Sara Eie DeSter

Well my little gumdrops,  it's time to grab your salt and holy water because its time for Supernatural Sa turdays!! And I thought we should kick off the first Supernatural Saturday with a very special Arch-angel. No not Lucifer..............  I'll give you a hint, he has golden wings,loves sweets, and looks like a Corgi. That's right its  the trickster himself, Gabe!!!! And yes we all love this prank playing angel, but we all have to remember the actor playing the angel.  Richard Speight Jr. was born in Nashville, Tennessee. He attended Montgomery Bell Academy and the University of Southern California's School of Theater, where he graduated cum laude. He began his acting career in the late 1980s, appearing in television movies like Love Leads the Way: A True Story, and Goodbye, Miss 4th of July.  In my opinion, Richard Speight Jr gave Gabriel so much life and energy to the role that gave the show some light in the darkened episodes. ...

Hello Everybody!!!!         So you guys voted and now we are going to talk about the new card game Star Wars destiny!!!!  Play out your own epic, saga-spanning, “what if” battles in Star Wars™: Destiny, a collectible dice and card game for two players!         In every game of Star Wars: Destiny, you’ll gather your small team of iconic characters and battle to defeat your foes, using your dice and the cards in your deck. The last player with characters left standing wins the game, but to successfully outmaneuver your opponent, you’ll need to carefully consider your options and enhance your deck with new dice and cards. If you ever wondered who would win a duel between two teams of heroes and villains from the Star Wars universe, there’s no better way to find out than with Star Wars: Destiny.       Each character in Star Wars: Destiny comes with a corresponding premium die. These large, full-color dice are ...

LET YOUR INNER FANGIRL (OR BOY) OUT!! YOU GUYS HAVE VOTED ON IF WE WOULD TALK ABOUT SPIDER-MAN HOMECOMING OR STAR WARS DESTINY AND THE VOTES ARE IN!!!  I AM HAVING A Q&A ALL DAY TODAY SO PLEASE ASK ANY QUESTION ABOUT............ STAR WARS DESTINY!!!!!   SO PLEASE ASK ANY QUESTION ABOUT THE STAR WARS UNIVERSE FROM MOVIES TO TV  SHOWS TO ACTORS AND I WILL ANSWER ALL YOUR QUESTIONS!! ALSO KEEP A LOOK OUT FOR MY BLOG ON THE STAR WARS DESTINY GAME WHICH WILL BE OUT LATER TODAY!! AND REMEMBER: MAY THE FORCE BE WITH YOU!!!  

Welcome to Tactical Games Thursdays!!!! Today is dedicated to video games and board games!! Today's video game is............ Undertale is a traditional Role-playing game with one very big exception: Where most developers incorporate violence into game play, creator Toby Fox tries to work around it. Undertale takes place in a world where humans and monsters ONCE coexisted peacefully. After war tore the two races apart, the monsters were sealed underground; the game begins shortly after a child tumbles through a great hole and into a monster-filled domain. Fox set out to make a title that relies on interaction and choice to tell a story. Now on Kick starter, Undertale is billed as a game "where no one has to get hurt." The ability to take out enemies with an effortless click still exists but so do alternate OPTIONS. Want to befriend a boss you've encountered? Try talking to him. Instead of attacking or fleeing, select the game's ...

Welcome to Wicked Wednesday!!!  Wednesdays are dedicated to challenges and pranks.  And what better way to start off Wicked Wednesday is with a challenge!!!!  And not just any challenge but the Disney Song Challenge!  This is a perfect challenge for all ages and it is perfect for parties!  There is no limit to the amount of players you can have, but there are some things you will need:  list of Disney movies, buzzers for everyone (can be weird noises you make with your mouth),  and a great space to jump and get into the music. Now here are the rules: Separate the group into teams (no more then four teams) Once every has there buzzers, choose one person to be the vault.  The vault will be in charge of the list of Disney movies during the game.  Once the vault is chosen,  sit them behind the teams so there is no cheating.  Pick one person from each team to step forward to start the game. Now the vault starts the game by count...

