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Why I Like Stories About the Old West

When I was a young boy, I enjoyed playing Cowboys and Indians. In the late 40s and early 50s, west Texas was a wonderful place to act out my childhood imagination. Roy Rogers, Gene Autry, Hopalong Cassidy, and The Lone Ranger were my favorites. I wore the toy guns and holsters, chaps, and boots to get the feeling of being a real cowboy. I played all day long, pretending to shoot the bad guys and to fight the Indians. We would tie up our captives and leave them for a while to think about their crime, but somehow they always managed to escape.

From my youth to this day when I am traveling, I continue to think about what life must have been like in the old days of the west. In my mind, I see Indians crossing the vast landscape or sitting on their horses atop a nearby mountain overlooking the vast expanse below. I see wagon trains slowly rolling across the plains on their way to a new life. I think of the many hardships they must have faced in order to make a better life, and I think of the many that never made it to their destination because of accident, disease, and ambush by Indians and devious white men. It amazes me to think of the millions of buffalo that roamed the vast western plains then. A small herd of buffalo roams near my home and images of the Old West seem so real. That is, until the camel appears. It is a strange sight to see this long-legged dromedary mixed in with the buffalo.

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Improve Text Writing, Part 1

Writing TextIf you are currently active in activities related to film, novel, book or theater, the school play scenarios (scenarist) need to be part of the skill. The scenario is a skill; it does not require special talent innate from birth. For that, whoever you are, all have equal opportunities to learn and make it:

Here, presented a few steps, or how you can do to make the school play scenarios (scenarist). The steps are as follows:

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Tips of Writing Short Stories

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Any writing must have messages or implied meanings. A theme is just like a string connecting the beginning and end of story on which you rely plot, characters, setting etc. When you write, be sure that every word is related to this theme.

When writing a short story, our attention might be fastened to one side only, such as creating characterization, depicting the available things, dialogue or whatever. That is why, we have to remember that flowery words can bury the core of the story itself.

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