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One of the biggest movie events over the past year or so was “The secret.” It’s basic message was that our thoughts create our reality on a day by day basis. Specifically, this message says that whatever images lives most predominately in our moment to moment consciousness is what does that creation.

For most people that’s where the creation process unknowingly breaks down, mostly because people’s thoughts are so unfocused. To assist with that dilemma, a number of tools were crafted to overcome that lack of focus. One of them is the “mind movie,” a unique tool created in Australia

The primary purpose of a mind movie is to create images that focus a persons thoughts on the images they want most in their future. David has just released his first mind movie, and he is so proud of the images it creates for him.

Initially, he posted it on YouTube.com, yet it seems like the easiest way to view it is on his MySpace.com page. The link for doing that is located at “http://www.myspace.com/daveo0099”. When you go there, look for the picture of “Wonder Woman” on the left-hand side of the page. That’s one of the many fabulous images in his movie.

If you watch his movie and it speaks to you, whether positive or negatively, please send him an email. You know how writers, and especially novelists, love the opportunity to talk back to their readers.

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On David O’Neal’s new web site, http://www.partnerwithanovelist.com/, he asserts that a number of notable historical figures practiced their day to day art only because of generous gifts from wealthy art patrons. While such knowledge is not commonly known. It nevertheless is an historical fact.

To better support his claim, he researched and wrote a 1,000 word article on the topic entitled, Notable historical Figures and Patronage. In it, he briefly details how da Vinci, Michelangelo, Shakespeare, Mozart, and Beethoven were affected by the patronage system of their day. Some thrived. Some did not.

O’Neal states that from the 14th through the 17th century artists quickly learned that their artistic career and their upward social mobility depended entirely upon their involvement in a growing network of patronage relationships.

The purpose of O’Neal’s “partner with a novelist” program is to prototype a model for how literary patronage might flourish to benefit authors in the Internet Age, and his merging of the two divergent concepts is somewhat unique.

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Writing fiction is about crafting a variety of characters and then choreographing them into an interesting story that surrounds them with all the trappings of the life they would have created for themselves.

To do that, I pull information from way too many sources to list here.

However, one of those sources comes from an unlikely place, yet the information is “right on” for providing the raw materials necessary to create complex, interesting, and even lovable characters.

Thayer White is a psychotherapist like few you’ve ever met.

To start with, he’s written all that uncomfortable stuff out for his readers on the Internet. It’s found throughout his website and especially in his online book entitled, “Be Your Own therapist.”

If you’ve ever wondered “what makes you tick” or why “so and so” did “whatever they did,” I’m betting you can find something there to ease and please your mind.

Oh, and this is not just good research material for writers, it’s equally interesting for their readers. I’m told that readers seek to better understand the varied complications found in the world around them. If writers find this highly detailed info about human nature to be useful, seems reasonable to me that readers would see much the same thing from their own unique perspective.

As a novelist, I believe better informed readers is a big plus for moving American Literature to places and in directions it’s never been. To me, that’s exciting.

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