WOOKIEE COOKIES 🍪 🍪🍪🍪🍪🍪 Ingredients : 6 ounces unsalted butter, fluid and warm—roughly 105°F (1 1/2 sticks; 170g) 1 tablespoon (15mL) vanilla extract 1 large egg, cold (about 50g) 7 ounces light brown sugar (3/4 cup, gently packed; 200g) 7 ounces white sugar (1 cup; 200g) 2 teaspoons Diamond Crystal kosher salt; half as much by volume if using table salt (7g of either kosher or table salt by weight) 1 teaspoon (3g) ground cinnamon  1/2 teaspoon (3g) baking soda  7 ounces old-fashioned rolled oats—not quick-cooking or instant (2 cups; 200g) 6 ounces all-purpose flour, not unbleached (1 1/4 cups; 170g ) 7 ounces chocolate chips (milk and white) and chopped walnuts    2 ounces of dark chocolate ( melted) Instructions : 1. Adjust oven rack to middle position,  preheat to 350°F, and line 2 aluminum  baking sheets with parchment (not wax  paper). 2. Combine butter, vanilla, egg, brown sugar, white sugar, kosher salt, cin...

Here are some  Reader Suggested Activities: Year 2072 : Choose a year in the future and have students write in detail about the world and what they or their characters will be doing in it. Will the story be distopian? Will the future be good or a dark scary place? Word Bag : Each group receives one brown bag containing 10 or more words. Students work together to categorize the words or create an interesting sentence. Have any other suggested activities??? Comment down bellow⬇⬇⬇⬇⬇⬇⬇ 

Here are some other activities that can help with your writing process: Word String Good diction can make the difference between an ordinary piece of writing and a spectacular one. This exercise is designed to have individuals notice the language used in a piece of writing and encourages them to expand their own repertoires. Distribute a short story to everyone in the group and have them read it. Ask them to make an A-Z list of appealing words from the story, one word for each letter of the alphabet. When everyone has finished, suggest a starting word, and have someone choose a word from his or her list that begins with the final letter of your original word. Have each person in turn add a word that begins with the final letter of the word that came before it. Alternatively, have them create a piece of flash fiction one word at a time, with each student contributing where possible. Alphabetical Sentence To spark new and unusual ideas, have students work alone or in small...

Don't know where your character should live?  Here are some way to find out: Everything but the Eyes Many of us are visually oriented. We forget that others may respond equally well to a sense of smell or hearing. Ask writers to describe a place of importance to them using sensory details of taste, smell, hearing or touch. Anything except the visual. Photo Shuffle This exercise encourages vivid description and also illustrates how perception will vary from person to person. Have each member in the class or workshop bring in a photograph or image, along with a short written passage describing what the image signifies to the individual. Collect the images, shuffle them and pass them out, so that no one has the image with which he or she arrived. Now have each person write a passage that describes the subject or event shown in the photo and what it signifies. Then have each individual read his work aloud. Following this, ask the owner of the image explain what the phot...

Want more drama??? here is the most  dramatic  activity: Show and Tell Learning to "show" rather than "tell" is an important writing skill, but showing is not always appropriate, and there is also a place for narrative summary, particularly between active scenes. Discuss the appropriate use of dramatization and narrative summary, and provide students with an example of each. Then present individuals or small groups with a statement that inappropriately "tells," such as "Jane was angry with her father." Have them change the telling into active showing by writing a passage that first dramatizes the statement. Then have them summarize the same passage in vivid and appropriate detail. When everyone has finished, have each individual or a member from each group read the passages aloud to the entire class or workshop. 

