![]() ![]() Barney teaches the kids "The Feel Good Rules". Kathy is scared to go to the doctor, so Barney and the others take her on a pretend doctor visit. When the kids want to go camping, Barney takes them on a camping trip, using the playground as their campsite.īarney and his friends learn how manners are important while having an after school picnic.īarney puts on a "Carnival of Numbers" for his friends so they can have fun with numbers.Īfter learning about different countries on a globe, Barney takes the kids on a trip to visit his friends in Scotland, Israel, Africa, China, and Mexico. They even take Baby Bop through pretend neighborhood buildings. Barney and his friends learn about various music styles, instruments, and that a little practice goes a long way.īarney and his friends explore their neighborhoods through pretend play. Michael is nervous and anxious about performing at a concert in the evening. When Luci's blind friend Patty arrives, Barney and the kids learn about the five senses and how they help everyone explore the world. Shawn is scared to get a job when he grows up, so Barney and his friends use pretend play to show how jobs aren't scary, and can even be fun. Things have gone buggy as Barney and the kids learn about bugs and insects. Derek and Michael disagree about who gets to keep a picture of Barney they made together, however. When a new girl named Tosha comes to school, Barney and the others learn about friendship. When a bookworm is eating Mother Goose's book, Barney and his friends help her rewrite her famous rhymes. It's Earth Week at school, and Barney teaches his friends about ways to save the Earth. As he does this, Barney and the kids do activities and sing songs using each letter. ![]() To help Kathy and Min learn how to read, Derek writes a mystery word, one letter at a time. It's Barney's birthday, and the kids throw a birthday party for him. Shawn gets over his fear of dogs by meeting Min's puppy. When Kathy and Min fight over whose turn it is to play with Barney, their purple friend shows them that sharing is wonderful.īarney and his friends take a make believe trip to Farmer Henderson's Farm (the playground with farm props) and learn about different farm animals.Īfter a storm drives the kids inside, Barney helps them chase their fears of things away. When "Rainbow Beard the Pirate" sends the group on a treasure hunt, Barney and friends explore the colors and shapes around everyone.Īfter Min leaves for a trip to her grandmother's house, Barney takes the kids on a trip to "Imagination City". Barney and his friends learn about exercise.īarney and his friends learn about the four food groups and how healthy food is good for one's body.īarney and the kids enjoy the fun of all four seasons in one day. Tina is upset that she cannot do a basketball trick as well as her sister Luci. Note: First appearances of Derek, Luci, Kathy and Baby Bop.īarney, Baby Bop, and the kids learn all about safety from traffic lights to dealing with strangers. Barney and the kids explore what make families wonderful. Kathy is sad because her family is too small. Note: First appearances of Min, Shawn, Michael, Tina, and the Barney Bag. Min becomes the "Queen of Make Believe" and Barney shows the kids different ways to use their imaginations.
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A mix of pride and accomplishment and utter dread at how bad it might be. So there you have it! Those are my tips on writing more succinct fiction prose.There’s no feeling quite like the moment you realized you’ve completely finished the rough draft of a work in progress. While it might not be something I do regularly, I think it would be a helpful exercise. I’m intrigued by the idea of writing a first draft in script-format, with mainly dialogue, then going back and filling in description during revision. (Obviously.) I think making more of an effort to move the plot along as discussed in #3 above will help with this. This might be the hardest thing on this list for me, because it’s not really my style. 5. Write bare-bones first flesh out later I call this the “beginning bloat,” and while it’s easy enough to cut out in revision, it’s better to not waste time writing it in the first place if you can help it. The usual reasoning behind it is that it hooks the reader more quickly, but it also cuts out a lot of unnecessary length. No “day-in-the-life-of” here, or build up, or exposition. This means you start in the middle of the inciting incident, when the plot has already kicked off. One common piece of writing wisdom is to start “in medias res,” or in the middle of things. This will help move the plot along and keep a draft from getting bloated. While I’m still going to record my daily word count, I’m going to try to focus on getting to the next plot beat. This makes me more likely to pad out scenes with unnecessary dialogue and description. One of the reasons I tend to write long is that I measure progress based on a daily word count target. 3. Write with plot beats, not word count, in mind Publishers are more interested in novellas than novelettes, and if all else fails I can easily indie publish a novella.