Marketing Your Book

I found this question on LuLu Forums:

[quote="Alex Martin"]I’m 15 years old, and I need some help with ideas with marketing, even though I’m doing pretty well promoting in school.

The book is science-fiction, called ‘SHADOWS: THE NARLAN WARS’.
Tons of action and suspense

-Alex Martin[/quote]

Here is my answer:

A thing that works for me and several other writers I know personally, is to print up about 10 copies of your book, and than giving a free copy to each library in your local area.

O.K. First off… be sure to include a page in the back of your book, that lists the selling price and your LuLu.com storefront URL so that anyone who reads your book in the library will know how to buy themselves and their friends a copy of it.

Now, just walk into your school library and hand your librarian a copy of your book and tell him/her that your would like to donate this book to the library’s collection. Be sure to give a copy to each of your school’s libraries (the elementary school’s library, the middle school’s library, and the high school’s library), and give one to your town’s local public library. These tasks are simple, you just walk in and say you’d like to dionate a book to the library collection, hand them the book and you are done.

But don’t stop there.

How many towns boarder your town? One? Two? Three? More? Each one of them has a library too.

Expand… find out how many town’s there are in your state county, each one of those town’s has a library: print up at least one copy for each library.

Send at least 3 copies to the state’s library.

Are there any local colleges? Colleges all have libraries… send out a copy to each one.

Now…. this may sound like a daunghting task, but you do not have to actually visit each of those libraries. All you have to do is get a local phone book, and look up libraries in the yellow pages. Count how many libraies are in your part of the state: that is how many books you will need to print up.

Type up a letter. One page. Keep it simple. State your name. Say that you are a local author and that enclosed is a copy of your latest book. Tell them that you are donateing this copy to their collection. Include your mailing address in case they want to contact you. (they may want to order more copies from you or they may want to set up a book signing… libraries love to get local authors to come in and talk to readers.) Print up one copy of the letter for each library. And that’s it. You are done.

Now, you will need to run out to WalMart or Staples or OfficeMax or some other such place and buy a box of bubble-mailers. 12×15. They come in boxes of 10, 25, 50, ect. Buy as many as you need. Put one letter and one book in each envelope. Address one envelope per library. Now go to the post office and mail them. It’s going to cost about $4 each evelope, more or less depending on the weight of your book. Be sure to ask to send it by “Media Mail” as this is the cheapest way to send books. (Otherwise you’re looking at $7- $8 per book).

Anyways, you’ll be mailing out 10 – 30 books free of charge, and in the end (not including the cost you paid LuLu for your books) this is going to cost you $50 – $100. However, it will get your book into the hands of 30,000 – 500,000 people depending on how big your local towns are. Most people who see a book they like in the library, try to find that book for sale so they can buy their own copy of it.

I know this seems like a lot to do up front, but remember too, that you do not have to mail them all out at once. You can do it a little bit over the course of a couple of years even. Say, mail out one book to a library each month. Doing it that way is slower, but only costs you about $4 shipping, $1 for the evelope, plus the cost of the book. At a rate of one book per month, you won’t break the bank and you’ll keep word of your book out for a longer period of time.

I hope this helps.

What’s your take on this? I’d love to hear what you have to say about this post. Leave a comment and share your views!

————-
Copper Cockeral
Publishing Your NaNo Novel?
Do You and I Read the Same Books?
Want to Give Me a Reward for Reaching 50k?
*I Love Phookas!*
Got Writer’s BlocK? Kill It Today!
Need A Quiet Place To Write? Find Help Here!
Need Help Creating Characters? Check This Out!
Want to Do a Good Deed? Save the Goldeneagle.

Marketing Your Book

I found this question on LuLu Forums:

[quote="Alex Martin"]I’m 15 years old, and I need some help with ideas with marketing, even though I’m doing pretty well promoting in school.

The book is science-fiction, called ‘SHADOWS: THE NARLAN WARS’.
Tons of action and suspense

-Alex Martin[/quote]

Here is my answer:

A thing that works for me and several other writers I know personally, is to print up about 10 copies of your book, and than giving a free copy to each library in your local area.

