I rather like my instructional page on writing effective dialogue. I created this new graphic for it.

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Birthright, Part 2 (#StarTrek #TNG Rewatch, Season 6, Episode 17) Worf sows disorder in a settlement where Klingons and Romulans live in peace

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Today’s 10 sq cm of retro #steampunk control panel. #blender3d #blender3dart

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Part of my daily routine is practicing German for about 15m per day. With no particular practical goal.

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Another 10 sq cm of #steampunk control panel. #blender3d #blender3dart #design #aesthetic

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Dax (#StarTrek #DS9 Rewatch, Season 1, Episode 7) Jadzia Dax faces the legal consequences of Curzon Dax’s actions

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Trainer and Sea Lion Tango: “He Had It Coming” (Cell Block Tango, from Chicago)

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Arsenic and Old Lace. I haven’t seen this show since I played the lead as a high school junior in the 1980s.

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Beautiful day for a walk.

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The Storyteller (#StarTrek #DS9 Rewatch, Season 1, Episode 14) A Bajoran village mystic names O’Brien his successor; Jake and Nog try to impress a teenaged faction leader

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