Writing children books

Posted on March 8, 2018 by
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These are from the writer’s conference of life the universe and everything. Any misinformation is the fault of the note taker

  • What is your favorite voice? Remember your childhood. You each have had a different experience as a child. Talk to kids and find out what their questions are and their joys. You feel powerless but want to have power?
  • You as an author have a direct line to a certain age that will direct you to the age group you feel most natural at in writing.
  • Ease drop on the conversations of kids. Maybe volunteer at school or after school program so you can better understand your audience and talk to them.
  • When you look at your text, see how many complex sentences there are. How many are there of those type of sentences?
  • There are rhythms for MG and YA different, YA   is shorter and had more action. One author had 7 pg range per chapter.
  • Kids put things together and YA does a lot of running and action.
  • Early reader rooks will have a little cliffhangers
  • Childhood Rhyme: Jingle Bells, Batman smells, Robin laid an egg. The Batmobile lost a wheel and Robin flew away.
  • Write your passion.
  • Kids read up usually by two years
  • One age marker in a book is influenced by subplots and influences the market, the book is targeted for.
  • Ya are concerned about their part of the world and how they will affect or change in society.
  • Mg is about family and siblings.
  • If you create a three-dimensional character they will be universal.
  • Kids having challenges with family and outside
  • Other readers need to relate to the character’s emotions.

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Way to Health week 2 part b: 

Posted on March 6, 2018 by
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My continued notes from my weight control class.

 

–          Believing or knowing something leads to action.

–          Exercise is not alone in losing weight but more what we eat.

–          Close the gap between myths and what works for you.

–          Understanding behavior and how change happens.

–          We need to understand why we do the things we do.

–          Habit is we’ve done it forever.

–          YouTube: How habits work: how to reap habits from the power of habit by Charley ???

–          Cure: that makes the behavior unfold automatically.

–          a pattern of behaver that triggers a certain routine;

–          One man at work at 3:30 has a routine.  he will buy a cookie and talk to colleges.  He altered his habit and just talked to friends without buying the cookie.

–          Altered his behavior as it was not the cookie he sought but socializing.

–          Book: the power of habit.

–          Some will come home and eat or snack because its time from work. Eat an apple driving home.

–          Some will clean or eat first to delay the task you don’t want to do.

–          Eating mindlessly while reading a book.

–          Some may eat to find the magical energy food to refresh their body.

–          Some will set up a deadline to start getting ready for bed and establish a routine and maybe have it expand to the weekend,

–          If there is a habit that you do already then add a routine to connect to that habit. Take out the trash go around the block. Maybe go up the steps to work.

–          Some people know they will do something as a celebration and eat according to lead to the event and then enjoy the event.

–          2. our environment: Chicken wing study.

–          Eat less: you have to see it before you eat it. Don’t eat with our eyes. Dish out what you want to eat.

–          Brian wonsink: book [u]mindless eating[/u].

–          Don’t have food out in the ditch. Put food out of sight.

–          No longer have junk food out of choices.

–          Want to eat, it often means you are thirsty

–          Just pour a little powder in a drink to color the water.

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Choosing between obedience and disobedience

Posted on March 4, 2018 by
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Notes from church one Sunday:

  • Following the word of wisdom was a challenge for the speaker.
  • As learned the gospel she became fearf8ul that she would never be good enough if she didn’t/t follow the commandments.
  • Realize that commandments don’t come with regret. No commandment is too small or too great to achieve.
  • Each of us has opportunities to learn the commandments that God has given us.
  • Ask yourself why do you follow the commandments? Is it because you want to follow Christ. Do we fear punishment and regret? Is it to have a reward that we did good?
  • We need to ask that question to see why we do what we do. At some point in our lives, we will believe in ourselves and connect to our Heavenly Father.
  • Are we all going to follow the commandments in fear or in faith?
  • Is it better to follow the commandments in fear than to not follow them at all?
  • When someone has a problem with a particular command they can get depressed that they are not good enough.
  • It is our choice on how we can follow the commandments.
  • D&C 75: I am the Lord the light to honor those in riotousness
  • God wants us to open our hearts to him. Wants us to live the commandments because it comes from our heart.
  • Obedience also helps us to progress. To get to know our father in heaven. We decide to follow the truth and riotousness.
  • As a parent, we tell a child to complete a task. Parents feel good
  • When the child does what has been asked. Bette when they do it because they want to do it.

