Good: ostracized
Bad: astrosized
The two sections of the word that should help me is the O and the C. OstraCized is when someone Cuts you Out of the group so remember OstraCized.
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I had the chance to attend the Utah Writers League conference this year because of the generously of a fellow writer, who couldn’t go. Here are my notes.
Two methods of creating convincing worlds. By Stephanie Restivo
Drill down: top to bottom method world building that utilizes a step by step guide to creating a rich environment.
Each world has a creating story.
Map your world and continents and sort out planetary details.
Creation: who made the world, what Gods were involved, or was there a big bang? Why? Understanding how your world came into creation will help define what can or cannot affect your world as a whole.
Ex: a world that came into existence because of the death of great Titan God. When he died his body formed into a world.
Continents & map: need a visual what your world looks like. (Map generators software is online) how many continents. Do you have a visual map in your mind you want to draw or simply have an idea of what you want to describe it as?
Why? Knowing how many continents and what type allows to further define your country borders and cultural influences on the world.
Planetary details:
Sort out how the world works in the universe you’ve created. Also think about the tides, pols, suns, and moons.
Why: the rotation of your world and the number of suns or moons they have will impact both culture and geography
Ex: Two moons and one Sun. One moon is a black moon; the other is a normal moon. Sun drive by pantheon gods.
This step will help you get to know what kind of the land and borders you will have to work within following steps. Pick a continent in which you plan on having a country.
Landscape: see continent from space what are the large masses lakes, mountain range. They can affect multiple countries. It affects resources, affects the culture and reacts to the environment.
Climate: take a moment and chart out the general climate across your continent. Just like the earth where it’s cold, hot desert.
Why: colder areas bring people together. Hotter people spread out. (look in tribal history)
Define things in broad strokes. Countries/ regions
Outline country borders (after landscape) they are defined around rivers, mountains or big regions
Why: countries influence their cities, by landscape
The country:
Understand a country and its culture.
Rough out the country’s story
Define city-state cities and regions
Pick a governing type and population density
Write out a short history of the country and how it came into being. Country’s history defined the culture.
Just need a couple of paragraphs to give a basic understanding
City streets/ regions/ cities
Mark down the large city areas. Select places where they can make trade by rivers. City centered on resources. City location is also influenced by trade.
Government and population density:
Governments= Democracy, royalty, and select density. And government
Culture and society: summarize in a couple of paragraphs. I.e.: Norse traditions and medieval knits/royalty
Landmarks are based on history: stature of liberty and Grand Canyon important to our cultures.
Plots, rumors, and relations: what’s going on in our country? A big event in the country.
Rumors: three-headed baby
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These are notes from a finance class offered at the church. Any misinformation is the fault of the note taker.
– Continue to bless others
– How can serving others open the windows of heaven in your life: CH
– Mosiah 2;17
– Mosiah 4:26
– Gordon by Hinckley: when you are united your power is limitless. you can accomplish anything you wish to accomplish
– Robert hales The purpose of temporal self-reliance is to get on the higher ground so we can lift others.
– Before you gain to save. Estimate how much you leave. Years of retirement and how much money needed for those years.
– Don’t kill the goose (the investment) live off the eggs. Live off the dividends not the principal amount.
– Einstein: Compound interest is the 8th wonder of the world.
– Be aware of high-risk investments.
– Doug Andrew: tells how to invest and how to pay least enough for taxes.
– Need to diversify with a mix of high-risk investments to some investments are safer.
– All investments can be put into two categories.
– Fixed rate: rate will be the same. Often have a lower rate of return. savings is an example or dc or bonds.
– Variable rate: return can go up and down. Stocks funds, real estate. Riskier and carry the potential for higher return.
– Diversification is a mix of fixed and variable.
– Compound interest: is interest on top of interest.
– Typically have to pay taxes on investments.
– The sooner you start saving for retirements the longer the money has a chance to grow.
– Set up an emergency fund first.
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These are some notes from a church meeting. Any misinformation is the fault of the note taker.
– Premortal life we know we would be faced with adversity. Life would be hard to have trials and sickness but we were eager to come. We know we needed to have those experiences.
– Job was a prophet who feared God. After all things were taken away he still had faith in God. After the trial, he gained twice as much as before.
– Boy in Peru went on mission home with only the clothes on his back. His family who objected to him going had burned his suitcases. He went anyway. He as happy for the change to be there in the mission home.
– The most extraordinary thing about the Oster is there. The irritations go into the shell. He uses the irritation he does the most wondering things he can do. Make a pearl.
– God knows what we need, we need to push through.
