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NEALE SOURNA's CuntSinger and MORE
It's pronounced (neel sore-nah).

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Listen to Promo Then Listen to Neale on Tony Kay's Show at www.ArtistFirst.com June 17, 2009 at 9pm EST

Neale with Tony Kay about CuntSinger and writing (one hour, edited):

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Available NOW! Your NEW handbook on cunnilingus, a new tongue-book on how to... Have her fall completely in love with THE WAY YOU MAKE LOVE to her. She'll NEVER say, "No," again, to the MOST IMPORTANT LOVER in HER LIFE, after you've SUCCESSFULLY and EASILY learned to FULLY SATISFY HER. Neale Sourna's CuntSinger Cunnilingus: How to Give Head (Oral Sex and Eating Pussy), for Giving Women Orgasms of Cuntlicious Joy! Tons of Sexual Reference Information from Today's Research and Romantic Sexuality Forums - Fun, Sexy Games - and More!! Neale Sourna's CuntSinger ISBN 978-0-9796841-5-9 eBook in MSReader (18,345 kb) / MobiPocket (358 kb) now, more formats and print coming www.CuntSinger.com

Neale Sourna's CuntSinger Cunnilingus: How to Give Head (Oral Sex and Eating Pussy), for Giving Women Orgasms of Cuntlicious Joy! Listen to Promo Then Listen to Neale on Tony Kay's Show at www.ArtistFirst.com June 17, 2009 at 9pm EST Neale with Tony Kay about CuntSinger and writing (one hour): SournaInterview--ArtistFirst--06-17-09.wav (498,636 kb), SournaInterview--ArtistFirst--06-17-09.mp3 (46,748 kb) or download directly from ArtistFirst.com http://www.artistfirst.com/bookshows.htm

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I have soft core and hardcore and short and long stories. Be curious and come, or should that be cum, and see and read FOR YOUR OWN PLEASURES.--Neale

BANNED! "Neale Sourna's CuntSinger," a NEW BOOK on Cunnilingus Banned! By Other Writers

BANNED! "Neale Sourna's CuntSinger," a NEW BOOK on Cunnilingus Banned! By Other Writers

"Hey. Just got banned from my writer's group. Seems to be for promo-ing--which is allowed--with no more than the promo in the next column from 'Listen to Promo' down to sample doc. Must be the TITLE.

"Really, folks, it's not a foul word no more than calling someone a 'feminist' or an 'abortion doctor' or a 'dick'. People laugh when you call someone dick, it was a major run-on joke in 'Robocop' which tons of kids saw in the theater.

"And they make 'pussy' jokes on the sly, as well. So, what's the fuss?

"Well, cunt that.

"I've been banned on the internet. Again. By writers.

"Writers can be such pussies, except when they FINALLY stand up and WGA STRIKE. Hm, novelists and nonfiction types don't strike. Well, Pu-C's to that."

--Neale Sourna

Listen to Promo [http://www.cuntsinger.com/ArtistFirst--06-17-09-Promo.mp3]

Then Listen to Neale on Tony Kay's Show at www.ArtistFirst.com June 17, 2009 at 9pm EST

Neale Sourna's CuntSinger

Cunnilingus: How to Give Head (Oral Sex and Eating Pussy), for Giving Women Orgasms of Cuntlicious Joy!

Tons of Sexual Reference Information from Today's Research and Romantic Sexuality Forums - Fun, Sexy Games - and More!!

Neale Sourna's CuntSinger ISBN 978-0-9796841-5-9

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Listen to Promo Then Listen to Neale on Tony Kay's Show (radio program) at www.ArtistFirst.com June 17, 2009 at 9pm EST

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Shall I add more to the muddle?

"Calling all my cunnilingus, cuntsucking, muff diving, vagina licking, pussy hungry, tipping the velvet, carpet licking friends. You'll find many wet stories of slippery muff munching, tongue fucking, clit sucking, clitoris loving and more available to add to your private stock of oral sex pleasure inducing faves.And that's not just cunny lip service, my charming cunning linguists.