O.K. First off… be sure to include a page in the back of your book, that lists the selling price and your LuLu.com storefront URL so that anyone who reads your book in the library will know how to buy themselves and their friends a copy of it.

Now, just walk into your school library and hand your librarian a copy of your book and tell him/her that your would like to donate this book to the library’s collection. Be sure to give a copy to each of your school’s libraries (the elementary school’s library, the middle school’s library, and the high school’s library), and give one to your town’s local public library. These tasks are simple, you just walk in and say you’d like to dionate a book to the library collection, hand them the book and you are done.

But don’t stop there.

How many towns boarder your town? One? Two? Three? More? Each one of them has a library too.

Expand… find out how many town’s there are in your state county, each one of those town’s has a library: print up at least one copy for each library.

Send at least 3 copies to the state’s library.

Are there any local colleges? Colleges all have libraries… send out a copy to each one.

Now…. this may sound like a daunghting task, but you do not have to actually visit each of those libraries. All you have to do is get a local phone book, and look up libraries in the yellow pages. Count how many libraies are in your part of the state: that is how many books you will need to print up.

Type up a letter. One page. Keep it simple. State your name. Say that you are a local author and that enclosed is a copy of your latest book. Tell them that you are donateing this copy to their collection. Include your mailing address in case they want to contact you. (they may want to order more copies from you or they may want to set up a book signing… libraries love to get local authors to come in and talk to readers.) Print up one copy of the letter for each library. And that’s it. You are done.

Now, you will need to run out to WalMart or Staples or OfficeMax or some other such place and buy a box of bubble-mailers. 12×15. They come in boxes of 10, 25, 50, ect. Buy as many as you need. Put one letter and one book in each envelope. Address one envelope per library. Now go to the post office and mail them. It’s going to cost about $4 each evelope, more or less depending on the weight of your book. Be sure to ask to send it by “Media Mail” as this is the cheapest way to send books. (Otherwise you’re looking at $7- $8 per book).

Anyways, you’ll be mailing out 10 – 30 books free of charge, and in the end (not including the cost you paid LuLu for your books) this is going to cost you $50 – $100. However, it will get your book into the hands of 30,000 – 500,000 people depending on how big your local towns are. Most people who see a book they like in the library, try to find that book for sale so they can buy their own copy of it.

I know this seems like a lot to do up front, but remember too, that you do not have to mail them all out at once. You can do it a little bit over the course of a couple of years even. Say, mail out one book to a library each month. Doing it that way is slower, but only costs you about $4 shipping, $1 for the evelope, plus the cost of the book. At a rate of one book per month, you won’t break the bank and you’ll keep word of your book out for a longer period of time.

I hope this helps.

What’s your take on this? I’d love to hear what you have to say about this post. Leave a comment and share your views!

————-
Copper Cockeral
Publishing Your NaNo Novel?
Do You and I Read the Same Books?
Want to Give Me a Reward for Reaching 50k?
*I Love Phookas!*
Got Writer’s BlocK? Kill It Today!
Need A Quiet Place To Write? Find Help Here!
Need Help Creating Characters? Check This Out!
Want to Do a Good Deed? Save the Goldeneagle.

What Have You Learned from NaNoWriMo?

So you have finished NaNoWriMo. Maybe you reached 50,000 words, maybe you did not. Either way NaNoWriMo ends in 20 hours, 26 minutes and 3 seconds. Now it is time to look back on the month and your novel and reflect upon what you have done and where this contest has taken you. What have you learned in this challenge?

I learned the 50,000 words when you look at them all together, looks awful skimpy.

I learned that 50,000 words reads more like a short story than a novel

I learned that I reached 50,000 words and am not even half way through my story.

I learned that I need to write another 75,000 words (or more) in order to reach the end of my novel.

What Have You Learned In this Challenge?

————-
Publishing Your NaNo Novel?
Do You and I Read the Same Books?
Want to Give Me a Reward for Reaching 50k?

What’s your take on this? I’d love to hear what you have to say about this post. Leave a comment and share your views!

————-
Copper Cockeral
Publishing Your NaNo Novel?
Do You and I Read the Same Books?
Want to Give Me a Reward for Reaching 50k?
*I Love Phookas!*
Got Writer’s BlocK? Kill It Today!
Need A Quiet Place To Write? Find Help Here!
Need Help Creating Characters? Check This Out!
Want to Do a Good Deed? Save the Goldeneagle.

