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21 Dec 10 Ideas for Personalized Gifting

Gifting is an age old process, but a gift always brings a smile on face of the recipient. Perhaps that’s why the gifting concept has evolved and has remained evergreen. Have you ever thought how to make your gifts memorable and eternal? Rather than gifting same traditional clothes, cutleries, jewelries, books, toys, flowers why not gift your beloved one something special and customized which will be different from others?

Here are few ideas about customizing gift items.

Customized coffee mug

You can customize a coffee mug as per the taste, preference, and personality of the recipient. If the recipient is quite close to you and you have shared special moments with him or her, you can put such photos on the coffee mug. Add a nice line to it or a poem. Further decorate the mug with designs like flower petals, leaves, stars and different shades of colors. Recipient would love to keep such mugs all his life. You can also make such mugs interactive. The mug may have your picture in grayscale, but will turn bright and colorful when hot drink is poured into it.

Customized bed spread

When you are in a loving relationship with someone special and close to your heart you can gift a bedspread with photographs of both of you, some love quotes, hearts floating on the bedspread. A nicely designed bedspread will make the recipient store it with great care and love, forever.

Customized desktop calendar

A desktop calendar not only reminds about date, but also beautifies our desk. If you can ideate a nice desktop calendar with personal pictures of beautiful moments and nice lines below it, it will not only beautify the room but also find a place in heart.

Customized dummy publication article

You may publish a dummy article exactly like newspaper or magazine article with you and your beloved one’s picture and a nice write up of your love story. Many designers make such dummy publication articles. It should look exactly like the original publication release. You can present the same to your beloved one on anniversary or Valentine’s Day. It’s ultimate romantic possession which will proudly display your love story.

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01 Nov 09 What Do You Do When You Are Bored of Writing

It is not uncommon for a writer to get bored of writing. Everyone gets bored at one time or another. And once you are bored, writing becomes a drag.

What do you do when writing becomes drag for you?

Do you continue to write as usual or do you do something else?

Believe it or not, despite how torturous writing become, many writers continue to write and what happens? They end up producing mediocre work. This is wrong. This pulls the motivation down. A writer should not continue when he or she is not feeling like writing.

Stop Writing! When writing seems like a drag. There are quite a few things that you can do when writing becomes drag for you, which I am listing below. These steps will not only relax your mind, but it will also infuse enthusiasm in you that will make writing once again a pleasant exercise.

Things to do when writing becomes drag

  • Take a walk in the woods.
  • Sit near a pond, lake or river and listen to the sound of bird chirping and watch the water forming shapes.
  • Listen to soulful music.
  • Watch a movie.
  • Read a book or a short story.
  • Recite a poem.
  • Dance
  • Go out and take a walk
  • See teenagers falling in love for the first time
  • Surf the internet, but do not go to the usual sites that you visit
  • Talk to an elderly person in your community and ask him about his life’s experience.
  • Visit an orphanage, talk to kids there and play with them.
  • Watch a game of sports.
  • Paint, if you like painting.
  • Observe the nature.
  • Lie on the ground and watch the empty sky. Focus on the bubble that forms in the sky (it is actually an illusion).
  • Relax
  • Above all, follow your heart

You should not limit yourself to doing these things. Do whatever you wish is good for you, apart from writing, and see how the experience enriches you.

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21 May 09 Elements of a Movie Review

Movie, novel, essay, poem, and drama are the pillars of literature. Hence, like any other art form, the more you know about the craft of movie making, the better your experience will be watching it. Hence, we write movie reviews. Writing a movie review can be challenging for even established writers because a movie review is not just about writing eloquently or critically about plots and sub-plots of a movie, or its characters. A movie review is much more than that. The purpose of a movie review is to inform readers about what a movie is about, how it is made and who all worked to make it. The goal of a movie reviewer should be to teach the audience as much about the movie, and the different techniques used in the movie as he could without letting out critical details of the movie.

If you are just starting out your journey of writing movie reviews then having an organized list of elements to look for while writing a movie review will be very much helpful. In this post, I am going to provide a list of elements that you should look for while writing review for a movie, but before everything else, watch the movie of which you are planning to write the review. Once, you are though with the movie and the popcorn, it is time to see which all elements you need to analyze the movie against. The elements of the movie review can be classified into three broad categories. One is plain informative like who is the director, when it was made, who are the actors etc., another is qualitative or descriptive, and the third one is technical aspects. Below is a complete list of elements, you need to keep handy while writing a review.

Informative

1.       Name of the movie

2.       Year of release

3.       Actors

4.       Director

5.       Certification

6.       Running time

7.       Genre

8.       Awards

Qualitative or descriptive

1.       Intended Target Audience

2.       Story line

3.       Sub- plots

4.       Treatment of the story

5.       Major characters

6.       Minor characters

7.       Structure of the movie

8.       Narrative technique used

9.       Sue of turns and twists

Technical aspect

1.       Lighting

2.       Music

3.       Cinematography

4.       Camera use

5.       Transitions and editing

6.       Mood

7.       speed

Warning: In essence, the movie review you have written is your opinion of the movie. Keep this in mind, and while writing a review, do not get tempted to reveal the complete story line. Your purpose is to give only the details that can help the readers of your review to form an opinion about the movie, not to retell the story of a movie.

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