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  Playwriting 101 - A Quick Guide...

  HowExpert, Marsh Cassady

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  To write for the theatre you need to know about theatre. Ideas are easy to come by. Examine your background, interest, and beliefs. Examine the world around you. Exercises can help you come up with ideas. Choose the audience you want to reach and write to that audience. To learn to write dialogue listen to and record everyday conversations. Dialogue should sound like ordinary conversations but has more direction. 
  Know as much as you can about your central characters. Do a character analysis. Choose the character traits to emphasize. A character should come across as both typical and individual. Most plays have a plot, which involves conflict between the protagonist and the antagonist. The parts of a plot are: inciting incident, rising action, turning point, climax, and falling action. Other types of organization for a play are circular and thematic. 
  Before starting to write, you need to develop a central idea. Plays exist for a number of reasons—entertainment, to bring attention to something, and to teach. You need to decide what you want to accomplish. It’s easier to gain an audience’s interest if you start with a theme they agree with. 
  A play needs a sense of universality. A play should be unified, but it also needs contrast. Since theatre is a collaborative art, the director, actor, and designers may see the different facets differently than you do. It’s not difficult to have a well-written produced. Possible markets are schools, organizations, and professional theatre. Finished plays have to follow a particular format. 
  About the Expert 
  Marsh Cassady has had thirty-eight plays published and/or produced—including Off-Broadway. A former theatre professor with a Ph.D. degree, he started a playwriting program at Montclair State in New Jersey that included beginning and advanced classes, workshops, and individual projects. 
  HowExpert publishes quick 'how to' guides on all topics from A to Z by everyday experts.

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  Farmhouse Revival

  Steve Gross, Susan Daley

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  A look at the farmhouses of the northeastern United States and their many approaches to their renovation, restoration, and interior design. The American farmhouse represents integrity, ingenuity, capability, and our rural and agricultural heritage. Farmhouses today are survivors from another era, constantly being rediscovered, revived, and restored in different, creative ways—though all share the same timeless aesthetic. In this fresh look at the American vernacular farmhouse, photographers Steve Gross and Susan Daley set out to document twenty revived farmhouses, and their stunning photographs illustrate the many individual approaches to the renovation, restoration, and interior design of the modern farmhouse. Found in many architectural styles, from humble Cape Cods to refined Greek Revivals, the homes in this book have all been reinvented over the years to accommodate individual tastes and changing needs while maintaining the spirit of a true American farmhouse. Furnished with vintage details—wood-burning stoves, enameled kitchen sinks, chenille bedspreads—and rooted in landscapes of rolling fields and mountains, these are the homes of the multigenerational families, solitary shepherds, graphic artists, architects, and organic farmers at the forefront of the renewed interest in the farming lifestyle. The accompanying text tells the history of each house, how it has been passed down from generation to generation or rescued from abandonment and neglect, and how the inhabitants live in and use the homes today. From three-hundred-year-old Sydenham House in Newark, New Jersey, to Sylvester Manor on Shelter Island, New York, this is a look at American culture through that most celebrated and quintessential building style, the farmhouse.Praise for Farmhouse Revival “Those interested in a homey, country style of decorating or in home restoration will be inspired.” ―Library Journal “Above all, the greatest joy is just looking at the beautiful time-worn places and appreciating the way those that came before led a happy and fulfilling life of simplicity and utility within their walls. For once you have read this book, you will realize that in many ways, it is the farmhouse that helps to restore us, and not the other way around.” ―Preservation.com “Buy the book Farmhouse Revival for the photos―for inspiration . . . the authors clearly know architecture and antiques.” ―Dan’s Paper “Perusing Farmhouse Revival is a marvelous experience . . . and is sure to make readers wonder what stories the farmhouses in their towns could tell.” ―Cleveland Plain Dealer

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  Latex Fashion Photography –...

  Miki Bunge

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  In this exquisite selection of more than 100 images from Goliath’s “Latex Fashion Photography” print anthology, the most tantalizing models are posing in their finest latex outfits in front of the cameras of the world’s best fetish and fashion photographers. This is unadulterated erotic elegance. A must for everyone who loves it tight and glossy!

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  The Creative Business Handbook -...

  Ekaterina Popova, Alicia Puig

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  It’s time to level up your career as a creative entrepreneur—but you don’t have to do it alone! Whether you seek to identify your big idea, gain financial independence, or grow your business, this handbook will help make your brilliant vision a reality. Art industry veterans Ekaterina Popova and Alicia Puig—the dynamic duo behind Create! Magazine and the art gallery PxP Contemporary—started their businesses from the ground up, learning best practices along their road to success, and they’ve filled The Creative Business Handbook with all their tips and resources. Popova and Puig will walk you through the process of building a brand in today’s fast-changing landscape, offering lessons from their diverse experience in the industry, numerous practical guides and ideas, and steady encouragement as you chart your own course.Divided into six chapters, each focusing on different stages of building and sustaining a business, the handbook also features exclusive interviews with inspirational founders, including Colossal’s Christopher Jobson, Danielle Krysa (The Jealous Curator), and award-winning contemporary art advisor Maria Brito. Get ready to be your own boss, whether you’re an aspiring artist, writer, designer, event organizer, consultant, curator, or any other sort of creative visionary!

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  Drawing Dragons - Learn How to...

  Sandra Staple

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  Step-by-step instructions on how to draw a myriad of fantastical, fearsome winged beasts in all their forms and poses. 
   
  In easy-to-follow, step-by-step detail, Drawing Dragons teaches you all the tricks and techniques you’ll need to create your own amazing dragons. You’ll discover how to draw all types of dragons using nothing but a pencil. Drawing Dragons shows how to bring to life fierce warriors and bearded ancients as well as baby hatchlings and protective mothers. It also features a special section on adding claws, scales, horns, jewels and other unique details to your dragons. 
   
  Learn to draw:Ferocious, attacking dragonsGraceful sea dragonsFire-breathing flying dragonsWise, thoughtful dragons

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  Why Is That So Funny? - A...

  John Wright

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  A practical investigation of how comedy works, by a well-respected practitioner and teacher. With a Foreword by Toby Jones.
  Comedy is recognised as one of the most problematic areas of performances. For that reason, it is rarely written about in any systematic way. John Wright, founder of Trestle Theatre and Told by an Idiot, brings a wide range of experience of physical comedy to this unique exploration of comedy and comedic techniques.
  The book opens with an analysis of the different kinds of laughter that can be provoked by performance. This is followed by the main part of the book: games and exercises devised to demonstrate and investigate the whole range of comic possibilities open to a performer.
  Why Is That So Funny? will be invaluable to teachers and performers and fascinating for anyone interested in how comedy works.
  'a welcome relief from the flood of performance studies theory, being firmly based in a lifetime of practice ... a must for any budding physical comedy performers - and an inspiration for everyone who treads the boards, whether they think of themselves as 'comedic' or not' Total Theatre Magazine
  'John Wright's magnum opus... a real labour of love and it is hard to believe that there is any aspect of the subject that he does not explore and explain... essential' British Theatre Guide

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