"All you master cuntsinger's who can't get enough of cuntsinging.

"Just put your nose right in here and poke around, my gamahuche lovers.

"So, while you're taking a moment away from eating her out, and relaxing and visiting me here, just GIVE ME FIVE (5) RELAXING, BUT EXCITING MINUTES to STRETCH YOUR MIND and EXERCISE YOUR EMOTIONS and, well, your HAPPY glands, because all you really need to know about

the true me and what I write, as YOUR BEST WRITER OF CHOICE, for ebooks and paperbacks, is that I enjoy writing for my WARM PLEASURE, and for you to SHARE MY DEEP FANTASIES, until you, too are SATISFIED WITH PLEASURES OF ALL KINDS.

"So, know that love and sex are good sorcery, when the right two, or more, people get together, and that YOU'LL FIND their STORIES HERE TO BUY and read to your love one, for their satisfaction, too. And, READ THEM AGAIN, AND AGAIN. Like all great sex and love."

--Enjoy my love and lust, Neale Sourna

PS: "Just GIVE ME FIVE (5) RELAXING, BUT EXCITING MINUTES or JUST READ FIVE (5) of my PAGES here."

--Neale Sourna

Listen to Promo Then Listen to Neale on Tony Kay's Show (radio program) at www.ArtistFirst.com

Neale Sourna's CuntSinger Cunnilingus: How to Give Head (Oral Sex and Eating Pussy), for Giving Women Orgasms of Cuntlicious Joy! Tons of Sexual Reference Information from Today's Research and Romantic Sexuality Forums - Fun, Sexy Games - and More!! Neale Sourna's CuntSinger ISBN 978-0-9796841-5-9 www.CuntSinger.com Listen to Promo Then Listen to Neale on Tony Kay's Show (radio program) at www.ArtistFirst.com June 17, 2009 at 9pm EST

"Continuous effort — not....

You're crafting a character and cleverness or strength seems boring.

Think of this, of "continuous effort," while writing for a character versus one of strength of clever intelligence; think Bruce Willis in the "Die Hard" films, not dumb, not weak, but his winning plus is always striving, against glass, bombs, and those believing and knowing and are more clever and more strong. But, who's the "Last Man Standing"?

This can also be "continuous compassion," because compassion and heart and caring are usually considered concerns for "pussies," well, pussy rules, ask your mother, she has one.

"Continuous effort — not strength or intelligence —
is the key to unlocking our potential."
— Winston Churchill: Was an author, soldier, and the U.K. prime minister

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"Involve me (in your story, in your tale) and I learn (and feel it)."

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"Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I
remember. Involve me and I learn."
— Benjamin Franklin: 18th century statesman, scientist, and writer

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Available Starting in late May 2009! Your NEW handbook on cunnilingus, a new tongue-book on how to... Have her fall completely in love with THE WAY YOU MAKE LOVE to her. She'll NEVER say, "No," again, to the MOST IMPORTANT LOVER in HER LIFE, after you've SUCCESSFULLY and EASILY learned to FULLY SATISFY HER. Neale Sourna's CuntSinger Cunnilingus: How to Give Head (Oral Sex and Eating Pussy), for Giving Women Orgasms of Cuntlicious Joy! Tons of Sexual Reference Information from Today's Research and Romantic Sexuality Forums - Fun, Sexy Games - and More!! Neale Sourna's CuntSinger ISBN 978-0-9796841-5-9 (120 page/18.7 MG eBook in MSReader/MobiPocket now, more formats and pring coming) www.CuntSinger.com

Neale Sourna's CuntSinger Cunnilingus: How to Give Head (Oral Sex and Eating Pussy), for Giving Women Orgasms of Cuntlicious Joy! Table of Contents Copyright © 2009 by Neale Sourna/PIE: Perception Is Everything's Clear Focus Imprint Librarians-nonfiction: 1. Sexuality 2. Women-Sexual behavior 3. Marriage 4. Relationships-self-improvement 5. People with disabilities-Sexual behavior

