Curie Author Showcase (January 15, 2019)

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Featured Author: @lashotta
Rome - LOVE at first sight

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Rome is magnificent, and @lashotta just proven that phrase is completely true just by showing us these stunning shots and breathtaking places from this city full of history, and, both ancient and modern architecture.

As he has stated, Rome is a place you can love at first sight cause it is just so easy to get wonderstruck by its magnanimous infrastructure, history, diverse attractions, and culture. They used to say that "all the paths were meant to lead to Rome", and it looks like this cannot be truer. Rome is such an eclectic blend of all these ancient cultures with modern touches that make it even more complex as a city; some people even say that you can travel like 10 times to Rome without even getting bored of it, @lashotta's posts just showed us some of the reasons why most people just can't get enough of Rome.

Rome is full of diversity and attractions that might even make you think that you can't really enjoy them all and truly discover all its nooks and hidden gems entirely just in one lifetime. These places that @lashotta has shown are just amazing, he knew how to capture their beauty with such expertise, and, they all just reaffirm this general view most people have when it comes to Rome.

Watch all these stunning photos of the magnificent Rome.

Featured Author: @divecrewcanada
My Roleplaying Game Table: 200 hours later... When failure happens...

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You can learn a lot from failures, this involves taking a moment to reflect once you have realized what was your mistake. This is how @divecrewcanada explains to us, recounting his experience from years ago. He set out to build a building at the scale of a chair with materials that can be bought in a store.

It was an incredible project for a role-playing board game. Although it has not been carried out at all, it is about the development of an imaginative effort that deserves to be recognized.

RPG is such a conspicuous genre, there have been many games of this genre that have set a high bar, so it is not easy at all to carry out a project like this one. But if you never try, you'll never know, right? That's just one of the many things we can learn from @divecrewcanada's experience as a creative himself. But what we really can see so crystal clear is that he is such a creative person that could really develop an excellent game in the near future.

Read this thoughtful experience and learn one or two things from @divecrewcanada's creative ideas

Featured Author: @edgaruvm
Gently Murder Me - Page 1 Breakdown

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I believe that there are few things more important than the freedom of expression, that grant you such freedom in your work is incredible. This is shown by @edgaruvm, he showed us how the creative process of a page of his comic "Gently Murder Me" was.

With great detail and expertise, he intuitively shows us his work, all skillfully explained in such an appreciable step by step. @edgaruvm has really become these kinds of authors that we all should watch, his works are not only tailor-made for art lovers cause his skills have reached even further frontiers. He has just proven us that he can be a creative writer as well. He is a real artist, a powerful creative mind that can develop projects as good as this one.

"Gently Murder Me" is not only remarkable as an artwork, but it is also a compelling project that truly has potential as a comic itself.

Contemplate @edgaruvm's amazing artwork and keep an eye on this project.

Featured Author: @bynThe Storm

This story takes place in a hut flooded by a snowstorm, a family is trapped in such a hopeless situation. The development of this story is just so skillfully crafted, there is much feeling infused in each line of text, in each dialogue... As a writer myself, I must confess that I find it amazing how @byn can be such a prolific author without sacrificing the quality of her writing, she is just one of these examples of the talented writers that can be found on this platform.

It is a work of fiction so captivatingly sad, the way the author relates the heartbreaking and desperate situations but written with enough expertise to keep you in uncertainty while giving you subtle hints of hope. This one is such a compelling story in which you will most likely have these mixed feelings, it is really, really difficult not to cry while reading such heart-touching lines (believe me when I say that at the very ending you might find yourself almost crying). There is not much more left to say without giving you spoilers. If you want to enjoy this emotional story, then I invite you to read it.

Read this emotional story by the promising writer @byn

Featured Author: @leeart
ULOG #48: Mt. Yangbew revisited, again [with video]

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@leeart has just flown us to these mystical mounts by just showing us such stunning pictures. Mt. Yangbew is like these kinds of places full of vivid colors in which artists may take a deep breath and then just let their imaginations fly, it's just that it wouldn't be difficult at all for them to get inspired by it and then just capture its marvelous landscapes through some sort of plein air paintings. @leeart didn't paint something, but he captured the beauty behind this place almost perfectly. He's an artist in his own way.

He's an inveterate hiker and this is his second visit to this magical place. It is difficult to think such a beautiful place is, at the same time, suffering from humanity irresponsibility. How can something that beautiful, vivid and colorful can be defiled? I just wonder... Despite all, this place hasn't been stripped of its essence yet, so this is like a must-visit place that all travelers over the world should not miss; though let's remember that we, as humans, must always keep in mind that to protect our natural heritage is just one of our main missions.

Watch these amazing shots taken by @leeart

This Curie Author Showcase was written by Curie Curator @jhnmunoz (Johanna Muñoz) at times with input from other Curie curators and reviewers. All images and quoted texts are the copyright of their respective authors.