What Have You Learned from NaNoWriMo?

So you have finished NaNoWriMo. Maybe you reached 50,000 words, maybe you did not. Either way NaNoWriMo ends in 20 hours, 26 minutes and 3 seconds. Now it is time to look back on the month and your novel and reflect upon what you have done and where this contest has taken you. What have you learned in this challenge?

I learned the 50,000 words when you look at them all together, looks awful skimpy.

I learned that 50,000 words reads more like a short story than a novel

I learned that I reached 50,000 words and am not even half way through my story.

I learned that I need to write another 75,000 words (or more) in order to reach the end of my novel.

What Have You Learned In this Challenge?

————-
Publishing Your NaNo Novel?
Do You and I Read the Same Books?
Want to Give Me a Reward for Reaching 50k?

What’s your take on this? I’d love to hear what you have to say about this post. Leave a comment and share your views!

————-
Copper Cockeral
Publishing Your NaNo Novel?
Do You and I Read the Same Books?
Want to Give Me a Reward for Reaching 50k?
*I Love Phookas!*
Got Writer’s BlocK? Kill It Today!
Need A Quiet Place To Write? Find Help Here!
Need Help Creating Characters? Check This Out!
Want to Do a Good Deed? Save the Goldeneagle.

Real Places in fictional stories. Good thing or bad?

Another question from NaNoWriMo forums:

[quote=purplejaz]For those of you who are using real cities
and towns as settings in your novels, will you be using actual businesses and such in your story? I’m setting my novel here, in Rapid City, South Dakota, and I wasn’t sure whether I should use the actual bars and stores and restaurants or make up fake ones for the purposes of the story. To be honest, I’m not sure that it even matters, but I’d love to hear how everyone else is approaching this. Do you use them as is, or create entirely new
ones? Or do you use the businesses that exist and change their names? I suppose if you’re going to go so far as to manufacture fake businesses you might as well just create an entire fictional
town, huh?

Anyways,
enough over-analyzing on my part…tell me what your
plans are!

-Brianna
———-

- Brianna

[/quote]

I write local for about 98% of all my books, articles, and stories. Very local. Most of my stories never leave the tiny 7 mile long, 3 mile wide beach-strip town I live in. And in most cases, they never even got 100 feet away from my front yard: I actualy dismissed the fact that my house was there and stuck a big manor-house in the same spot! Because I live here, real events… like Ice Storm ‘98 and the ravenges of Hurrinaine Bob in ‘91, actualy make it ito my books. I end up writing entire stories based on local events. In my stories you’ll often find the OOB Pier, Palace Playland, and Bill’s Pizza . . . let’s not forget the beach itself!Rarly do I write a story that does not include Old Orchard’s Old Orchard Beach. Odd thing is, some 400 miles to my North is Arcadia National Park and it’s famous Thunder Hole, and yet, in my stories, I’ve got the Thunder Hole note more than 500 yards away from the OOB Pier! And the White Mountains of New Hampshire? Yeah, I moved them too.

Now to answer your question: How to handle writing about real places:

A lot depends on one question:

Are you planning to publish this story, or is it just for your eyes only?

This is a very tricky area, that the best answer for is:

when in doubt -leave it out.

Why? Because while a few places may be glad for the free publicity, just as many will be quick to slap you with a lawsuit. I know that sounds silly, but it is a sad true fact that many writers learn this the hard way, the same day the sheriff knocks on their door and tells them they must appear in court. This type of lawsuit is far more common than a copyright infringment lawsuit, and rarly goes in the author’s favor.

Now you are asking: “Why would they sue me? If I owned their busines I’d love to be in that book!” …hhhhmm… step outside of yourself and think about it for a minute: Would you? Would you REALLY like it if you were reading a book one day and suddenly found that your home was in the book, and everything from sex to murder was going on in your kitchen?

A lot depends on the nature of what you write.