"This is Dedicated..." Table of Contents Author Statement ALL ARE WELCOME HERE. And what does author Neale Sourna know about it? How many of us actually learned sex from a sex professional? Back to "talented, dedicated amateurs" versus "paid professionals." Why music? Because, THE BEST WAY TO HAVE JOY is to GIVE JOY. Because I LOVE sex and love and I want to share this with you. Because, DID YOU KNOW: The complete lack of knowing what to do. My friends, "Ignorance is [not] Bliss. " 81% of all women REGULARLY ACHIEVE ORGASMS FROM CUNNILINGUS (kun'-nih-lin'-gus),… PS: Don't be tense. PPS: Challenge each other with a Game of Lie and Tell: Why "Singer," "Singing," and "Sing"? Music taught me, and still does; that… Singing is easy. Why THAT Word, "Cunt"? PS: cunt And, Finally, Why the Fiction Excerpts? Author's Acknowledgements Remember: Knowledge is powerful Cunnilingus: How to Give Head (Oral Sex and Eating Pussy), for Giving Women Orgasms of Cuntlicious Joy! Introduction. "I pulled up a chair, pushed up her skirt, and…" WARNING: "Just Foreplay" Best Sex EVER! For Her, With You. YOUR MOST IMPORTANT SKILL: Communication. Game: Guide. Game: Guide Communication Practice Game: "Silence" Game. "Both of You-ALWAYS Be Positive." When is it over? "Since I Became Paralyzed…." Research Stuff: How Her Equipment Works. Wet. Scent. Hold the Fish: Vulvas Can Smell or Taste Unpleasant, Because: "Taste Yourself." Cunnilingus: Definition. "Wait! What's Her Clitoris, and Where the Hell is It?" Cunt/Vulva Image Basic Skills and Stats. "Her clitoris can be too sensitive to touch...." "Oral sex gets around issues of…" Your Basic Oral Tools. Cunnilingual Movements. Education, Partners, and Restrictions. Pregnancy. CULTURAL, SPIRITUAL, and RELIGIOUS SIGNIFICANCE; and a BIT of LEGAL HISTORY. "Worldwide Cultural Attitudes." "Desire and Self-Esteem." "Cultural Legalities." Religious Culture: Chinese Spiritual Taoism.

"The Great Medicine of the Three Mountain Peaks…" Culture Philosophy: Indian Tantra. "Songs of Solomon." "If Dara wished to allow the princess to touch her,…." THE ICKY MEDICAL STUFF. "Ew!" Yucky Stuff: STD, HPV, and Alleged Oral Cancer Risk. Personal STD control. "And, just so you know:" Oral Sex STD Prevention. Warning: Dental Dam and Condom Protection. Popular Culture and Slang. "Frank and Louisa are too busy to notice what we…." MASTERING CuntSinging BASIC ARTISTIC SKILLS. Learning to Play-Your Way. A Bit More on Women's Social History "Dirty Girl"-character Baby Stewie, TV's "Family Guy." "He stared between my legs, as he slid…" HELPING HER RELAX and PREPARE. "Prolonged Foreplay/Diddling. Or Fun, Creative Stuff!" "Kiss Her. Long. And Deep." "Be Kind, Unwind." Retooling Your Senses. With Her Stuff. (nonfetish) Game: Your Sensitivity to Sensuality. Game: "Sensitive Sensuality, for Two." With Her Stuff. (still nonfetish) Game Interruptus: Weekend Scents. Two Hours. More Cleanliness Issues. Women hate that! Misc. on Pubic Hair: "To Be or Not to Be"-from William Shakespeare's "Hamlet" You Massage Her, Sensually. IN A HURRY? DON'T BE, OKAY, START HERE THEN. Yes, Make Your Mouth and Tongue Wet and Slippery. Don't Bash and Butt Your Hard Face into Her! When She Reacts Well to Your Action. Repeat It. When She's More Warmed Up. "Get Up and Do It, Again. Amen."-lyrics, Jackson Browne's "The Pretender" NOW, BACK TO YOUR DELICIOUS MAIN COURSE RE-WARNING: Don't plan it the same.... Back to School, for Your "ABCs"! Game: A-B-C Sex. Sex, Sexual, Loving, Creativity. Women's Advice: " 'Alphabet Letters' is Absurd." [Sex is a process, not an end all be all goal.-NS] Clitoris Circling. Clitoris Sucking.