įor more information on standard word counts for different formats, check out this article on the Reedsy Blog. This puts it firmly into novella territory rather than being novelette-length. On the flip side, if I think a story idea needs to be longer, I will aim for it to be longer than 20,000 words. If a story really needs it, I’ll go to 7,000 words, max. ![]() Since most horror publications cap submissions between 2,000 and 5,000 words, this will be my target word count goal from now on. If you know how long you want a story to be, you can judge how many words to devote to each scene. One mistake I’ve made in the past is to write my stories without planning how long I want them to be first. Not to mention that the more you cut, the more difficult and time-consuming the cutting becomes. Lastly, it’s a belief of mine that you can only pare down an already-written story so much before the narrative starts to suffer. The second reason is that I don’t want to waste time writing words only to delete them later. Believe it or not, the first drafts of all the stories listed above were all a good 20% longer. The first reason for this is that I’m already pretty good at editing a draft down. Write shorter first drafts (rather than edit down longer drafts)Īll of the tips on this list have to do with writing a shorter first draft, rather than trying to edit a longer draft into a shorter draft. Below are the steps I’m taking to do that. ![]() So one of my goals in 2023 is to make my short stories, well, shorter. But now I’ve got to write towards industry expectations. This is fine when I’m writing long-form fiction like my Cowboy Sorcererserial, and I could get away with it when I was indie publishing anthologies of my shorter stories. The first draft of my most recent short story is nearly a whopping 30,000! That’s not going to work for me, because every single one of the “short” stories in my stockpile are waaay longer than that. Imagine my chagrin when I picked up on a disconcerting trend: most horror markets cap short story submissions at 5,000 or 6,000 words, with a few going up to 7,500. Now is my time, I thought, imagining the publication credits I’d soon add to my author bio. ![]() I have an entire folder of them that are fully edited and ready for submission. Recently, I’ve been making an effort to submit my backlog of finished horror stories to various publications. ![]() Wait, do you need a phone first? Check out our guides to the Best Cheap Phones or our guide to how to factory-reset your old phone. We will show you how to do this, but we’ll also cover what to do if you have an older phone. 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![]() Whereas in most of the Northern Rhône, red wines must be made from Syrah only, Côte-Rôtie wines may include as much as 20% Viognier (see photo right), a fragrant white grape, in the blend. Syrah reigns supreme in Côte-Rôtie, but rules here allow for a slightly different formula in producing the wine. As in Hermitage, grapes grown here must be harvested by hand, and it is difficult work. They face southeast to take advantage of the abundant sunshine, and are thus protected from the cold winds that can descend from the north. Northern Rhône Take Two: The First Vines Planted in Gaul – Côte-RôtieĪt the very top of the Rhône Valley lies an intriguing area known as Côte-Rôtie (see photo left), which translates loosely as “roasted slope.” The name is apt, given that the vines grow on terraces etched into slabs of granite that rise almost perpendicularly from the banks of the Rhône River. Stay tuned for info on some other Northern Rhône wines, one of which is white (and the reason I fell in love with wine!) Wines made here are tailor-made for early drinking, with a blackberry fruit profile that hints at the esteemed wines grown just up the slope, and at a fraction of the price. Just outside the tightly prescribed area of Hermitage lies a much larger region called Crozes-Hermitage. Luckily there is a solution for those of us who lack either the funds or the patience to buy and age an artisanal Hermitage. But with prices in the triple digits, they are special treats for most of us. Not that these wines aren’t worthy: a well-aged Hermitage has a depth of flavor matched by few other wines. With such a small footprint, harvest and production here remain a fraction of the average in most places, which translates into high price tags. Perhaps the most famous parcel in the Northern Rhône is Hermitage (see photo right), whose imposing, blackberry-scented wines were sometimes used to pump up the volume in the wines of Bordeaux (a practice that endured until the mid-19th century.) The area under vine is startlingly small (320 acres), with the entire appellation about the size of a chateau in other regions. It is back-breaking work that results in some of the most beautiful wines in the world. The grapes are tended by hand as the steep slopes on which they are planted preclude harvesting by machine. ![]() Shiraz (see photo left) is the king of red grapes here, finding the warm climate and high, granite cliffs much to its liking. This week, the Tour slips in and out of the Northern Rhône Valley, my personal favorite region of France. As for the yellow jersey, I think Chris Froome will hold onto it until someone launches a savage attack against him (not likely until the riders are atop the Alps.) He’s always in the mix at the finish line, perhaps today is his day. Tall order! My pick for the stage win today is a man who can do it all – climb, sprint (and ride a wheelie uphill) – Peter Sagan. But it’s a rather long stage with two Cat 2 climbs, one of which comes at the very end of the day, and measures a grizzly 1,268 meters!Īnyone hoping to taste victory today will have to have legs fresh enough to haul him over the Col de Manse at the head of the main group in order to set up a successful sprint finish. Stage 16 is a bit tricky because at first glance it seems like a no-brainer for the sprinters seeking one last moment of glory, before the Alps leave them clinging to the back of the peloton. There is, however, one more to go before the rest day on Tuesday. ![]() Our riders probably feel like war-weary soldiers at this point as well.