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Presentation by Stephen Pratt
Good: toilet
Bad: tolit
Sometimes you want to go to the restroom but the body is not cooperating. It becomes a toil to get the body plumbing to work. Thus after much effort and TOIL, you can finally do your business in the TOILet.
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I had the chance to attend the Utah Writers League conference this year because of the generously of a fellow writer, who couldn’t go. Here are my notes.
– Fear when the lights go out, the book/movie gets scary
– Attractions when you see a beautiful person
– When you see someone. Sometimes it might be someone less fortunate
– Take the common impulse to a vividly surreal story with unexpected conclusions.
– Use one of the seven deadline sins as a standing point for a story. Last, gluttony, sloth, wrath, envy ride, vanity
– Diction is when you put sounds affects into your writing.
– You must ask yourself each sentence:
– Q: What is it saying, what is it doing?
– Q: Is there any way to make it say or do not more intense or with more bravura?
– There is a way to get the sentence to say?
– Dramatize suggestions, not telling
– Write a story fueled by a relationship in which a parent wants something very badly for their child?
– Write a piece where one character makes another character reconsider her image of herself?
– Write a piece in which you put a new employee in a challenging career filed with a challenging choice to be made
– Create a story that reveals a relationship of nature, then using it to examine a human relationship.
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These are notes from a finance class offered at the church. Any misinformation is the fault of the note taker.
Education:
– D&C 88: 118-119
– Q: where do you want to me in 5 years?
– What skills, knowledge, and experience do you need to reach that goal in 5 years?
– Goals should be specific, measurable, time frame and actions in place and be constantly reviewed.
– Finding a mentor;
– May see one who has done what you have done.
– You may have a religious mentor.
– Think of who can be your mentor. pray who to choose.
– Once you decide to tell them you want to make a change in your life. will you help.
– Look for people who can help round your soul.
– A podcast might be one source.
– Don’t feel jealous of people who are better than you. Learn from them. you don’t have to be in competition with them. You can have strengths and two can make a good hole.
Save and invest for the future.
– 3 ways to invest a. home b. saving and c. education.
– Investing in the future;
– Some save for remodels in the house, education for the kids, retirements,
– Fire: finance independence to retire early
Positive and negatives or renting or buying a home:
Rent: advantages
– Flexibility of movement.
– No debt or mortgage
– Not subject to market conditions
– No maintenance costs.
– Less responsibility
– Lower out front costs.
– Bad: build no equity
– Not knowing how long you can stay
– No tax write off
Buying a home: Advantages
– Equity
– Long term
– Make changes you want to the home
– Control of home
– A lot of responsibility and maintenance
– Investments of time and money.
Before you buy a home:
– Does it make sense to rent or buy
– Free of consumer debt
– Living on a budget
– How much of a payment can you afford?
– What additional expenses in addition to the home.
– A mortgage should not be more than A$25% of our income.
– If you stay in a house for over 5 yrs. you’re less inclined to lose money.
– Consider closing costs in your payments.
– Your initial payment goes lower interest.
– Need to pay extra.
– Some will pay a mortgage in every two weeks you will pay one month’s mortgage a yr.
– Need to consider the taxes in your budget.
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These are some notes from a church meeting. Any misinformation is the fault of the note taker.
– In the book of Mosiah king Benjamin: retain a remembrance of God and our own nothingness.
– Another prophet identifies himself as a reached man.
– Alma: God remembered his sins. He was racked with eternal torment.
– Sometimes today we can see what God expects of us and we see that there is an immense distance between what we need to be and what we are.
– If we face sins we continually submit to or fall short of our expected lives, what do we do?
– 1. Maintain a correct perspective. Some quit trying. The story of a William Tell. A governor put a hat on a pole and made the people bow to it as they passed. Some may see the commands that way. The commandments are more than that. Repent and God will receive you.
– 2. Think of the commandments as an invitation.
– 3. View the commandments of what we can become. They can show us what we can become when we follow them.
– 4. The commandments can make us more.
– 5. Hold onto Christ and the iron rod.
– 6. Man in Africa, sun Jatta the great emperor that Africa ever knew. He didn’t walk until he was six. He was promised to be the lion king. Son felt bad about being the cause of others pain. Gets an iron rod and stands with an iron rod.
– 7. 1 Nephi 15: what meaning the rod of iron: Nephi: rod of God
– 8. Helaman 5:3A Nephi: hold onto the Word of God.
– 9. Repent
– 10. Forgive others when they try to repent.
– 11. We’ve all come short of the glory of God or became what we should be. Christ does not save us from our sin or in our sins.
– 12. Christ has the power to redeem us from our sins that will enable us to become something more.
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