Warning: Highly aroused. Oyster Practice. BONUS GAMES. Game: Hornblower. Game: Red Light, Green Light. Game: Feather Your Nest. POSITION(S). GET A MOVE ON. "69" [Tell the Kids, "It's the Year the Mets Won Their First World Series!"] Backward. More 69, Kind of. Doggy, or, as I prefer, "Doggy-Doggy." Facesitter. Doggy Sit ["I think I just made this one up!"] "Knees Up, Honey." Legs Flat. Knees, Fluid Movements, and Agony. The ONLY Sex for Some. MORE on COMFY POSITIONS. Yes, MORE. FGM Diagram 1: WARNING: Don't break rhythm. MORE Warnings and Advice. Women's Forum Advice: Again. "DO NOT Immediately Dive for Her Clitoris... Women's Forum Advice: "Take Your Leisurely and Loving Time." Reminder: "Be Extremely Gentle." "This Pleasure's for Her; Watch, Listen, and Hear Her." Insert Here. Maybe. Male Advice Paraplegic Man's Advice. Paraplegic Woman's Advice: "Braingasms." Lesbian Advice "Orgasm: After Injury (Physical, Emotional, or Spiritual)." More Forum Advice Women's Advice: "Any oral is great oral." NO. It's Not. Women's Advice: "Listen! Take notice!" Women's Advice: Communicate. Ask for "Tips." Game: Her Slave. Game: "Sweet Nothings" and "Puppet." "Ladies of the English Harem" CuntSinger BONUS: Add Fingersex. No "Performance." No "Task." More Training Your Senses. BEST OF BOTH-MULTITASKING: Clit AND G-spot! Putting Your Finger(s) In. WARNING 1: Nails. WARNING 2: No wet spot. Squirming and Breathing Heavily. Her, Not You! "Ejaculation. The Joy of 'Squirting'." "I Have to Pee." WARNING: Forbidden Pleasure. ANOTHER BONUS: Female Ejaculation. WARNING: Salt. Warning: Doctor's office. Focused Awareness. "Go Forth, and Influence Women." [120 pages/ebook/9pt font]

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Heartwild Solitaire is Real Arcade Staff Game Pick!!

Heartwild Solitaire [with story by Neale Sourna] has been awarded a Staff Game Pick badge at Real Arcade. Which is cool, since they're like one of the biggest game portals and accept only selected products for their portfolio.

Also, the game is currently #6 on their best sellers list. --Darek Rusin, www.OrchidGames.com

Gamasutra--What Every Game Developer [and Writer] Needs to Know about Story

What Every Game Developer [and Writer] Needs to Know about Story

Increasingly, story is a hot item in games. Partly, this is because the quality bar is rising in this relatively young art form. As games evolve, people want more depth, not just higher polygon counts.

More to the point, game developers want to sell their wares to more people. Selling them to the same ones every time doesn't lead to a lot of growth. It's clear we need to tap into something more universally human.

And story is a universal human experience.

So how do we approach story in games? Well, to answer that, we need to look at what has worked in other story forms, and what is unique to the new story form of games.

Let's start with a statement everybody can agree on: Games aren't movies.

But that by itself doesn't get us very far. To figure out what games are, it's helpful to back up to an earlier problem: Movies aren't plays.

