Spelling Vinegar

facebooktwittergoogle_plusredditpinterestlinkedin

Bad: Vinager
Good: Vinegar

If I can remember there is grape vine-gar and that grapes grow on vines, then that can help me to spell VINEgar.

Do you have any better ideas, please share.

Posted in The Things I've Recently Learned | Comments Off on Spelling Vinegar

Writing Pulp Fiction for Fun and Profit Pt. B

facebooktwittergoogle_plusredditpinterestlinkedin

This is a continuation of notes from two weeks ago. The presenter was going extremely fast and I was not able to always keep up. Some info is missing.

Checklist for every quarter (and almost every chapter)
– Should have the menace ramp up to the end. Pressure
– Suspense and mystery. Make sure the reader has questions
– Minor twists/surprise unexpected 1 per page. Something that fools with the reader’s expectation.
– Show don’t tell
– Use multiple senses
– Each character scene/ conflict should be different.
– Each scene should develop the character and advance the plot
– Proceed logically.
The first quarter: (of the story)
– The main characters’ settings and the problem should all be in the first paragraph. It should also be in the first and second sentences.
– In the first 1 to 3 should introduce all the principal characters in a short story. 1-3
– The main character tries to solve the problem. He or she shouldn’t be pondering. They should be acting or reacting.
Second-quarter: (of the story)
– Escalation
– The perils deepen (because more danger, tenser, the problem broadens. More impact and grows more difficult.
– The mystery grows even as the bigger Problem and great stakes begin to be revealed.
– Protagonist actions may fail.
Third-quarter: (of the story)
– Things start getting really grim.
– Escalate, Escalate, Escalate
– The main character finally has a real solution that comes together.
– Has it all figured out?
– Plot twist: failure is not just failure but it becomes dismal, royally messed up. One could have the mindset of why even try. I will fail.
Fourth quarters: (of the story)
– Steps by Lesser Dent.
– Just when you thought it couldn’t get any worse.
– Its curtain for our protagonists EXCEPT
– Last-ditch effort succeeds!
– Success must be by the protagonist’s own effort! They rescue themselves and turn the tables on the villain.
– Mystery solved, the villain is vanquished.
– But surprise twist at the end! Villain not as expected, the treasure is a dud, etc.ds tied up
– A chapter at the end. Third-party validation “He’s dead Jim) punch line.
– Every quarter will be several chapters long.
– If multiple characters may have their own arcs
– When in doubt defend in a minor character. Michele morerocek. They help complete puzzles or solve a problem.
– Multiple subplots may follow the same formula
Writing fast:
– Speed is relative. Focus on your own need
– Prep before each scene or session
– Turn off distractions
– Dedicate the time (regular schedule.) think and plan for 5 minutes before you sit down to write.
– Prepare lists of brainstorms element making theme /setting
– Practice.
– Good reference
– http://wwwghostoods.com/2010/05/how-to-write a book
How do well pulp?
– There are few small publishers specialized in pulp fiction. More every year lately. But thy come and ho and usually don’t pay “pro rates”
– Lester dent formula: http://www.paper-dragon.com/1939/dent.html

Posted in Rock Soup | Comments Off on Writing Pulp Fiction for Fun and Profit Pt. B

How to Protect your Art on the Web

facebooktwittergoogle_plusredditpinterestlinkedin

These are notes from Bobbie Berenson w. a Presentation at Life the Universe and everything. It was about protecting your art. Any misinformation is the fault of the note taker. I hope this is her website, but I’m not sure: I tried to google it. https://www.spa-fine-art.com/leslie-berenson

– You don’t need to be an expert on copy write law to protect your art.
– You need to credit that artist.
– Articles: 84 times artist caught a company selling art and selling as their own don’t be afraid, be prepared. Theft is rampant. Unfair use is a problem.
– Make it hard for thieves to steal
– It is easy to copy art and reuse it.
– Tributes and other fan art don’t have many hard rules.
– Big companies watch print on demand sites.
– Keep up to date of the law.
– Parody does fail under fair use, such as bubble and plays with humans
– Best to avoid the stress.

