37) Blogs open up a world of opportunities

38) World leaders can write blogs

39) Leaders in any field can write a blog

40) Any blog can give ideas about improving your blog

41) Ideas for blogging can be found on specialist blogs

42) Specialist subjects will attract a specialist crowd

43) Attract new readers by being listed on Technorati

44) Listed at the side of a blog is recent posts, links and subscribing options

45) Side with an opinion and state your point of view

46) View a blog on the internet

47) Blog writers can post their blog posts by email

48) Emails can alert you to good blogs or blog posts

49) Good posts get lots of readers

50) Readers can email you with comments about your blog and posts

51) You can write as many blog posts as you like

52) Write a blog post as though you were talking to a friend

53) Talking is possible on a blog if you post a YouTube video of yourself

54) YouTube can provide inspiration for blog posts

55) Inspiration for blog posts can be found in newspapers

56) Inspiration for blog posts can be found by Googling, "Ideas for blog posts"

57) Googling can find blogs that suit your tastes

58) Find interesting blog posts by searching Technorati

59) Technorati needs to be pinged when you make new posts

60) Posts can vary in length

61) Length of blog posts can be varied

62) Varied subjects attract different readers

63) Readers can be fickle and usually decide quickly if they will visit again

64) Decide how often you will post

65) Post so that entries are easy on the eye

66) Easy posts to make are the ones that link to other blogs

67) Posts can contain dead links

68) Contained within a blog's template is code

69) Templates can affect the readability of blogs

70) Readability is one of the key factors when blogging

71) When you write a blog post you make a draft first

72) Drafts can be spell-checked

73) Be original and unique

74) Unique blogs tackle subjects in a unique way

75) Subjects can range from A to Z

76) From blogs you can take useful information

77) Useful blogs often tell you how to do something

78) Useful blogging tips are available online

79) Tips on blogging are often welcome

80) Tips can be worth remembering

81) Worth of a blog can increase with advertisements

82) Advertisements are available with Google AdSense

83) Google has a blog search

84) Search for good blogs by using links on other blogs

85) For every good blog there's ten bad blogs

86) Bad events in the news can be discussed

87) News events colour the blogging world

88) News can be made by blogs

89) By reading a blog you can find out about new things

90) By writing a blog you can crystalise your own thoughts

91) Writing can be improved by making regular posts

92) Be safe by not giving away personal information

93) Away from home and you can still blog

94) Home is where you write most of your blog posts

95) Posts can take anything from a couple of minutes to a few hours to write

96) Anything can be written on a blog

97) Anything that interests you can be written about or read on other blogs

98) Read your favourite blogs on Bloglines

99) Bloglines makes all your favourite blogs easy to find and read

100) Read through a post before you publish

Systematic Fiction: The GOTS and Middling

2007-07-29T04:13:00.000+01:00

(See main article: The Gods of the Story)

Take the following situation:

A clock tower contains a bell that is gold-plated and very valuable. However, there is no security at the clock tower. A group of guys decide to steal the bell. With ease, they enter the grounds and the tower, and proceed to the top. As they are removing the extremely heavy bell they hear police sirens.

The events occurring to the guys could be called an experience. The GOTS like this experience and would like to put others directly into that situation to see how they fare. This is middling.

With the supertools, making others have this experience is easy: the GOTS can supermove the robbers to another location (perhaps a safe location), supersee any group of people, possess that group and then supermove them to the clock tower. Here the GOTS appear to them and brief them about the situation and add a condition that the members of the group cannot mention the GOTS to anyone else or how they got into that situation. The GOTS then disappear, leaving the unfortunate group to deal with the predicament.

The GOTS can leave the situation as it is and observe using the supersee tool, or they can "play with their power" and develop the situation in any way they choose. For example, They could possess the police, turn up at the clocktower and make an announcement such as "We won't arrest you on the condition that you carry out (some task) for us". Or they could appear as the owner of the bell (perhaps by possessing someone), climb to the top of the tower and announce "You have passed my test. Now I want to employ you". Or they could possess one of the group and perhaps feign a heart attack or panic attack. Or they could use their supertools to make it seem as though the bell is cursed: maybe anyone who steals the bell suffers an extreme degree of bad luck. The GOTS can use their supertools to create endless possibilities as to the nature of the curse's effects.

With their supertools the GOTS can easily transform the bell tower experience so that it occurs in any place, or with any objects or with any people. For example, they could supermove a pot of gold to the middle of a desert and then supermove a group of people there to see how they deal with their windfall in a harsh environment.

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Systematic Fiction: Lexicon

2007-07-27T17:44:00.000+01:00

Experience: a sequence of events that the GOTS can recreate by the use of their supertools.

GOTS: The Gods of the Story. A group of all-powerful beings who can do anything by the use of six supertools.

GOTS post

See also: Systematic Fiction Project: Introduction.

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How to quickly create a list of verbs

2006-08-23T22:06:00.000+01:00

There are five stages in this technique for the listing of verbs:

1) Find some text
2) Pick two letters from the text
3) Form some one-syllable verbs using those letters
4) Form some two-syllable verbs (where possible) using those letters
5) Form some three-syllable (or more) verbs (where possible) using those letters

Note: If I name a noun (or any other non-verb) I can convert it into a verb or consider what the word would mean if used as a verb. For example: hot converted into a verb = heat. Bus would suggest the transporting of people. Gun would suggest either an attack or giving someone a gun.

Examples

Random letters = a and s

One syllable = ask
Two syllable = ascribe, assume, assuage, assail, assay
Three syllable (or more) = assimilate
Asunder interpreted as a verb would suggest the tearing of something (to pieces).

Random letters = b and t

One syllable = bet, bat, boat, beat
Two syllable = batter, battle, better
Three syllable (or more) = beautify
But interpreted as a verb suggests the finding of objections.

Random letters = s and t

One syllable = stop, sit, set, seat, sort, storm
Two syllable = stammer, struggle, stymie
Three syllable = saturate, stupefy
Stealth interpreted as a verb would suggest helping someone to do something secretly, or making something hidden but effective.