A Few Of You Asked Me For Historical Fiction Recommendations, So Here They Finally Are! This Is One Of

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Cats Stealing Food in Paintings

Still Life with Cat (1705) by Desportes, It's no use crying over spilt milk (1880) by Frank Paton, Still Life of the Remnants of a Meal with a Lunging Cat (18th Century) by Alexandre-François Desportes, Fish Still Life with Two Cats (1781) by Martin Ferdinand Quadal, Still Life with a Cat and a Mackerel on a Table Top (18th Century) by Giovanni Rivalta, The Collared Thief (1860) by William James Webbe, Cat Stealing a String of Sausages (17th Century) by Abraham van Beyeren, Still Life with a Cat (1760) by Sebastiano Lazzari, Kitchen Still Life with Fish and Cat (ca. 1650) by Sebastian Stoskopff, An Oyster Supper (1882) by Horatio Henry Couldery, Still Life with an Ebony Chest (17th Century) by Frans Snyders, Still Life with a Cat (1724) by Alexandre-Francois Desportes, A Cat Attacking Dead Game (18th Century) by Alexandre-François Desportes, Still Life of Fresh-Water Fish with a Cat (1656) by Pieter Claesz, Still Life with Fruits and Ham with a Cat and a Parrot (18th Century) by Alexandre-Francois Desportes, A Cat Holding a Fish in Its Mouth (18th Century) by Sebastiano Lazzari, Still Life with a Cat and a Hare (18th Century) by Desportes, Still Life with Cat and Rayfish (1728) by Jean-Siméon Chardin, A Cat with Dead Game (1711) by Alexandre-Francois Desportes, Still Life with Cat and Fish (1728) by Jean Baptiste Siméon Chardin

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“Aw shit, I am a woman, friendless, hopeless!”

Henry VIII,  Act 3, Scene 1  

Shakespeare, but every instance of “alas” has been replaced with “aw shit”

 “Aw shit, poor Yorick!”

-Hamlet, Act 5 Scene 1

“Aw shit, that love, so gentle in his view,

Should be so tyrannous and rough in proof!“

-Romeo & Juliet, Act 1 Scene 1

“O, no! Aw shit, I rather hate myself

For hateful deeds committed by myself.”

-Richard III, Act 5 Scene 3

“Aw shit, poor country, almost afraid to know itself! It cannot be called our mother, but our grave.”

Macbeth, Act 4 Scene 3

Photographer’s Incredible 14-Year Quest to Document the World’s Oldest Trees

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My favorite products for PR

Tracking

Blendle Blendle is actually a tool designed to help newspapers generate more revenue through paid articles. But Blendle has an outstanding collection of print editions from the largest newspapers and magazines in Germany and it makes it super easy to search for keywords (e.g. FinTech) and find out how wrote an article in what magazine. Give it a few minutes and you have a powerful list of journalists to talk to in no time.

Alert.io Alert is my go-to tool for tracking things on the web. No matter if it’s topics, keywords, companies or competitors, Alert.io got you covered.

Project Management

Asana I have tried Asana a couple of times in the past, but was never really happy with it – until their redesign in October. Now I’m transitioning all my personal and work related projects and tasks from Todoist, which I’m still very fond of.

Todoist If you are looking for a very reliable, fast and minimalistic ToDo app, then Todoist would be my personal recommendation. I’ve been happily paying for a pro account for the last two years and organized all of my personal and most of my work related things in it. Now, that I’m working in a bigger team at Ballou PR, I transitioned to Asana, to keep everyone on the same page.

Writing

Ulysses III Ulysses is my favorite writing app by far. It’s really beautiful, fast and has many handy features including markdown support and a powerful export feature. As a hobby writer (who writes far too little), this is definitely my biggest discovery over the last five

Desk PM I came across this little gem just a few days ago and what I love the most about it, is the instant publishing feature for platforms like Tumblr, Blogger, Wordpress, Squarespace, Medium and a few others. Even though it lacks a few features that would be nice to have and has a few bugs, I was happy to pay the 19,99€ for the full version for one simple reason: I didn’t have to copy and paste written articles to the website. That was the single biggest issue that I had with publishing articles online.

Other stuff

Producthunt Whenever I can’t remember the name of an app that I wanted to try, I head over to Producthunt instead of searching for it on Google. It’s easily the best resource on the web to find apps and services that are useful.

The Shapes of Stories, Kurt Vonnegut’s theories about archetypal stories.

This twitter is a gift. (x)

Step 1: Where Do They Come From?

Find a general biome that fits what you envision for this culture. If appropriate, make up your own. You want to focus on how plentiful the water is and where it is, what food sources there are, and what natural resources (wood, iron, reeds, etc.) are available. You’ll also want to look into natural structures like caves or cliffs, and common weather phenomenon like hurricanes or droughts.

If you’re writing a premodern culture with few outside influences, you could stop here, since location pretty much gives you everything you could want. The local vegetation and weather patterns will dictate how they build houses. The natural phenomenon will be explained by religion. The availability of water and food/arable soil/animals that could be domesticated will determine if they are nomadic or not. Their natural resources will determine how quickly technology progresses.

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