Be aware:
– International artists are also involved in copy write theft.
– Make sure to credit artists.
– Art stolen by corporations is the worse.
– Stolen art can be sold at local venues and not get caught.
– One con artist had little contact info so they can’t be traced such as a PO Box. Came in late and left early to avoid detection.
– Art designers get stolen.
– Posters companies will print Copywrite art.
– Watermark can help prevent theft.
– Solution: write a letter to the offender to remove the art.
– Posted an alert to fans to keep an eye out. Encourage your fans to report abuse. It’s not professional to steal.
– She made her own version to print on demand shop.
– If you work on fonts, make sure you use the ones that are free or purchased for use.

Be prepared:
– Need to be proactive. Identify your pictures. Label each share.
– Use watermark may be in face put name on the edge
– Use low resolution to make look good 75 mpi can look good on screen.
– If art shows up on a screen, it can be used.
– Include art, Copywrite, title, and article.
– Use caution when using social media.
– State use of how something can be used.
– Make sure Instagram shots are blocked or have lighting that will discourage theft.
– Attribution: adding name and title.
– If you repost art, comment on the share, say thanks, and put a link on the website.
– Use the copy write symbol. It shows o value of your art.
– If reference art, reference artist name, who made the link, when, how found it, and where people can find more art like this.
– Include a link to the artist’s website.
– When posting an image clearly state rights for use.
– CC license > can provide limited use of artist work.
– Many art-sharing sites have
– Obama’s hope poster was stolen from a photographer. Mannie Garcia. Fairly the thief tried to destroy evidence of theft

Be watchful:
– Theft is frequently done by companies.
– Rapper Ford stole art from the Fire Watch game.
– How to find out if robbed
– A. friend and family
– B. Do a reverse image search
– Keep an eye for sources that use the type of art that you do.
– Be humble and considerate.
– Often these companies employ artists who don’t get paid enough for original designs often they will borrow art from others. They are rushed and paraphrase.

Be ready for action
– All artist show how the rights to their works
– Different countries have different laws.
– If you need a lawyer may be needed to
– Make a better product and customized it to uniqueness.
– People not buying art, they buy you
– You can copywriter your art legally for a small fee
– Disney has stolen art.

When getting a lawyer
– Use a real lawyer it is worth it
– Any expense to get thief may be eligible for tax reductions
– Do a paper trail
– Is the fight worth it? Samples of letters are on the internet.

Overseas:
– If overseas companies: little chance you can do anything.
– China Company stole
– Encourage your fans to expose an art thief.
– Family and friends bring anger> and want to protect you
– Look to your artist friends.
– It cannot be an obvious imitation.
– Cannot make it grey schedule
– If it can be differentiated, it is not original.
– Wratep Sadat rapper stole art for his cover.
– Some use the excuse the X percentage is different. > Not an excuse.
– Musician black bear stole art.
– When you buy art: showing support, your support shows their efforts are worth it. In addition, you tell them you want to see more of their art.

Where to get more help:
– Illustrators’ society
– Illustrator association
– Architecture illustrations society.
– If someone has stolen art, they may have stolen other artists and see if you can find what other artists and team up.
– Be civil and professional
– If they fight, you go to the host such as itsy or such to make an official complaint.
– If someone making money get a cease and desist letter.

Posted in The Things I've Recently Learned | Comments Off on How to Protect your Art on the Web

Gather Israel

facebooktwittergoogle_plusredditpinterestlinkedin

These are notes from a church meeting. Any misinformation is the fault of the note taker.

– President Russel Nelson: any time you do anything or help anyone. To take convenience with God, your’ heling together Israel.
– President Nelson: Eat your vitamins keeps learning:
– Are we taking it too easy or abandoning the effort the following the gospel.
– D&C 21:9 will bless those who labor in our vineyard with a mighty b lessens
– Church handbook has 12 pages of suggestions on members being member missionaries.
– D&C promises 31 blessings for member missionary work.
– Stand out, be a light, set the standard.
– The field is white for harvest and it doesn’t’ have an expiration date.

Posted in The Things I've Recently Learned | Comments Off on Gather Israel

Spelling Righteousness

facebooktwittergoogle_plusredditpinterestlinkedin

Bad: richiousness
Good: righteousness

First of all, I need to remember right is for RIGHT-ous-ness.
I also pronounce the US so remember the o before US. The NESS I’m good with. RIGHT-o-US-NESS.

Posted in The Things I've Recently Learned | Comments Off on Spelling Righteousness

Writing Pulp Fiction for Fun and Profit Pt. A

facebooktwittergoogle_plusredditpinterestlinkedin

The presenter was going extremely fast and I was not able to always keep up. Some info is missing.

