Incentives

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Battle Royale, book, books, fiction, hunger games, If I Stay, Lord of the Rings, LOTR, quotes

“Guilt and bribery are the glue that have held parents and teenagers together for generations. Don’t fight tradition.”

–If I Stay (Movie)

If you’re a frequent reader, you know of my vendetta against passive characters. Things just happen to them, they aren’t driven to act.  It’s a little ironic that I work in marketing for an incentive card company. We research what motivates employees to be more productive and how to incent consumers to perform an action. Maybe that has bled into my writing and reading because I love paying attention to the different incentives used to motivate characters.

In Battle Royale, the threat of death motivates students to kill one another, similar to The Hunger Games. Fear can be a strong motivator and so can love. In If I Stay, Mia has several reasons to stop fighting and pass into the afterlife. Her body is in shambles after a car accident that killed both her parents. If her younger brother hadn’t survived, the book would have been over faster than if Elrond just tackled Isildur.

After hearing this quote, I tried to think of characters motivated by guilt or bribery. Somehow, I’m drawing a blank. Help me out by leaving a comment.

-Eliabeth

__funny writing memes

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big bang theory, books, fictional boys, funny, humor, humour, hunger games, lmao, lol, meme, rofl, stories, writing

I found these memes to brighten your days with some humour. Enjoy! 😀

Picture it & Write

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book, books, gambling, hunger games, luck, photography, poetry, The Hunger Games, writing

Welcome to the Picture it & Write creative writing exercise. I invite people to join in, comment with your paragraph of fiction to accompany the image. It doesn’t have to follow my story or reflect the same themes. It can be a poem or in a different language (please provide a translation). Anyone who wants to join in, is welcome. This photograph will be reblogged under Ermisenda on tumblr and added to the Picture it & Write gallery on Facebook and Pinterest.

Please continue to write however you’re inspired, but add a tag to the beginning of your post if there’s mature content in order to keep Picture it & Write an engaging event for all of our followers.

I’m very sorry but in order to continue to help Ermisenda add new and engaging content consistently, I may be unable to reply to every contribution. This has become so popular that I’m just unable to keep up. Thank you for understanding.

Photo by Benoit Courti; (original image)

May the odds be ever in your favor. Is anything in The Hunger Games really left up to chance? That contestant is too far away from the others, let’s drive her back away from the edge. That contestant has had it too easy, time to trigger something. What will make the best story? What will keep the people in the capitol entertained? What will get the money flowing in? Does it ever fall to the roll of the dice?

–Eliabeth Hawthorne

Everyone is welcome to use the button, just link them back to the Picture it & Write category or Ermiliablog!  Share your love for Picture it & write on your blog with the image below. Be proud, and stylish  !

Are You Team Katniss?

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book, books, Catching Fire, dystopian, fiction, hunger games, science fiction, Team Katniss, Team Peeta

I’m embarrassed to admit that when the whole “Team Gale” “Team Peeta” thing happened, I was Team Peeta because I didn’t come up with this answer. Now that I’m reading Catching Fire, I’m noticing the love-triangle drama that wasn’t in (or wasn’t as prevalent at least) in book 1. I can’t discus it further without spoilers I’m afraid so, minor spoilers follow.

__may the oreos be forever in your favor

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books, cooking, food, funny, hunger games, oreos

 

 

Just in case your oreo-life is too boring. Eat a fight-for-your-life oreo today! 😀 Not only is it talented work but it also looks so very delicious… nomnomnom.

– Ermisenda Alvarez

__book vending machine

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art, book, business, creative, crime, harlan coben, hunger games, idea, life, machine, reading, technology, tom clancy, vending, writing

Is this bookstore of the future? A very cool idea although I wonder how popular it will become.

– Ermisenda Alvarez

__book fan merchandise: underwear?

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books, buy, clothes, deathly hallows, fan, fashion, Harry Potter, hunger games, jewellery, Lord of the Rings, magic, pendant, photography, shopping, underwear, writing

Have you ever bought merchandise from one of your favourite books? I have a pack of Harry Potter-Themed cards and always seem to fall in love with Harry Potter style jewellery such as the Gryffindor House Points necklace to the right or the Deathly Hallows pendant below. Have you ever indulged in fan merchandise? Hunger Games bottle cap clip? Lord of the Rings underwear? 😉 Share your fan goods that you have bought or are on your wishlist here today!

– Ermisenda Alvarez

__the difference between Harry Potter and the Hunger Games fans

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books, fans, fantasy, funny, halfblood camp, Harry Potter, hogwarts, hunger games, i want to go to hogwarts, inspiration, joke, joy, life, narnia, percy jackson, quote, reading, writing, YA

I found this on my Tumblr dashboard. It was too funny not to share with us fellow readers and writers! I’m guilty of wishing to want to go to Hogwarts, constantly. But I don’t recall ever wishing to be in the Hunger Games… go figure. 😛

– Ermisenda Alvarez