In the early part of the 20th century, moving pictures were a curiosity, an amusement. They had their addicts right from the beginning, to be sure. But they didn't become a substantial lasting art form until they discovered two related things:

1. They are a form of story, not just a new toy.
2. Their particular form of story differs from all previous forms of story, and has other things in common with all forms of story.

The same is true for games.

The first attempts to make movies into real stories failed. They failed because they were conceived as filmed plays. A camera would be set up about where an audience member would sit in the middle of a theater, and the play would ensue.

It didn't work. Early film makers didn't take into account that the human eye wanders all over the fixed box of the stage during a play, and a camera that does any less will bore the film audience to tears. They also hand discovered the rich tool set of camera angles, close-ups, far shots, and all the language of film we now take for granted. Generally speaking, they hadn't discovered what this particular story form was good at.

And frankly, neither have we in games.
Common misperceptions

There are a number of places where we've gone wrong in game stories so far. Most of the problems spring from two basic misunderstandings:

* Story is dialog.
* Story doesn't matter.

Sure, story is partly dialog. And a cake is part frosting. But here's a large fact that I'll elaborate on in just a moment: Story is....more article and Part 2

At Gamasutra--Game Story: Plot vs Character

07.28.2005

Game Story: Plot vs Character
In reading Sutherland's article on game story I didn't see anything new--at least not to a seasoned writer--but I did notice a gap.

Although Sutherland discusses character and internal conflict, he misses an important point of story development: character change is essential to plot movement. And for game developers, it's essential to player engagement in the story.

All good stories demonstrate change in the character of the protagonist as well as his/her condition in life and the world they intimately inhabit. If no character change occurs, the plot is dissatisfying. It is only when character changes that new plot options open up, which is how a character may choose an action at the end of a story which would be anathema or inconceivable to them at the beginning. That's the exciting point of story.

If a game story is merely a repetitive or pre-determined path through a series of tasks (such as endless "Fed-Ex" back-and-forthing), the game quickly becomes boring--no matter how lovely and twisted the cutscenes are. By setting story points which force character change and revelation, the game development team offers the player a more engaging experience, because they mutually create a sense of personal stake in the outcome.

Driving story by character versus plot.

Since games put the player into the character's "skin" for a time, the personality of the player becomes a tool for story exploration and raises the perception of personal stake in the story outcome. When developers offer the player branching points (reversals, revelations and branching options), they place increased control (or a perception of control) of character evolution in the player's hands and the player becomes a fully-vested partner in the progress of the story.

That interacton and engagement is an essential strength of games that other media do not offer. It's that strength, created by good story-telling and intelligent branching options, which creates great game experience and increased satisfaction as well as replayability.

Character is not just clever dialog--it's the key to engaging players at a personal level.

-Kat Richardson

Neale Sourna says Thank you to and for Alanis Morissette's "Thank U"

Thank you to and for Alanis Morissette's

"Thank U"

how bout getting off these antibiotics
how bout stopping eating when I'm full up
how bout them transparent dangling carrots
how bout that ever elusive kudo

thank you india
thank you terror
thank you disillusionment
thank you frailty
thank you consequence
thank you thank you silence

how bout me not blaming you for everything
how bout me enjoying the moment for once
how bout how good it feels to finally forgive you
how bout grieving it all one at a time

thank you india
thank you terror
thank you disillusionment
thank you frailty
thank you consequence
thank you thank you silence

the moment I let go of it was the moment
I got more than I could handle
the moment I jumped off of it
was the moment I touched down

how bout no longer being masochistic
how bout remembering your divinity
how bout unabashedly bawling your eyes out
how bout not equating death with stopping

thank you india
thank you providence
thank you disillusionment
thank you nothingness
thank you clarity
thank you thank you silence

http://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/alanismorissette/thanku.html

Neale Sourna's Writing-Naked.com: Quality, Professional, Profound

Neale Sourna's Writing-Naked.com

Your screenplay, novel, your dialog and visuals need hardcore writing and intense character rebuilding or revisualization, it needs its impact to be more, well, impact-y; invest in fine writing and great storytelling. Quality pricing gets you quality writing; by byline or ghost (ghostwriting).