For example: If you MC says to another character: “I eat at Moe’s Pizza on Third St, rwice a week . . . you should go there, they make the best pizza!”Than the two go there and remanice good times over a mushroom and cheese deep dish. Foor something like this (which was actualy done: read -’Mystic Pizza’) You are not going to have any problems. In this case you may even wish to give the business owner a copy of the book and ask if they’d sell copies of it off their tables/counter. In a case like this, your book is good publicity for them, and they’d love to ppromote it.

Let’s consider instead this example: While eating a Moe’s Pizza and remaniscing about good times, a masked robber comes in, blows Moe’s brains out, steals the cash drawer, and runs out shooting five more people on the way out the door. This is what would be considered bad publicity, and well get you in a 3 to 5 year slander lawsuit, that could end up in you oweing for “emotional damages and loss of customers”, which usualy is a number well over half-a-million US dollars, and nearly all judges and juries answer in the business owner’s favor. In a story like this, you would want to change the name of the business to something fictional.

The worst case synario would be if you wrote about a shooting and than a shooting actually did happen. There was a case a few years back when such a thing occured and the court found the author “guilty of neglagence”. (Said he should have used some common sence before useing a real place-setting to set a murder in.) He got suspened prison time and owed not only the business owner, but also the murder victim’s family. (Family accused author of putting the idea in the murderer’s head and the court agreed.) While these type of lawsuits are not as common, they do happen, and the author is usualy found guilty.

[quote=katiemorton]

Since it’s fiction, that means there are no rules.
Run with it!

[/quote]

This is the kind of attitude that will get you in court quicker than you can blink. Remember, people are still people and most people do not like to be talked about behind their back and they hate it even more if you talk about them in the media. Remember too that every business has an owner, and anything you say about the business is taken as if you said it about the owner.

————-
Publishing Your NaNo Novel?
Do You and I Read the Same Books?
Want to Give Me a Reward for Reaching 50k?

What’s your take on this? I’d love to hear what you have to say about this post. Leave a comment and share your views!

————-
Copper Cockeral
Publishing Your NaNo Novel?
Do You and I Read the Same Books?
Want to Give Me a Reward for Reaching 50k?
*I Love Phookas!*
Got Writer’s BlocK? Kill It Today!
Need A Quiet Place To Write? Find Help Here!
Need Help Creating Characters? Check This Out!
Want to Do a Good Deed? Save the Goldeneagle.

Real Places in fictional stories. Good thing or bad?

Another question from NaNoWriMo forums:

[quote=purplejaz]For those of you who are using real cities
and towns as settings in your novels, will you be using actual businesses and such in your story? I’m setting my novel here, in Rapid City, South Dakota, and I wasn’t sure whether I should use the actual bars and stores and restaurants or make up fake ones for the purposes of the story. To be honest, I’m not sure that it even matters, but I’d love to hear how everyone else is approaching this. Do you use them as is, or create entirely new
ones? Or do you use the businesses that exist and change their names? I suppose if you’re going to go so far as to manufacture fake businesses you might as well just create an entire fictional
town, huh?

Anyways,
enough over-analyzing on my part…tell me what your
plans are!

-Brianna
———-

- Brianna

[/quote]

I write local for about 98% of all my books, articles, and stories. Very local. Most of my stories never leave the tiny 7 mile long, 3 mile wide beach-strip town I live in. And in most cases, they never even got 100 feet away from my front yard: I actualy dismissed the fact that my house was there and stuck a big manor-house in the same spot! Because I live here, real events… like Ice Storm ‘98 and the ravenges of Hurrinaine Bob in ‘91, actualy make it ito my books. I end up writing entire stories based on local events. In my stories you’ll often find the OOB Pier, Palace Playland, and Bill’s Pizza . . . let’s not forget the beach itself!Rarly do I write a story that does not include Old Orchard’s Old Orchard Beach. Odd thing is, some 400 miles to my North is Arcadia National Park and it’s famous Thunder Hole, and yet, in my stories, I’ve got the Thunder Hole note more than 500 yards away from the OOB Pier! And the White Mountains of New Hampshire? Yeah, I moved them too.

Now to answer your question: How to handle writing about real places:

A lot depends on one question:

Are you planning to publish this story, or is it just for your eyes only?

This is a very tricky area, that the best answer for is:

when in doubt -leave it out.

