Questions

Other than, Twilight, Warriors, Harry Potter or The Hunger Games.
- AnimeGirl4

I’m looking a science fiction book to read but I don’t really like sci-fi books about aliens, does anyone have any suggestions?
Some science fiction books I have read recently that I liked were 1984, The Hunger Games, and Enders Game which admittedly does have a few aliens.
- grace

Short of flying to Africa and scouring the Kalahari Desert for a Hoodia Gordonii plant, it’s hard to find 100% pure Hoodia on the market just yet. However some forms, that the plant is sold in, are more potent than others.

The biggest reason that you want to use the most effective form of Hoodia is to ensure that your appetite is supressed successfully. Most people fail to loose weight because they give in to the hunger and cravings. If you manage to use a potent form of Hoodia, you could well be on your way to loosing weight successfully because you will not feel hungry all the time.

Hoodia products come in many forms in the market place. The most common is the capsule, which when taken orally, is broken down in the body to absorb the ingredients. Capsules also give the most bang for the buck.

Liquid Hoodia supplements work quickly because the body has less work to do in order to get the Hoodia into your system. This might be the preferred option to capsules although Hoodia does not have to be in liquid form for it to be effective. The capsules work just fine. Hoodia Elixir comes in different potency levels, too, just like capsules.

You want to compare the products on the market to find a Hoodia supplement that delivers the highest level of Hoodia, and not a tiny percentage just so the manufacturers can “claim” it’s a Hoodia product.

The more potent the product is when it comes to evaluating its Hoodia levels, the more you’re going to pay. Consumers are willing to pay a high price for the purest form of Hoodia because of its ability to suppress your appetite and increase energy levels unlike any other natural supplement.

Hoodia can also elevate a persons mood and make them feel much better within themselves. The feeling can be similar to the feeling that one gets after exercise.

Some companies now have their own Hoodia farms located in South Africa so that they can create and manufacture dietary supplements to be sold on the global market. This alone shows how much the producers believe in their product. Other companies have to mix the doses of Hoodia they get with other fillers because they don’t have access to a Hoodia growing facility. They are the producers that you should try and avoid.

Just because you invest in a supplement that’s not 100% Hoodia in its purest form doesn’t mean you won’t lose weight. But try to get a supplement that has the maximum amount of Hoodia in it and your weight loss results will be maximized while your side effects are minimized. To further benefit your weight loss, you should follow a good exercise plan. The easiest way to do this would be to go to your local gym and ask one of the fitness instructors to make you a custom plan. If you follow the plan and have a good diet incorporating Hoodia, you should have no problems loosing weight.


- Eric James

You’ve read through what you’ve written—your first few scenes, your first chapter, your completed novel—and you’ve discovered that your words don’t move you. They don’t make you want to keep reading. They don’t make you laugh or cry. If writing is bleeding on the page, well, you might have scratched yourself, but you don’t need a transfusion. And you don’t know what went wrong.

When you started writing, did you know what story you were telling? This is trickier than it sounds. You might have known your characters, you might have known your world, and you might have known your plot…but even with this much planning done, it’s entirely possible that you had not yet located your deep layer, the heart of your story, the engine that drove you to write it in the first place.

Odds are very good you did not know your theme.

Your theme is nothing more and nothing less than the heart of a novel. It is not a grade-school exercise in tedium, that single droning sentence you wrote that told your reader what you were going to tell him. In a novel, your theme is a living, vibrant, critical thing. It is your particular passion in this particular novel summed up in a handful of words. It is what you need to say.

Need. That’s the critical thing in a theme. If you’re writing novels, if you are doing something this complex and challenging, you’re doing it because something in you needs to write. You have something to express, some particular point of view, some set of life experiences, some driven hunger that you must put down on paper. You NEED. And you need to say what you need.

Maybe it is: In spite of having survived heartbreak, I believe in true love. Or: I believe good can triumph over greater evil. Or: If I were King of Everything, this is the way the world would be.

Your plot is the map of your story. Your theme is the map of your soul, and it is where your characters will find their direction, their flaws, their hungers, and their own passions. They only breathe with your breath, and they only bleed with your blood. Your plot may be Boy Meets Girl, Boy Loses Girl, Boy Gets Girl, but your theme—your take on the world based on your life, your own hopes and aspirations, your own beliefs—might be Chubby Bald Guy Deserves the Love of a Wonderful Woman.

You have themes in you. You’ve built them from love and courage, but you’ve built them from anger and fear, too. You live with them every day, when you’re muttering that argument you had with your spouse or colleague, designing better comebacks; when you’re watching the boss cheat someone and you’re getting furious about it; when you’re watching a disaster and telling yourself, Someone could have prevented that; when you’re hearing the latest political garbage and thinking, This is not the way the world should be.

I could do this better. I WOULD do this better.

And so you write.

You have rich, powerful, compelling, passionate themes boiling inside you. You have something worth saying. Now you just need to know how to figure out what it is, and how to get it on the page.

In Part II: How To Find Your Novel’s Pulse, you’ll learn how to identify your themes, and figure out which are worth pursuing.


- Holly Lisle