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How to Characterize Your Heroes

How to Characterize Your Heroes

Characterization. Portrayal of fictional characters. That is one of the most important parts in fiction writing. All writers can create characters. But not all of them can create characters who will spawn emotion within the readers.

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Simple Idea Yet Unexpected

Simple Idea Yet Unexpected

Did you know, every good book has always one simple idea which easy to understand, but unexpected. Just one. Not that more ideas in a book is forbidden. But, the books that stick on readers’ mind have only one simple idea yet unexpected. I give you examples. The Secret: “Ask, you’ll be given”. Message...

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Pencak Silat Movie Goes International

Pencak Silat Movie Goes International

In the heart of Jakarta‘s slums lies an impenetrable safe house for the Indonesian most dangerous gangsters. Cloaked under the cover of pre-dawn darkness and silence, an elite SWAT team raids the apartment in order to take down the notorious drug lord. It runs well, until the lord caught them. The building’s lights are...

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Writers Love to Write a Writer Character, Why?

Writers Love to Write a Writer Character, Why?

I notice that writers have been always tempted to write in his work a main character who is a writer. Including myself. First, because a writer knows how the writer is. Second, because there are many great stories behind writing profession. A writer is a person with high dose of curiosity. And a writer...

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Lagi, Lomba Novel Berhadiah Puluhan Juta dari DKJ

Lagi, Lomba Novel Berhadiah Puluhan Juta dari DKJ

Akhirnya Dewan Kesenian Jakarta (DKJ) kembali menggelar Sayembara Menulis Novel Dewan Kesenian Jakarta 2012. Koreksi kalau saya salah, tapi sepanjang pengetahuan saya, inilah lomba penulisan novel yang iming-iming hadiahnya paling besar. Nama-nama besar pun berlahiran dari lomba ini.

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