Why? Because while a few places may be glad for the free publicity, just as many will be quick to slap you with a lawsuit. I know that sounds silly, but it is a sad true fact that many writers learn this the hard way, the same day the sheriff knocks on their door and tells them they must appear in court. This type of lawsuit is far more common than a copyright infringment lawsuit, and rarly goes in the author’s favor.

Now you are asking: “Why would they sue me? If I owned their busines I’d love to be in that book!” …hhhhmm… step outside of yourself and think about it for a minute: Would you? Would you REALLY like it if you were reading a book one day and suddenly found that your home was in the book, and everything from sex to murder was going on in your kitchen?

A lot depends on the nature of what you write.

For example: If you MC says to another character: “I eat at Moe’s Pizza on Third St, rwice a week . . . you should go there, they make the best pizza!”Than the two go there and remanice good times over a mushroom and cheese deep dish. Foor something like this (which was actualy done: read -’Mystic Pizza’) You are not going to have any problems. In this case you may even wish to give the business owner a copy of the book and ask if they’d sell copies of it off their tables/counter. In a case like this, your book is good publicity for them, and they’d love to ppromote it.

Let’s consider instead this example: While eating a Moe’s Pizza and remaniscing about good times, a masked robber comes in, blows Moe’s brains out, steals the cash drawer, and runs out shooting five more people on the way out the door. This is what would be considered bad publicity, and well get you in a 3 to 5 year slander lawsuit, that could end up in you oweing for “emotional damages and loss of customers”, which usualy is a number well over half-a-million US dollars, and nearly all judges and juries answer in the business owner’s favor. In a story like this, you would want to change the name of the business to something fictional.

The worst case synario would be if you wrote about a shooting and than a shooting actually did happen. There was a case a few years back when such a thing occured and the court found the author “guilty of neglagence”. (Said he should have used some common sence before useing a real place-setting to set a murder in.) He got suspened prison time and owed not only the business owner, but also the murder victim’s family. (Family accused author of putting the idea in the murderer’s head and the court agreed.) While these type of lawsuits are not as common, they do happen, and the author is usualy found guilty.

[quote=katiemorton]

Since it’s fiction, that means there are no rules.
Run with it!

[/quote]

This is the kind of attitude that will get you in court quicker than you can blink. Remember, people are still people and most people do not like to be talked about behind their back and they hate it even more if you talk about them in the media. Remember too that every business has an owner, and anything you say about the business is taken as if you said it about the owner.

————-
Publishing Your NaNo Novel?
Do You and I Read the Same Books?
Want to Give Me a Reward for Reaching 50k?

What’s your take on this? I’d love to hear what you have to say about this post. Leave a comment and share your views!

————-
Copper Cockeral
Publishing Your NaNo Novel?
Do You and I Read the Same Books?
Want to Give Me a Reward for Reaching 50k?
*I Love Phookas!*
Got Writer’s BlocK? Kill It Today!
Need A Quiet Place To Write? Find Help Here!
Need Help Creating Characters? Check This Out!
Want to Do a Good Deed? Save the Goldeneagle.

Layout Editing Underway….Watch for Falling Widgets

Okay, this blog’s template is officialy back in “edit” mode. Expect colors, icons, and layouts to be changing at random for the next few hours (or days?)

What’s your take on this? I’d love to hear what you have to say about this post. Leave a comment and share your views!

————-
Copper Cockeral
Publishing Your NaNo Novel?
Got Writer’s BlocK? Kill It Today!
Need A Quiet Place To Write? Find Help Here!
Need Help Creating Characters? Check This Out!
Want to Do a Good Deed? Save the Goldeneagle.

Layout Editing Underway….Watch for Falling Widgets

Okay, this blog’s template is officialy back in “edit” mode. Expect colors, icons, and layouts to be changing at random for the next few hours (or days?)

What’s your take on this? I’d love to hear what you have to say about this post. Leave a comment and share your views!

————-
Copper Cockeral
Publishing Your NaNo Novel?
Got Writer’s BlocK? Kill It Today!
Need A Quiet Place To Write? Find Help Here!
Need Help Creating Characters? Check This Out!
Want to Do a Good Deed? Save the Goldeneagle.

Is there anything that you can’t say or do in your writing?