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Difference between Syphon or Siphon

Posted on February 28, 2018 by
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Syphon or Siphon is the same thing. It is a tube to transport liquid. Both spellings are acceptable.

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Difference between middle grade and young adult: 

Posted on February 27, 2018 by
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These are from the writer’s conference of life the universe and everything. Any misinformation is the fault of the note taker.

 An intense scene is more YA

  • mg: middle grade ya: young adult
  • The younger protagonist the more likely it is MG
  • Barnes and noble rule: if the protagonist is a teen. Itoes to YA
  • Sometimes the plot will influence what category the book is in ie: dragons and horses are middle-grade
  • May not want to put the age of the character in the book but include it in the pitch.
  • Middle-grade fiction doesn’t need a detailed description of gore. When you don’t go into detail the reader can fill in the details.
  • Moms will write to authors and complain, as they will see more in a book. They will read more into a scene. So remember, you are writing for anyone and for every age.
  • Kids read on their level and adults read it on their level.
  • Who buys the book: for MG grandparents and parents.
  • Publishers will skip on a book where the author does not have a not clear definition of the target audience.
  • Look for a publisher and find books that are like yours.
  • Things not to do: anytime you break a promise to the reader says its YA but mg.
  • Bickering siblings is a deterrent, especially if it is all the time.

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Way to Health wk 2 part b: 

Posted on February 26, 2018 by
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My continued notes from my weight control class.

 

–          Believing or knowing something leads to action.

–          Exercise is not alone in losing weight but more what we eat.

–          Close the gap between myths and what works for you.

–          Understanding behavior and how change happens.

–          We need to understand why we do the things we do.

–          Habit is we’ve done it forever.

–          YouTube: How habits work: how to reap habits from the power of habit by Charley ???

–          Cure: that makes the behavior unfold automatically.

–          a pattern of behaver that triggers a certain routine;

–          One man at work at 3:30 has a routine.  he will buy a cookie and talk to colleges.  He altered his habit and just talked to friends without buying the cookie.

–          Altered his behavior as it was not the cookie he sought but socializing.

–          Book: the power of habit.

–          Some will come home and eat or snack because its time from work. Eat an apple driving home.

–          Some will clean or eat first to delay the task you don’t want to do.

–          Eating mindlessly while reading a book.

–          Some may eat to find the magical energy food to refresh their body.

–          Some will set up a deadline to start getting ready for bed and establish a routine and maybe have it expand to the weekend,

–          If there is a habit that you do already then add a routine to connect to that habit. Take out the trash go around the block. Maybe go up the steps to work.

–          Some people know they will do something as a celebration and eat according to lead to the event and then enjoy the event.

–          2. our environment: Chicken wing study.

–          Eat less: you have to see it before you eat it. Don’t eat with our eyes. Dish out what you want to eat.

–          Brian wonsink: book [u]mindless eating[/u].

–          Don’t have food out in the ditch. Put food out of sight.

–          No longer have junk food out of choices.

–          Want to eat, it often means you are thirsty

–          Just pour a little powder in a drink to color the water.

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Zion

Posted on February 25, 2018 by
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Notes from church one Sunday:

  • Is the pure in heart
  • Can be church/ stakes
  • City of Enoch
  • Building of Zion (the purifying of our hearts)
  • Existed before in previous dispensations.
  • Moses 7:17: City of Enoch. People were united in riotousness.
  • Moses7:63: the city will return to New Jerusalem.
  • Dc 101:6-8 God is slow to hear cries of the people due to un-riotousness. People polluted themselves by behavior and actions.
  • Later day prophets had encouraged us to established Zion in our hearts.
  • Dc 82:14-15 Zion’s borders must expand. Stakes must be strengthened. We must increase in holiness.
  • Characteristics of people of Zion:
  • DC: 97:21 pure in heart
  • DC: 28:27: be one heart and one mind
  • DC: 64:34,35: obedient rules followed by consequences. Partaker  of the spirt to help us along the way
  • DC:105: 3: sinners not helping the poor and afflicted.
  • DC: 97: 10-16: temple, concentration
  • Dc 105:10 teaching each other.