– Early genre fiction for the common man
– Cheap paper and production
– Often action-oriented, lurid, sensational
– Peaked 1930-1950. Wanted with TV and comic.
– Writes made their income y word count sold:
– You had to be prolific by word count sold
– It had to be good enough

    The myth of the pulp era:

– Pulp gives poor quality stories.
– False: quality varied. Many classics were pulp lot of it had to do with desire.
– Workmanlike prose. Lacking literary language.
– Partly false: pulps also printed poetry. Some authors had deeply evocative language.
– The best pulp writers “graduated” to better markets. False: the markets graduated and evolved. By men, for men (and boys). Women are not welcome. Some magazines specialized by a character like Doc salvage Cl more female author hid her gender.
Modern pulp:
– 5 people what modern pulp get 6+ answers.
– Digital distribution and POD is pulp on steroids.
– The spectrum between stories that could have been published in the 1930s, up to modern’s genre fiction. A lot of TV shows are pulp. Indiana Jones is pulp.
– Is action-oriented storytelling.
– Lurid language
– Passionate heroes are decision heroes with a clear sense of what is right and wrong.
– Emphasis one is on entertainment and solid plotting. ‘
– Think superheroes, Indianan Jones, star wars
– Writing pulp today:
– Evergreen tricks, tools, and structure.
– They work as well today as they worked before.
– Not paint by numbers or substitute.
– -Better plots, opening, ending, story tell throughout
– Story structure
– Speedwriting
– Quality writing

    Plot and character:

– Leigh bracket: plots are people. Human emotions and desires are hotter and fiercer as they strike against each other until finally there’s an explosion. That’s plot.
– The hero: The one person who can make a difference. Larger than life (Indiana jones or hat)
– The villain: start with a villain. Almost always large than life. Evil is the extreme of the hero. He is the polar opposite? A representative of the theme? Most pulp-style stories have a villain. The villain has to be more powerful than the hero. Darth Vader could have been what Luke could have been. Superman is strong his arch-nemesis is an evil genius.
– The ally/ sidekick: used in longer work. A mirror of hero There’s always a sidekick to make the response of the hero isn’t allowed to make: to get frightened; to add a lighter note and so on” michalde mooncock.
– Character that sticks tags for characters. Something physical makes it stand out and be immediately identifiable. Cane with a silver handle. Unique for the story. Such as pale man is a vampire.
– Use tags whenever a character reappears in a new scene. “
Traits embody the character.
– Usually a virus or vice. (
– Number of traits depends on the story A hero gets two positive traits and 1 negative trait.
– Villains get two negative traits and 1 positive.
– Trick 2: give hero (and villain?) has two traits the come into conflict.
– Have your allies and other major characters have positive and negative.
– Jim Butcher uses a lot of these traits.
– You can get copies of some pulps
– Got to archive.org.

    Plots that punch:

– 1. A different murder method for the villain to use. An unusual challenge/ problem right at the outset. Like a strange mystery/ rim/ murder.
– 2. Have different things for the villain to be seeking. What is the villain’s goal? What makes it weird and interesting!
– 3. A different locale
– G Brainstorm vocal elements that emphasize the theme/flavor of the story
– Edgar Allan Poe wrote a lot of interesting places. They don’t take place at a local mall. The reader does not know what happens behind the back deck of the airport. Or go to an interesting place. or go to a strange planet.
– 4. A menace which is to hang like a cloud over a hero (man freezes to death in the middle of the Sahara desert. All the clocks have mysteriously stopped. Die-hard: seemed to be about terrorists but are actually after the bank bonds. Have the clock ticking. The character’s house will be foreclosed if not have the necessary money in 24 hrs. Bomb will blow up Las Angelus. Make the problem gets worse and worse.
– Break story in quarters
– The ideal average scene size is 500-2K words.
– Present Dent’s formulas in 6 K words.
– If you can‘t figure out how our hero is going to get out of this one, you are doing it right!

Posted in Rock Soup | Comments Off on Writing Pulp Fiction for Fun and Profit Pt. A

Stocking Your Fridge & Freezer

facebooktwittergoogle_plusredditpinterestlinkedin

This is a video that was offered from my employer’s Healthy Living Video Series Here are my notes. any misinformation is the fault of the note taker.