Only make contact if you're truly ready to be serious about investing in and doing the very best for your project; when you want a voice that's strong, profound, and farseeing--whether scifi/adventure, romance, spiritual, or drama.

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"I will not fear.
Fear is the mindkiller.

Fear is the little death
That brings total Oblivion.

I will permit my fear to pass
Over me and through me.

And where it has gone
I will turn the inner eye.

Nothing will be there
Only I will remain."©

from Frank Herbert's DUNE.

What is Writing Naked?

Don't think that I have it ALL worked out for the now and future, I need help sometimes as much as you may need quality assistance, and I've most certainly been told, on several occasions, that I really need help. :) But I've gotten somewhere you may not have been yet, and perhaps I, or my associates, can help you.

Who doesn't need help sometimes? Myself, I've gone it alone too many times even when I shouldn't've. I've learned from it.

Bad and good. Negative and positive. Yet nearly everything I have, everything I've experienced, have seen, heard, felt goes into my writing--ALL of it--truths and lies and subterfuges all. But, if that makes you nervous and scared, don't read any further.

Boldness.

THAT'S WRITING NAKED.

I've read on the web that author Victor Hugo of "Les Miserables" and "The Hunchback of Notre Dame," etc. often wrote naked, which means, considering the thickness of his books, that he must've been naked a LOT! And cold and wet!!

But, here, with me, you can keep your clothes on, or not.

As any storyteller can tell you or anyone who's lived a life, crap happens and characters, even YOU, could change this story of mine completely all around. Or I change yours.

When that happens in my stories, the surprises are startlingly grand. And.... [http://www.writing-naked.com/]

Naked Gaming: What’s Your Character(s) Heart?

Naked Gaming: What’s Your Character(s) Heart?
By Neale Sourna
Copyright Neale Sourna 2008

“Who am I, MMORPGer? And Who are You, for That Matter?”

I’m curious about you, MMORPGer; and wonder who you are, deep inside.

There are a lot of faces of me, deep inside me. Wind songs and traveling songs talk to the free and footloose spirit in me, making me feel more at home, on the roads of my mind, than at my “home” home.

Does that ever happen to you?

Y’know, do you hear songs or certain word triggers and feel ancient things you’d long forgotten until triggered; about wayward winds or tumbling weeds and talking phantom spirits of dead cowboys, lost on a fantasy wide range, still herding dead herds from Hell without borders or fences.

Freedom and mobility locked in a fantasy’s context; enslaved to that context; or at least merely entirely engrossed.

When triggered, I FEEL that freedom and mobility within me; even on those days when I’m locked inside and hardwired to a thousand things keeping my feet to the taxpayer’s fire, and not at all thinking of MMORPGs.

But, in my head and heart there are cowherds, space warriors, American Civil War officers, Arabic scimitar specialist warriors, vampires with transformation powers when they reach a certain age of strength, and more. A nonending cinematic, plethora of lush detail and meaning and emotion I can never truly explain to anyone, not in just a few minutes.

That’s why there are novels, and graphic novels, and miniseries, and sequels. And MMORPGs. Free ones online and paid ones there, too.

It’s a video game in my head, and it’s always been that way, but now we have the means and ways to explain that to others. Or share with others, and that’s good, because writers usually write alone, and readers normally read alone.

“They Just Don’t Get Me.”

My past experience has always been that Space Invaders and Mario weren’t able to keep up with the wildly graphic and emotionally depth-filled things going on in my Fine Arts, Film and Video, screenwriter, novelist’s mind. This isn’t a resume, so I’ll stop my list right there.

This is me taking a step or two closer to online gaming.

