What are good ways to write great songs?
1. Find a quiet spot where noone can hear you scream.2. Make strange noises. Act goofy. Laugh if you want to.3. Make yourself comfortable, breathe.4. Write. Start writing on a blank sheet of paper, or on the computer. Write down everything that comes to mind. Random words, feelings, sounds, whatever. Write fast, and DO NOT JUDGE. The words can be meaningless and have no structure. This should take five minutes or less. If youre not filling an entire sheet in five minutes, write bigger letters. Occupy the space.5. Breathe6. Look at the words you wrote. Dont read too much, just look intensely.7. Close our eyes, and picture the artist you're writing for (or yourself) walking out on the stage- standing in front of the microphone, ready to perform his/her latest hit single. The band begins to play, the person begins to sing... 8. Listen or look for a title, topic, a metaphor, a sentence, a mood or feeling. Embrace it mentally. Take mental note of melodies and/or chords. 9. While the artist is "performing" - imagine changing to watching the music video for the song. Whats happening?10. Continue visualizing until you have a concept or framework for a song.DO not stop visualizing until you have a solid idea, don't stop at first thought.11. Quickly write down everything you can about what you just experienced, in a similar way you did in the beginning. DO NOT stop to judge what you are writing.12. Take a short break. 13. Read your notes, write the song. DO NOT stop to judge your work until you have at least two verses and a chorus.
What are some slang terms used among police officers?
The most derogatory terms for the bad guys and citizens who are just pains in the rectum:A.H. = Adam Henry (A-dam H-enry) If you don’t get it…..sometimes you will hear it as “Jack Hole”…..now what starts with an “A” that ends with HOLE ?RICHARD CRANIUM= What starts with a “D” and is a nickname for Richard ? What is the non-medical layman’s term for the Cranium ? Do these clues HEAD you in the right direction ?
Poets, what is your biggest challenge in writing right now?
My mother went in for a routine surgery and was diagnosed with (what we now know to be) stage 4 Appendicial Cancer. Her specific kind of ap cancer is rare enough that only 150 people in the US a year will be diagnosed with it. It was a huge shock.It’s been a few months but I still… I can’t find words. Not about my life, not about her life, not about anything. If I try to tackle a totally unrelated subject, I somehow tilt it into a different realm. Poems that start out sunny and light are slowly mired down in this uneasy darkness that sucks then down and turns them into something else. Poems that are of a darker nature are also corrupted and get off-kilter and I don’t know how to pull them back.If I was better at short form poetry, if I’d ever been able to conquer telling my entire story in such a short space, it would be the time to make use of that. But in my long form writing in general I’m a descriptive writer. My poetry is rarely under four quatrains in length. I prefer a format like a sonnet, but with an added quatrain. I establish an idea, provide a turn, how it changes things, and settle them. Then I add a finishing couplet that either drives home the message or unravels what you thought you learned. While I can work in shorter formats, I don’t love them and feel the constraint. It’s just not my bag.Once I try to pull on the reins and get back on track, I often find the wording to be arch and unnatural or the timing to be ever so slightly off. It’s consistently frustrating.So right now I’m just taking some time to work on my long form work, helping others with beta reading and editing as I can. I usually try to work past whatever blocks I have, but this is… different. Hopefully this kind of situation will only happen a few times in my life. So I’m going to try to show myself more leeway and kindness than I would, perhaps, normally.
What are some essay hacks (e.g. increasing the font size of periods so that the essay looks longer or adding nonsense words in white font so as to increase the word count)?
like when you increase the font size of periods so that the essay looks longer or adding nonsense words in white font so as to increase the word count.Please never use these silly tricks. For one, professors see right through them.If you get caught using tricks such as “adding nonsense words in white font”, you can even get your essay failed (because you failed to comply with the minimum word count and attempted to deceive your professor).You’ll also get a bad reputation among your professors. You’ll suffer the consequences of this whenever you need their help (e.g. personal recommendations)Hacking the essay length is not worth it. Professors do not choose essay requirements randomly - if you struggle to satisfy the word count requirement, that’s a huge red flag that you didn’t write enough content for a passable essay (notice I said passable, not good).The best solution is thus to focus your efforts on doing more research, in order to generate the amount of content needed to satisfy the essay length requirements.If for some reason or another you’re not keen on doing more research, try making all your sentences longer, while still keeping their meaning. I do not recommend this because you still end up with the same amount of factual content in your essay (i.e. probably not enough to pass).But if you really don’t have time to do any more research, it can’t hurt trying.The best hack to make an essay look longer is to actually make it longer.
When I speak English, I always translate it from Hindi. How do I change it?
Once my Uncle had sent a book for publishing to a reputed publishing house - I think Penguin or some other hotshot. They replied saying, "Mr. Tare, we loved everything about your book, but we can't publish it because it seems to be translated from Marathi".I was dumbstruck when I heard this. But then my Uncle said, "I was happy. I am proud that there is some Marathi touch in my English. Language is not the prerogative of its original speakers alone. It is dynamic and constantly evolves. There are many, many phrases and proverbs which have been incorporated from other languages in English. And if language doesn't evolve like this, it is sure to die some day".That was a refreshing perspective!After that little piece of sermonisation, I would suggest not to worry too much about it. Initially it is okay to translate. Start reading books and conversing in English. That fluency would come. Use Google to find words in English for Hindi words.I hope it helps. It is helpful na? :P
My laptop turns on but the screen is black. What do I do to fix it?
Other answers have jumped to a hardware fault. Perhaps not incorrectly, sure. But I'd first make sure we're not dealing with a software issue, or any other "have you tried turning it off and back on again?" sort of things.First, and foremost, does your laptop have a "Display Off" button? I have a Sony Vaio which has one of these. It's a flush bezel button near the clamshell hinge. I have absolutely no fucking clue why it's there. But it is. The only thing I can think of is it's a "privacy" button...for when you can't quite hit the (x) close button on the browser window when your spouse walks in on you ogling (.)'s.Since you didn't post a picture I will assume that you mean the screen is entirely black. No faint glow, no nothing? In other words, it doesn't look even remotely like this [note the blinking cursor]:Have you plugged anything new into your laptop recently? A new USB device? A new external drive? Do you have a docking station? If you have a docking station, does it behave differently if on or off of it?Have you verified that your battery is charged, and that even if not, your power supply is providing proper charging to the battery when it's plugged in? My laptop has a little lightning-bolt LED that indicates the power supply is properly plugged in. Sometimes those stupid connectors can become loose -- or worse, crimped [kids knocking the thing about, etc.] -- so that they don't make a proper connection. I can't tell you how many times I've sat down with my laptop that had been "plugged in" for hours only to hit the power button, see it appear to go through its start-up groans, only to have it fizzle-out and not work shortly after.Do you have a recovery disc for the OS you have installed? What happens if you turn the power on with that in the laptop?Do you have a USB memory stick? If so, there are a bunch of different things to try here Boot and run Linux from a USB flash memory stick, even booting DOS from it.