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Spelling permeated

Posted on February 25, 2018 by
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Good: permeated

Bad:   permated

 

Ok, this is a weird idea but we’ll see if it works. Mean raw and rotting can create such a smell that it perMEATed the entire room. Or if you cook a nice MEATloaf or rost that cooked meat can permeate the room with a wonderful aroma.

Do you have a better idea of how to spell the word? If you do, please feel free to share in the comment section of this blog.

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Script advice

Posted on February 21, 2018 by
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Notes from LTUE. Any misinformation is the fault of the note taker.

 

  • If you have tried to write a script, you are a scriptwriter
  • A writer’s first objective is to act with confidence.
  • Start writing even if you don’t know what you’re doing yet.
  • George Lucas is not a member of the script guild, he did ok.
  • You get paid for the script and then you get paid for rewrites and when you submit it needs to be in final draft.
  • Please use some type of scriptwriting software. The format is essential to agents/ movie houses. If they can tell the script is not on screenwriting software we just pass it. Because in our experience it is a waste of time for us to read because there will be formatting issues.
  • You use Courier font 12 point. It format to the correct word counts to the industry.
  • Ways for a script to look good on a page. You want to write pictures.
  • The description is a bit like an outline. There may be paragraphs if there is world build that moves the plot forward.
  • The description is blocking and you want to use descriptive words like crashes rather than falling.
  • Big blocking paragraphs are a killer to your script.
  • Filmmakers are visual and a bit AED. And have white space and streamline your script.
  • Every word you write is your enemy.
  • Read a lot of scripts of movie you admire.
  • Imsdb: is where you can scripts.
  • Script pdf by author google it.
  • In scripts will put in “we see this”
  • You can take a script class.
  • Spike the scene with a dialog. Helps long test and gives a reader a pause.
  • Windows and orphans: so avoid a single word with at the end of a line. No hanging word or no lead world few words. You can combine sentences or remove extra unnecessary words.
  • Watch text manipulation. There are areas to loosen or tighten but don’t do it too often.
  • Add a variety of paragraph changes length.
  • you can write shorts.
  • If there short scenes. Occasionally do quick one line:
  • Car rush man
  • Jumps to the side
  • Car crashes into the wall
  • You do not direct the film in the script.
  • Dialog and action: what does to our eyes. Dialog and action.
  • Script writing is like poetry because it is compressed.
  • Underling, italics bold can add a little variety in the text. Maybe like for blast.
  • Slugline is moving to a new scene Interior/exterior. May put in bold to add variety. Slugline tells the director how to set up the scene.
  • Screen format is for you but those who work on the move will use the script to do their jobs.
  • Italics can be used for internal dialog.
  • Transitions with Hard cuts: move to an entire location. Tells the reader we are going to an entirely new location.
  • Google: short scripts.
  • Sub slug: run into the hallway.
  • Query short films.
  • WGA: you can register a script. Provide insurance, 35 grand.

 

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Way to Health week 2, Part A: 

Posted on February 20, 2018 by
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Notes from my weight control class.

–          Link to food journal: Intermountainhealthcare.org/nutrion/

  1. Scroll down to services
  2. Way to heath: box with
  3. Menu: live well tracker.

–          How much water? If your urine is pale you are probably drinking enough. If it is more colored then you need to drink more.

–          The behavior core:

Basics of behaver change.

–          Every positive change in your life begins with a clean, unequivocal decision that you are going to either do something or stop doing something.

–          The three cs in life choice, chance, change. You must take the chance. If you want anything in life to change.

–          Life will only change when you become more committed to your dreams than you are to your comfort zone.

–          If you are not committed it will never stick.

–          Weight loss is totally in your brain.

–          We need to have commitments to ourselves and how we as individuals can succeed and not just to others or job.

–          Some people feel overwhelmed by thinking of forever but just think of dedicated to your goals for the week.

–          Portion control is a key component to success. A piece of cake should be smaller.

–          We have to stay diligent to maintain our goals or we return to old habits and old problems.

–          Misconceptions about change:

–          Relying on that willpower alone will help you achieve a lifestyle change. It can be a roll but more is needed.

–          Attempting giant leaps begins with small steps; otherwise, we can feel overwhelmed.

 

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