And why I haven’t is that I have a LOT of juice going through my head and body, electrically, already; and contact with crowds and communications equipment, and other busy things, like a lack of sleep just jolt me up all the more.

So, offline games make me nervous, and I’ve assumed, too, that online ones would be about the same, for me; but I also imagined worse, since not only are you playing those old systems, which had glitches, like knowing you’ve hit the spot, but the game says not.

I also have always figured I have enough “real” people telling me no, without a “system” doing the same, and being just as wrong as some people I know. But I gripe, and kvetch.

That was my past experience. The past is over, although it seems to keep informing us and doing recalibration checks on us, as if trying to reset us to a past and outmoded ideal.

“A New World, a New Landscape.”

Although game playing still makes me nervous, I do find some things fascinating. Maybe like me, you used to say that maybe I’d game when the video matched closer to what I saw in my mind. And then came the Wachowski Brothers, Keanu Reeves, and “The Matrix,” and I found not only something that made online MMORPG and computer gaming more fascinating visually, but also emotional and spiritual. And cultural.

I’m not afraid to admit it. I always liked “Tron,” but, finally, online is cool Tron, on spiritual and emotional and visual steroids; girl steroids, boy steroids, elegance and power, ugly and vicious.

Here were full characters, both cryptic but with depth, in limitless variety.

That’s what I write. I take all my scimitar kings, and Polynesian healers, and all the others inside me and write them; for scripts, games, and more. I craft stories layer by layer, skill by skill, breath by breath; until I know that THIS particular character will say this and that, but not THAT stupid thing.

That this one has a limp, so running is limited.

That this one has a brilliant way with people, but a genetic flaw that makes a depth perception defect and a bright day’s reflection things that blind him.

Or, that this one has such depth that I hadn’t realized his high power for healing and talent for leaving out important details about himself, has hidden from me, his author and maker (but not creator, he did that himself), hidden the fact that he is more highly skilled and dangerous than I knew. And I REALLY KNOW my characters.

Are You Making New People, or Retooling Old Ones?

But, there it was, a surprise. I experienced that, of a character withholding from me until the nearly the end, while completing my first novel to publish; finding hidden and surprising depths, hidden and surprising connections; that my main character could come out from me, and yet withhold a major plot point, which changes in the mind the entire book from page one to that spot.

All that was kept from me.

It’s like finding out something about your sibling, whom you always shared a room with and pretty much everything else.

It’s like having kids; they’re part of you and you know them, and then one day, they surprise the H out of you. And you wonder where they got THAT from; not from you, not from your significant other, not the sitter, not anyone. It’s somehow an element of their own creation.

As making a character, an avatar can be.

Some of us keep full control, but, I’m sure, that many of us must find that our onscreen selves are expressing parts of us that seem our best, or worst; expressing a hidden part of us, or something WE always knew about ourselves, but no one else did, because some things are so secret or so much a part of our being, like our cells, that we can’t share, or just never ever considered it.

Or just assumed no one else would want to stare through a microscope and see a tiny us waving back from a glass slide.

“You Want to Show Me … What?”

“I’ll show you my avatar, if you’ll show me yours.”

And that is why I’ve taken another step closer to stepping through the looking glass into the world of pixels and distant strangers meeting on an electronic plain, so like what goes on, in the wild, infinite prairies and deep black of space, and horror-filled, primal forests, and endless days of lockers and mislaid class nightmares, and other bits in my mind, making us all like dreamers wide awake in dreamland, the oh so many dreamlands, dreaming together, where we are more ourselves than here.

On Executive Obama and Hip Hop

The old Gangsta and his old Wangsta is dead,
Or finally dying, quickly; because
The New Executive is it.
And the New Manager,
The New CEO,
The New CFO,
The New Owner;
The New Remolders and New Rebuilders,
Of Our New Future, of things yet manifested,
But growing in spirit's dream.

Copyright Neale Sourna 2008

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