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One/Each other & Alaskan (/2//12)
Since spelling and grammar are not my strengths I am always grateful to learn tricks from those who are more skilled in this area. One thing I recently learned was during a critique session of my Book: Operation Middle School … Continue reading
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Blog Your Passion: My notes from a presentation by Leigh Anne Wilkes. (3/14/12)
This last weekend I attended Story@Home story telling / family history conference. (http://www.cherishbound.com/blog/storyathome/ ) I found the conference to be very good and had valuable information. The story teller Kim Weltkamp is a very talented teller. (http://www.kimweitkamp.com/) The thing … Continue reading
Fiction Panel with Dean Hughes, Anita Stansfield and Stephen Tuttle (3/14/12)
Last Wednesday I went to a fiction panel at the library and thought I’d share my notes. I am mixing all the different authors responses into one group. I may have revised how some things are said by my interpretation … Continue reading
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Useful story telling techniques I’ve observed at Weber State Story Telling Festival. (2/29/12)
It has been great observing fellow story tellers at the Weber State Storytelling festival. I thought for today’s creativity discussion in Rock Soup, I would relay some observations of what I’ve seen other tellers do to handle their audience, address … Continue reading
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Collected data and ask questions. (2/22/12)
I had a goal. Get a website created. I am not a technical kind of gal. The only byte I know is from a juicy peach. I have to constantly have my hand held, on anything computer related. I admit … Continue reading
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List of Books that Publishers Want (2/15/12)
If gives me a personal delight to take advantage of the knowledge of other people and this is a great example. At Life the Universe and Everything writing symposium in 2011 the panel of this name discussed what kids have … Continue reading
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Pet Projects gone wild (2/8/12)
Today’s discussion is a bit of a tribute to the Life the Universe and Everything symposium and to the Leading Edge Magazine. First of all a little history, around 1981 at BYU University a group of students took a SF/F … Continue reading
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Bungee Plot: (2/1/12)
Bungee. Today’s discussion is going to touch how I sometimes develop a story line. I will give a specific example from a story that readers felt was an unusual plot. The story is called Bungee. Bungee was first created while … Continue reading
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Creating a garden note book: (3/13/2012)
I have to admit that I have not completed my perfect garden notebook. Even in its limited use I see the advantages to keeping some type of journal of planting activity outside my house for my yard and garden. Today’s … Continue reading
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A way to organize my tax information for easy access: 3/6/12
The following suggestions might be obvious to some; but, I didn’t make this discovery until in recent years. Usually when it came to doing my taxes I would type things up each year and then use a calculator to add … Continue reading
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