– Like to keep healthy food to head.
– Freezers some people do not like to have frozen meat and vegetables. It is nice to have a fully stocked freezer.
– Stoke up on bulk meat and separate them. Put in a ziplock, and put the date so I use the oldest first.
– Like frozen vegetables. They are harvested at peak condition. Avoid spoilage of vegetables or fruit. Already chopped. They are sashed, flash-frozen, and healthy.
– Frozen butternut squash. Put on a roasting pan 400 degrees for a half-hour. Cook it, mash it, and put it to squash macaroni and cheese. It is already prepared.
– Liker frozen peas and put them in soups and is a great filler. Ingredients just have the vegetable. Canned vegetables will have a preservative. Canned items have salt put in so put in a strainer and wash. If you see bubbles that is the salt.
– Love frozen onion so you don’t’ have to chop and cry every time.
– Have a bag of frozen berries. Fresh berries can go bad within the week. Eat berries for any season. Put on yogurt, signage, and berries for fruit smoothies. Add with yogurt, and
– Like multigrain waffles with peanut butter and sliced bananas. She looks for waffles that have fiber. They can be premade.
– Protein: fresh and ready to make. Freeze you can thaw and it remains fresh.
– She likes making two Lasagnas. one for now and one for later. Wrap and seal the second when needed. Do the same for big batches of soup and freeze them into smaller containers.
– The safest way to thaw it in the fridge overnight or in the microwave. or in running water.
Fridge
– Like having milk, eggs, and cheese available.
– Cheese can go a long way.
– Greek yogurt is a great snake on the
– You can have lemon juice in you don’t have real
– Minced garlic (Kirtland in Costco) so you do not have to chop and peel.
– When choosing jelly or jam make sure the first ingredient is the fruit. . Look for fruit juice concentrate as the second ingredient.

Posted in The Things I've Recently Learned | Comments Off on Stocking Your Fridge & Freezer

Be One

facebooktwittergoogle_plusredditpinterestlinkedin

These are notes from a church meeting. Any misinformation is the fault of the note taker.

– D&C: be on if you are not one, you are not mine.
– More unity and less strive in culture when we are together.
– Check out the talk, The Culture of Christ.
https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/general-conference/2020/10/27jackson?lang=eng
– We need to celebrate our differences rather than make them stumbling blocks.
– Definitions of righteousness from teachers friends and family:
– Doing what is right.
– Being right with God.
– Doing what is ethics moral or honest.
– Only one of five asked mentioned God.
– Different responses show different interpretations.
– We need to think of the consequences of non-viciousness.
– We are judged by God by what we know.
– Doing unto others as you want others could be a good beginning point.
– Finding unity may be to find a common purpose who you disagree with.
– Remembering our stewardship and help with conflict.
– We need to learn to forgive.
– Two commandments Love God and love our fellow men.
– A group of missionaries try a Galatian approach where they devoted tome stop be on service committees and after years, the hatred of that area against Mormons decreased.
– If you are upset, then avoid the engagement of the situation. In family situations, that family member may exit the room until they calm down. Wait until you can enter the situation in a better mood.
– Sometimes a different opinion such as same attractions may be a mindset.
– Sometimes social norms at a culture change.
– Two hundred years of no contentions in the book of Mormon after Christ’ visit to the Americas.
– We are all children of God and God loves all of us.

Posted in The Things I've Recently Learned | Comments Off on Be One

Slanted Journalism and the 2020 Election

facebooktwittergoogle_plusredditpinterestlinkedin

This is a presentation through American Thought Leaders. Interview by Robert W Sharyl At at Hillsdale college. She gave some very specific examples.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4bxI803q6i8

She made reference to this article as well.

Article: Goodbye Nonpartisan Journalism. And Good Riddance.

https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/06/26/goodbye-nonpartisan-journalism-and-good-riddance-215305/?fbclid=IwAR1NBteVnY_x0C9qu18-MxtW_oNEMD4axXam8VZ6c2cd160CaEOSvPNlcHc

Posted in The Things I've Recently Learned | Comments Off on Slanted Journalism and the 2020 Election

Spelling Accelerate

facebooktwittergoogle_plusredditpinterestlinkedin

Bad: excelerate
Good: accelerate

Here’s an idea. Think of the C in aCcelerate as a tip of a shoe pressing down on the gas pedal. To aCCelerate you apply more pressure of the foot and thus a second C.

Have a better idea? If so, please share.

Posted in The Things I've Recently Learned | Comments Off on Spelling Accelerate