Some writers, well most writers, I think, find that they have these little quirks about what they can and can not write. Some things that are “taboo” in the writer’s personal life and often slip into the author’s writing, wither they realize it or not. Have you ever found this to be true of your own writings? Is there anything that you can not say or do in your own writing?

Here are a few things that I have noticed when I write:

I never use the names of any of my relatives:

(that’s 264 names I can not use… my mom is #8 of 12 kids, and each of them averages 12 kids… the most being 15 kids… those kids in turn average 8 kids each…. and I didn’t include the 4th and 5th generations, which would take the number well over a thousand… luckily for me, about half of those names come out of the Book of Mormon anyways, so I’d never think to use them as character names anyways.)

I never write porn

I have written sex scenes, but I edit every one of them out before the book gets published.

I never write any characters who drink alcohol.

I never write any characters who smoke.

I never use vulgar verbology. (sex talk, snot talk, fart talk, etc.)

The only swear words I ever write are: damn, hell, and bitch, and usualy these are used in correct context, meaning they are not being used as swear words.

————-
Publishing Your NaNo Novel?
Do You and I Read the Same Books?
Want to Give Me a Reward for Reaching 50k?

What’s your take on this? I’d love to hear what you have to say about this post. Leave a comment and share your views!

————-
Copper Cockeral
Publishing Your NaNo Novel?
Got Writer’s BlocK? Kill It Today!
Need A Quiet Place To Write? Find Help Here!
Need Help Creating Characters? Check This Out!
Want to Do a Good Deed? Save the Goldeneagle.

Is there anything that you can’t say or do in your writing?

Some writers, well most writers, I think, find that they have these little quirks about what they can and can not write. Some things that are “taboo” in the writer’s personal life and often slip into the author’s writing, wither they realize it or not. Have you ever found this to be true of your own writings? Is there anything that you can not say or do in your own writing?

Here are a few things that I have noticed when I write:

I never use the names of any of my relatives:

(that’s 264 names I can not use… my mom is #8 of 12 kids, and each of them averages 12 kids… the most being 15 kids… those kids in turn average 8 kids each…. and I didn’t include the 4th and 5th generations, which would take the number well over a thousand… luckily for me, about half of those names come out of the Book of Mormon anyways, so I’d never think to use them as character names anyways.)

I never write porn

I have written sex scenes, but I edit every one of them out before the book gets published.

I never write any characters who drink alcohol.

I never write any characters who smoke.

I never use vulgar verbology. (sex talk, snot talk, fart talk, etc.)

The only swear words I ever write are: damn, hell, and bitch, and usualy these are used in correct context, meaning they are not being used as swear words.

————-
Publishing Your NaNo Novel?
Do You and I Read the Same Books?
Want to Give Me a Reward for Reaching 50k?

What’s your take on this? I’d love to hear what you have to say about this post. Leave a comment and share your views!

————-
Copper Cockeral
Publishing Your NaNo Novel?
Got Writer’s BlocK? Kill It Today!
Need A Quiet Place To Write? Find Help Here!
Need Help Creating Characters? Check This Out!
Want to Do a Good Deed? Save the Goldeneagle.

The End of My NaNoWriMo Edition Blog…. but not good bye

Well, NaNoWriMo ends in 2 days, that means this blog’s NaNo Edition is also coming to an end . . . that does not mean the end of this blog though: it well just be reverting back to it’s regular none-NaNo layout, and will continue to be a blog following my off-season writing activities.

Next October (2008) the NaNoWriMo layout will return once again, and once again will return the rampant NaNoism hype.

So, watch for the new layout to appear in the next few days. I have no idea yet what it will look like, because I have just started thinking about what to do, just this moment.

Anyone got any ideas of what I should do? I’ll be creating a new header-banner, changing the icons, changing the layout, changing the colors, etc. So, if anyone has any ideas, feel free to leave your suggestions here.

What’s your take on this? I’d love to hear what you have to say about this post. Leave a comment and share your views!

————-
Publishing Your NaNo Novel?
Do You and I Read the Same Books?
Want to Give Me a Reward for Reaching 50k?

