Spelling Humorous

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Good: humorous

Bad:   humerous

 

I keep forgetting the first o. Here is a way to remember. When something is funny you might laugh with your mouth open. It’s really humorous you might open your mouth twice laughing. Thus, remember O and O in humOrOus.

 

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Crafting good subplots

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These are notes I swapped with another note taker at life the universe and everything. That way, we get notes from other panels we may not have attended. The panelists are Brandon Sanderson. Charlie Holmberg, Renee Collins, Kathryn Purdie, Dave Farland

  • Most stories will have subplots so it’s important to do them well.
  • A subplot has a small amount of screen time but has implications to help the end work.
  • Subplots can achieve many different things. Explore worlds, develop character arcs.
  • Each scene should have two to three different things that it accomplishes. You can decide which three things those are.
  • A subplot can be the B story, something that comes up in the second act, and supports the main plot.
  • They support the emotional core. Can address what your character needs when your main plot can’t.
  • Romance can be a really good subplot.
  • A character’s relationship with another person or place can make a good subplot.
  • Subplots can add wonder that transports the reader to another time or place.
  • 520,000 words for Oathbringer and Brandon brought it down to 460,000
  • Humanize your main characters. Don’t just make your character’s awesome, make them vulnerable and sometimes even a little blind. Not everyone thinks logistically.
  • The main plot is the what, and the subplot is the why. – Brandon Sanderson.
  • Your try-fail cycles can bring in a good subplot.
  • When your character has a main goal, how the MC goes about retrieving the objects to help them achieve those goals, that is a good subplot.
  • What can make this more exciting?
  • Is my villain doing enough?
  • How can I make this harder for my MC?
  • Promise, Progress, Payoff. Don’t let your subplots fail to express these issues.

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Self-talk part 1

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These are notes from my weight management class. Any inaccuracies are the fault of the note taker.

 

  • We can have self-talk
  • Just cutting certain foods may not cause weight loss
  • Feelings of accomplishment and hopefulness can encourage more dedication on your goals.
  • Often self-talk is when you’re alone
  • Seek out the triggers of self-talk
  • Causes of self-talk negative
  • Cognitive distortion > say things sound rational but are not true.
  • All or nothing thinking
  • Overgeneralization
  • Mental filter
  • Disqualify the positive
  • Jumping to conclusions
  • Mind reading
  • The fortune teller error
  • Magnifications or minimization
  • Emotional reasoning
  • Should statements
  • Labeling and mislabeling
  • Personalization
  • Assumptions about our appearance can influence our self-talk.

How to think positive

  • Create a list of things we’ve accomplished in the past.
  • Create a list of positive things people said about us.
  • Count your mini accomplishments. Yum, I ate grapes.
  • Concentrate of thing you’ve accomplished when you remember the day.

 

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Christ the Lord has risen today:

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Here are some notes I took from church. Any misinformation is the fault of the note taker.

  • Inspired by a talk from Elder Gong.
  • The change of heart, to be more like Christ, is often a gradual process.
  • Covenants and promises are given to us, we can continually evolve our understanding them.
  • The atonement is an ordinance done by Christ on our behalf. We could not do it by ourselves. Christ met the prerequisite by being perfect.
  • There is the commandment we be one: Mosiah l8:21: Alma’s baptism at the waters of Mormon. He told them to have their hearts knit together. Knit together can be compared to a knitter knitting two pieces together and you can’t see the seam.
  • If we focus on the small and simple things we will find joy and happiness.

 

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5 Minute Crafts Shocking secrets of the food industry

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E-KndjeypOg

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Spelling appetite

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Good: appetite

Bad:   apertite

 

It the middle that always messes me up. What creates can be known to have an enormous appetite, a domesticated pet of course. They always want extra servings. So there is the pet in the middle and two Ps to represent extra severing.  We’ll see if that will help me remember this.

 

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Creating Backgrounds and layouts

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These are notes I swapped with another note taker at life the universe and everything. That way, we get notes from other panels we may not have attended. The panelist were Brian C. Hales, Cara Straton, Bobbie Brendenson W.

  • Try to think cinematically while writing your novel. Imagine the lighting in your work. Things in shadows can have an ominous look or feel.
  • Lloyd Alexander’s Chronicles of predain.
  • Color can tell us the more subtle details of our settings. For example, the elves of Rivendell can be a bright green and gold, whereas the elves of Lothlorien can be a darker green and silver. It gives a sense o Rivendell being more open and welcoming and the Lothlorien elves being more reclusive and mystical.
  • Use the background to say something about the character
  • Draw it with me a YouTube channel with Brian C Hailes https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qp6dJf1waGo

 

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Stress management Part E

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These are notes from my weight management class.

  • 3 good things activity:
  • Some schools in Utah will each day think of three good things that happened to you today. At the end of two weeks. And did brain scans and had huge spots in their brain had lit up.
  • Stick on bible. Think of those things to bed and you can have a good sleep and why are they so meaningful to you. They can feed yourself a conscious brain.
  • Establish a habit of looking for good.
  • Hard things don’t usually stay hard forever it does get better

This can be a good help to depression.

  • Relax!
  • Take time off
  • Take breaks during your day, even if it fits just a few minutes at a time 90-3 – 90-3 90 3
  • Do a physical activity that you enjoy. If it makes you laugh do more if it
  • Exercise your sense-ediate

Beware of perfectionism:

  • Anything worth doing is worth doing
  • If you have to have success at everything you’ll try nothing.
  • The need to do 20 but 5 is enough
  • Let it go!
  • “Holding on to resentment is like drinking poison and hope it will kill your enemies Nelson Mandela.

Our stress toolkits:

  • We all need a stress toolkit
  • Take actions now and build your toolkit:
  • Chose one day a week to create a schedule for the coming week
  • Plan at least one relaxing activity for yourself
  • Become aware of your responses to stress
  • Trying journaling or tracking
  • Go mouse and cheese ad > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VcSBO8YAnTQ
  • Ripple the dog https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nGeKSiCQkPw
  • My relationship with my partner/ friend is more important than correcting their behavior.

 

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Enduring to the end

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Here are some notes I took at church. Any misinformation is the fault of the note taker.

  • Elder Rupert Hales: we count them happy who endure.
  • There was an athlete who was last in an Olympic race. He suffered fatigue, dehydration and leg cramps. When he was asked why he kept going he said: my country sent me here to finish the race.
  • 2 Nephi 31:20 endure to the end, you shall have eternal life
  • Dc 24:8: endure afflictions
  • As long as we do our best we can return to God’s presence.
  • Basic requirements for enduring to the end:
  1. Know are children of God
  2. Understand the purpose of the life, endure to the end
  3. Living obediently with a desire and determinations to endure all things.
  4. Read scriptures and pray
  5. Take the sacraments weekly
  6. Fasts offending
  7. Renew our temple recommend
  8. Serve in the work of the lord.

 

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USBA Joins USDOE in Trying to Take Away Families’ Freedom to #OPTOUT:

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USBA Joins USDOE in Trying to Take Away Families’ Freedom to #OPTOUT: Common Core RISE same as Common Core SAGE

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