I hate forgetting passwords!!!!!! After constructing an elaborate password for an hour, writing it on three different pieces of paper, and about 50 pictures on your phone, you still manage to forget your password!!  How the hell can that be, we basically documented its entire existence since you made it.  And even if you didn't forget it the website, that you are trying to log on to, says that its wrong!!!!! what the Chuck!  And it doesn't matter if you remember it or not because in a month you have to recreate it and you can't use one that you have used before!  Its like they are trying to torture us!  Why do passwords have to be so hard!!!  Chuck I hate passwords. If you have any similar password troubles comment below↓↓↓↓↓↓↓  

Have a character with no drive?  Here are  some ideas for developing characters:   Know Your Characters . This exercise may be used in pairs or small groups and is designed to test how well each writer knows his or her characters. Have a writer ask the person next to him a question about his or her protagonist. This individual will answer the question and then ask a question of another person, who will answer and ask a question of someone else. During this creative writing activity, encourage group members to ask questions that reveal character, rather than only questions about appearance. For example, someone might ask "How does your character express anger?" or "Has your character ever shoplifted?" The answers may be kept short or, if you have time, answers may explain the "why" of the response, such as "My character suppresses his anger because when he was a teenager, in a fit of rage, he slammed the car door as hard as he could ...

Don't know what your characters should say?  Her are some ways to help your characters to speak: Persuasive Dialogue . Dialogue needs some form of tension or suspense to hold reader interest. Sometimes suspense is created intrinscially, as when readers know more than the character, and sometimes it is created extrinsically, through character conflict. Imagine two characters. One wants to do something and the other does not. Or one wants something the other has. Write a dialogue between these two characters, where one character is determined not to give in to the other, to create extrinsic tension. Argumentative Dialogue . Dialogue simulates real conversation, it is not an exact copy. Dialogue must be pared back to remove redundancies, mistakes, and filler words. To illustrate this, pair individuals off and provide each pair with a subject of debate. Whichever side one's character will take, the other's must take the opposing view. Have each pair politely and resp...

Struggling with creative juices for short stories?  Here are some workshops to help: Color Coded . Ask students to write a short story that begins with the word "blue," and in which the first word of every paragraph is a color. Use the "color word" only once in each paragraph, but suggest the colar in as many ways as possible. For example: The world had turned grey. Nothing but mud and asphalt surrounded the unpainted house, little more than a box made of concrete blocks. Charlie, dressed in faded work pants, rubber boots, and a thick wool sweater, steadied himself with a hand on the top rail of a weathered cedar fence. Behind him, nothing but ash-coloured sky, bare trees, and plumes of smoke belching from the factory in the distance. A lone sparrow rested on a branch, one beady eye watching. Turn a poem into a short story . A poem uses tight language to convey emotional or intellectual ideas in an imaginative and new way. A single poem can provide a...

Hello everyone my name is Sara Eie DeSter and this is Starkid Sunday's.   Where we talk about all things Starkid! We will break down everything from the musicals to the shorts to the songs and back to the actors themselves.  So to start the amazing day I was thinking about going with the first musical they have ever done, Me and My Dick.  Now I know what you are going to say, that title is a little bit vulgar but trust me it's more subtle than you think.  MAMD is about a kid named Joey who has not lost his virginity yet.  And in his mind being a senior who still has his VCard is embarrassing.  But during the play he realizes that loving someone for who they are is what love really is and he windup falling in love with someone he least expected.  But of course it's not Starkid without the crude humor!  With an unforgettable cast and amazing music, the Starkid production is a must see for all fan and newcomers.  So I guess You're finally re...

We all die.  The goal isn't to live forever, the goal is to create something that will - Anonymous

                   5:20 AM reads the clock on the side table that sat next to a plaid couch.  Little ringlets of smoke floated to the ceiling as the man sitting on the couch continued to make more with his cigarette.  Boredom.  All he wants is for time to stop.  He wants to sit and relax with the woman he loves watching movies, talking, laughing, and holding her.  Instead he is watching the minutes tic by without a care. Tic.  He takes the drag of his cigarette and exhales another ringlet of smoke.  As this one rose to the ceiling, it took the disguise of a halo hovering his head before completely disappearing.  Tic.  He watches the last bit of ash fall from the cigarette and onto his suit.  He sat there for a minute then brushed the ash off then stood up.  As he stood, he stretched to get all the kinks out and then he straitened his suit.  Tic.  He looked to th...