What Projects is Will Working on?

I just recently visited this wonderful castle in Japan and I have an article about it and a whole lot of pictures of the inside and outside. It is, as many Japanese Castles, very similar, yet very different from its European Counterparts. Shuri Castle

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I received a picture from an accomplished terrarium maker. The terrarium struck me in two different ways. First off it is so very simple (four plants all of the same kind) and secondly it struck me as being a legitimate work of art. I have some very strong thoughts about making terrariums and raising the […]

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Walking through a nearby area I heard the thrumming of a woodpecker. Tracking it down was elusive and I needed more than one perspective to find it. This started me thinking about my quest for the meaning of life. Anyway I posted a short essay about it, and a short video with that elusive little […]

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A Big Battle is often at the heart of an epic fantasy novel and sometimes it is the climax where everything is completed or resolved for good or bad. I have written an extensive article that will give you good advice on writing a big battle, handle the complexity and figure out the best points […]

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I have been keeping a personal website for three years now and each year has a different visual metaphor. I have finally started the design and writing for 2009. You can see it here: Will Kalif 2009 This writing is more personal in nature.

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I posted a new post to my search for the meaning of life blog. It revolves around a cat scan I had of my brain a few weeks ago. Ever wonder what this thing is all about and what’s really in there? The Search for the Meaning of life

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If you have taken a buzz by willkalif.com you probably noticed a big change. This is something that I do every year. I start out with a fresh screen. A lot of people really enjoyed the pastiche of pictures and essays that I wrote last year and a lot of people also enjoyed the growing plant […]

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If you are interested in taking a peek into Will’s life I have been writing short essays for two years now and they are all based on my peculiar life. The newest additions are the picture of the golden ring which is about a dream I had and the golden tree which is about some […]

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I have written and posted two new articles to the Telescope Nerd website. They are both about early telescopes. The first article is about the famous newton telescope which was one of the first practical reflector telescopes and the second article is about a lesser know telescope maker and astronomer named Christiaan Huygens. He advanced […]

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This is a new article I have written and it focuses on how to make good maps to go along with your fantasy writing. If you are writing a fantasy novel you no doubt are thinking about adding a map. This article gives you some good tips and guiidelines for making a map that helps […]

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