Īfter suffering through the torture of the Pyrénées, the peloton has survived a couple of surprisingly difficult transition stages the past few days. Through the ages it has been home to groups as diverse as the Romans, the Knights Templar, and Napoleon I, who made Gap his home for an extended period. This area, known as the Gateway to the Alps, has witnessed history dating back to the Neolithic Period. The Tour takes us over some well-traveled roads in Stage 16. ![]() I just wish they would settle on what they consider to be the perfect mesh and have done with it, and concentrate on Blender integration. I appreciate what they do, and I do try to keep up and get along with it, but they keep changing the way it intergrates with Blender, and regardless of the amount of iterations and methods used, it always manages to feel clunky. Regards the whole Manuel Bastioni and MakeHuman thing. ![]() Not only that, I believe MetaHuman Creator is housed in the cloud, has licence restrictions upon usage, and I’m not interested in solutions that can be taken away from me whenever the maker feels like it, so unfortunately, amazing as it is, MetaHuman Creator under Epic is of no interest to me. I have no intention of using Unreal Engine or any other 3D product.īlender is my product of choice. Thanks for the suggestion, but I’m looking at it from a strictly Blender-using standpoint. MetaHuman Creator is seriously impressive and you have to admit, that if it ever gets ported over to Blender as part of the downloadable package as default, that would be quite something! I’m generally not a forum user myself but felt driven to join-up here today specifically to ask this question. The more videos I see of what people are producing with it, the more painful (and worrying) it becomes that Blender doesn’t have this sort of thing built-in as standard. We really need this sort of hands-on ease of creation in Blender, and there’s no getting away from it, these things are extremely impressive, productive, and work for both amateurs and professionals alike. If it is, I really hope some bright-spark out there sees the need to port it over to Blender. Cannot tell you how many times I’ve checked the official Blender roadmap hoping to see something like this, but nothing like it ever shows up.ĭidn’t Blender team-up with Epic on certain development tasks some tiime back? It would be absolutely amazing to have MetaHuman Creator inside of Blender using Cycles and EEVEE, because isn’t the whole Unreal Engine thing Open Source as well? But I must admit it’s incredibly frustrating that this type of thing appears to be becoming the norm for other 3D products out there, but sadly not for Blender. I never will of course, I’ve been loyal to Blender since before I got my first grey hair, and nothing will ever change that. blend file and are compatible with Blender 3.2+.Does anyone know of any plans to add or port MetaHuman Creator to Blender? It’s so damn good it’s actually making me want to jump ship! The Human Base Meshes bundle is available free under a Creative Commons CC0 licence. There are instructions on-screen when you open the file, or you can see the process in the video above.Īnyone interested in using the assets in other DCC apps could then export them in any of the file formats that Blender supports, including Alembic, FBX, OBJ and USD. To use it, you will need to open the file in Blender and add the bundle to an Asset Library, from where assets can be added to a scene. There are versions for both photorealistic and stylised characters, making them suitable for a range of uses, including animation, motion graphics, game art and VFX.Īll are closed volumes with clean quad topology – the realistic assets have multi-resolution details – and come with UV maps, with support for the UDIM UV layout format.Ĭan be added to an asset library in Blender, then exported to other DCC applications It includes 17 separate meshes, including complete male and female figures, plus individual body parts like feet, hands, heads, jaws and eyeballs. ![]() Photorealistic and stylised 3D characters to use as a base for sculpting, rigging and animationĬreated by the team behind the Blender open movies, with contributions from the Blender community, the new asset bundle provides a useful base from which to create custom 3D characters. blend file, but can be exported from Blender for use in other DCC apps. The files, which are intended to give Blender artists a base from which to sculpt their own custom characters, include stylised and photorealistic male and female figures, plus a range of body parts. ![]() One unexpected bonus from the release of Blender 3.6 earlier this week was the Human Base Meshes bundle: an accompanying set of 17 character meshes created by the Blender Studio. Posted by Jim Thacker Download Blender Studio’s free Human Base Meshes On getting back to Mexico and finding Gaviota gone, he married a friend of his cousin's(Aaron) wife Minerva- a woman called Isadora who never succeded in seducing him as he was obssessed with finding Gaviota. By then other people had gathered round poor Gaviota and he had no idea the victim was his fiancee or that at that moment she'd lost their baby. She did see Rodrigo in London, at a distance, and very excited she ran across the street towards him but ALAS!!! she was knocked down by a car! Rod saw the the whole thing but did'nt know it was her he was about to hurry over to the scene but then his cellphone rang and he got the terrible news of his parents' untimely death in a plane crash. ![]() After Gaviota escaped from the brothel in Paris, she fainted in front of a restaurant where its kindly Italian chef/owner, Benvenutto(who later married her mum Clarita), gave her food and money for her fare to London after hearing her story. She and Rodrigo first saw each other face to face at Don Amador Montalvo's funeral when they both knelt down at the altar in front to pray for him- their eyes immediately met. I don't have to narrate the story line all over again except for a few differences. ![]() The protagonists are Teresa 'Gaviota' Hernandez (Angelica Rivera) and Rodrigo Montalvo (Eduardo Yanez). The story line is very much the same except instead of coffee being produced it is ( yuck!) tequilla the collectors gathered blue agave (a cactus-like plant) instead of coffee beans. In 2007, Televisa produced a 2nd remake of Cafe, (the 1st remake being Cuando Seas Mia produced by TV AZTECA) this one is called Destilando Amor(Distilling Love), also known as 'Essence of Love'. ![]()
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