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Author Tuesdays: Emotion/Motivation Chart

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Found this gem floating around on the internet: It’s an old school style chart of emotions to help out us writers!

Not really sure who originally crafted it but found it here:
http://ttescurel.wordpress.com/2013/12/09/writing-lol-best-emotion-chart-ever/

and here:
http://www.reddit.com/r/writing/comments/1qy472/an_interesting_old_school_chart_of_emotions_for/

Toiling Tuesdays: Amazon Cost Calculator

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Wonder what your book will cost before you’re even finished with it? Createspace (Amazon affiliate) has a handy Cost calculator so you can determine how much your book will cost to help you make decisions such as, should my page count be shorter? Should I use a smaller trim size? Or is it at all cost-effective to make it a hardcover?

https://www.createspace.com/Products/Book/

Foodie Fridays: Rachel Barnard Without Sugar Blog

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I started a new challenge and a new blog to document the challenge. Until my birthday I will eat nothing with processed sugars. You can read about it here:

http://rachelbarnardwithoutsugar.blogspot.com/

Find out what the parameters of the challenge are, how difficult I think it will be, the challenges I face along the way, and healthy alternative substitutes for foods rich with processed sugars. 

Author Thursdays: AUTHOR WORKSHOP Round table on Self-Publishing Ins and Outs of Self Publishing from Those Who have Been There Done That?

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Tuesday January 28, 2014 1:10 PM – 9:30 PM 
101 W North Bend Way, North Bend, WA 98045

The Authors of FreeValley Publishing tell all from their Choice of Publishing Sites, Services and Formats to Negotiating the World of Sales and Promotions. Discuss options and Learn from the experience of those who have gone before you!

 

 
Don’t miss your chance to attend this Information-packed session.
 
>Choices of Publishing
sites and Marketers
> Selecting binding options
> Price points pros & cons
> Formatting Variations
> When to Employ Services
vs. Do It Yourself
> ISBNs and eBooks
> Marketing Options

Toiling Tuesdays: An Evening of Stories – Live at The Black Dog

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An Evening of Stories – Live at The Black Dog

FreeValley Publishing’s authors will be at The Black Dog in Snoqualmie, WA on January 23, 2014 6-7:30pm for a Meet the Author’s event. Our authors will read excerpts from their published works and give short commentary on different aspects of self-publishing. We will then be available to chat and sign books for you.
This is in league with local chap book makers who will also have works available that evening. Paul Green will play Jazz at 7:30 onward, so you can make it a complete entertainment outing. Come an see us!

http://freevalleypublishing.com/2013/12/16/an-evening-of-stories-live-at-the-black-dog/

Medical Mondays: Hospital Smartphone App with Personal Map

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Have you ever gotten lost in a hospital?

Some of them are so large and convoluted, they would make for an excellent relay race location. Seriously, you can go round and round in them.

I propose a new app for smartphones that has maps for hospitals, where you can input your destination (surgery center for example) and they will direct you. Even better would be a holographic/HUD type display that projected outward from the phone to lead you in the right direction. Or perhaps hospitals could employ color coded floor lines (a la Ender’s Game) for common destinations in their building.

Please make this happen!

Also, parking garages could use them. I’m tired of getting lost in those. Or if they could have directions to the nearest open spot, that would be great.

Sarasota Specific Saturday: Amazing Sarasota Scavenger Hunt

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The Amazing Scavenger Hunt: Sarasota Edition
Photo documentation of:
People:
            Pregnant lady
            Arm wrestling a stranger
            Dancing with a stranger
            Sign spinner (extra point for costume)
Things:
            A photoboth
            An alligator
            Classic/exotic car
Miscellaneous
            Kissing under Unconditional Surrender
           
Actions:
            planking        
            public pillow fight
            headphone dance party
            fake picketing (your choice)
            poetry recitation
            donating money 
            acting out a Monty Python skit
To bring back:
            A geocache prize
            Fortune cookie