Twitches Too

about Timmy? Think about rising action… You’ve got the climax, but put “the bear in the closet.” Make it more plausible Make the background blatantly obvious in the first page Where the meat came from is not obvious enough Too much work for the reader, make everything more obvious Too ambitious with the placing of the hints and only revealing at the end. Result is that if it doesn’t work, it completely fails. Should I make everything obvious? Making everything obvious completely defeats…

“Maybe it’s a supernatural phenomenon!” Ace encourages from his place across Nami and Vivi. “Aliens could’ve done it!” Luffy chokes on his food. “Mhphh—!” “Don’t do that.” Zoro frowns at Ace as he reached over and pats Luffy’s back. “You’ll get him all excited over nothing.” Ace grins mischievously. “What if she’s an alien herself and she’s come to take over the planet!” Luffy’s arms are going everywhere and he’s babbling nonsense behind all the food in his mouth. Law, who’d been quietly…

loudly like we were at a football game. Soon, the spiders and worms cleared up so we could see the woman, looking more horrible than ever. “You came back!” we shouted. We see Arachni crawling up to us. He crawls up and unlocks the cage. “Get our parents too!” I say happily. Arachni and friends go to make a web for me and my family to get out of the cages. After a while of climbing, we reach all the way down. “Let’s drink the juice.” I say cheerfully. “You guys go ahead, I want to do something.”…

Cinematic Representations of Cognition in Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind Howard and Joel walk into the lab. The camera pans left in a POV shot, like from the perspective of a horrified spectator, from a screaming woman to Stan performing the memory operation. The background is plastered by a large film of the woman’s memories projected onto the wall. Howard speaks of the procedure in the background. With dynamic camera movements, attentive editing, unique approaches to mise-en-scene,…

The number should have been too large, even in this world. Since joining the group at the prison he had started to think that maybe he could live there. Take a break for once-- but he knows that was a lie. Every person who survived this mess had to have done something. He could leave…

The function of dreams has been a highly controversial topic throughout history, and at this point, no one fully comprehends why we dream (Hill, 1996). Philosophical explanations for dreams are dominated by Socrates and Plato, both of whom also believed in the psychological function of dreams. Plato thought that when our reasoning capacity was suspended during sleep, passions and desires revealed themselves (Hill, 1996). Similarly, Socrates argued that an unruly gathering of desires exists and…

Dancing Fool in School In the past I was an extremely bizarre schoolboy and performed abnormal actions to acquire interest from others at my elementary school like sporting a reddish helmet. Occasionally my muscle twitches caught the awareness of others. Young’uns approached me and questioned, “Why do you jerk your arms and feet like that?” I couldn’t expound it to them because I didn’t fucking comprehend it myself. Therapist Dan: “Do you recall the name of your medication by chance?” Me: “No,…

big part in the story? Are there other major crops too? Yams are not that big of a deal in the United States, and we are successful with plantations of a wide variety of different crops. 14. "But somehow Okonkwo could never become enthusiastic over feasts as most people." Pg. 37 paragraph 3 This quote can be related to me. When I was much younger, I used to be so excited about Christmas and Halloween and my birthday. Now, I feel that I am too mature to care about Christmas and my…

The anniversary of the death of my beloved friend and protector, Blitz, passed yesterday. Blitz was a tri-colored Collie who was a prince of a dog. When the wind ruffled his fur or he pranced he was the epitome of canine royalty. Blitz was a gentle soul who loved nothing more than to be with his family. We did everything possible together. Throughout his life he suffered from digestive ailments which caused him to feel unwell and quiet oftentimes. As I, myself, suffer from medical issues which…

(AGG) Najmah is this young girl who got most of her family taken away from her, and she has learned to live with what she has, but what would you do if you had a life like hers? (BS-1) Najmah's shape changes from being a innocent child to being a mature child that has grown up before she was supposed to. After Baba-Jan and Nur leave with the Taliban, Najmah grows up to think and act like a adult. (BS-2) Najmah’s shape after becoming a boy and striving her way to her goal, which is that she has…