————-
Copper Cockeral
Publishing Your NaNo Novel?
Got Writer’s BlocK? Kill It Today!
Need A Quiet Place To Write? Find Help Here!
Need Help Creating Characters? Check This Out!
Want to Do a Good Deed? Save the Goldeneagle.

The End of My NaNoWriMo Edition Blog…. but not good bye

Well, NaNoWriMo ends in 2 days, that means this blog’s NaNo Edition is also coming to an end . . . that does not mean the end of this blog though: it well just be reverting back to it’s regular none-NaNo layout, and will continue to be a blog following my off-season writing activities.

Next October (2008) the NaNoWriMo layout will return once again, and once again will return the rampant NaNoism hype.

So, watch for the new layout to appear in the next few days. I have no idea yet what it will look like, because I have just started thinking about what to do, just this moment.

Anyone got any ideas of what I should do? I’ll be creating a new header-banner, changing the icons, changing the layout, changing the colors, etc. So, if anyone has any ideas, feel free to leave your suggestions here.

What’s your take on this? I’d love to hear what you have to say about this post. Leave a comment and share your views!

————-
Publishing Your NaNo Novel?
Do You and I Read the Same Books?
Want to Give Me a Reward for Reaching 50k?

————-
Copper Cockeral
Publishing Your NaNo Novel?
Got Writer’s BlocK? Kill It Today!
Need A Quiet Place To Write? Find Help Here!
Need Help Creating Characters? Check This Out!
Want to Do a Good Deed? Save the Goldeneagle.

Vampires

I found this question on NaNoWriMo Forums and felt I could not pass it by without throwing in my 2 cents:

[quote=Ginger Brown]Drinking blood when not a vampire. Just a good (if icky) source of iron, or would it actually do anything negative to you physically?
[/quote]

I’m wondering how you can drink blood and not be a vampire?

Vampires are a very real thing, though reality is far differant from the undead fictional ones. The dictionary (and medical doctors too) say that a vampire is anyone (or any thing –animals included) that makes a habit of drinking blood. It’s actualy one of the more common mental illnesses, and yes, the correct medical term for it is: vampirism. From what I’ve read, real vampires are anorexnics and they drink blood as a way to purge themselves, because the stomach can not tolerate blood in it. It is the constant vomitng that also causes them to be very thin, have red-tinted eyes and very pale skin (both symptoms of malnutrition).

Fictional vampires are a completely differant matter:

In ancient mythology a vampire was a winged, horned, beast with leathery skin and a rather dragon-like appearance that not only drank the blood of humans and cows, but also ate their flesh as well.

As the years passed the myth evolved to say that they were not demon beasts, but rather evil men that came back to life after dieing.

In the Gothic Revival Period (Late Victorian era), everything changed with the writing of the book Dracula. However, it wouldn’t be until Bela Lugosi’s movie version of Dracula, that the general public would start thinking of vampires as demon-possessed-undeads.

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Vampires

I found this question on NaNoWriMo Forums and felt I could not pass it by without throwing in my 2 cents:

[quote=Ginger Brown]Drinking blood when not a vampire. Just a good (if icky) source of iron, or would it actually do anything negative to you physically?
[/quote]

I’m wondering how you can drink blood and not be a vampire?

Vampires are a very real thing, though reality is far differant from the undead fictional ones. The dictionary (and medical doctors too) say that a vampire is anyone (or any thing –animals included) that makes a habit of drinking blood. It’s actualy one of the more common mental illnesses, and yes, the correct medical term for it is: vampirism. From what I’ve read, real vampires are anorexnics and they drink blood as a way to purge themselves, because the stomach can not tolerate blood in it. It is the constant vomitng that also causes them to be very thin, have red-tinted eyes and very pale skin (both symptoms of malnutrition).

Fictional vampires are a completely differant matter:

In ancient mythology a vampire was a winged, horned, beast with leathery skin and a rather dragon-like appearance that not only drank the blood of humans and cows, but also ate their flesh as well.

As the years passed the myth evolved to say that they were not demon beasts, but rather evil men that came back to life after dieing.

In the Gothic Revival Period (Late Victorian era), everything changed with the writing of the book Dracula. However, it wouldn’t be until Bela Lugosi’s movie version of Dracula, that the general public would start thinking of vampires as demon-possessed-undeads.

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NaNoWriMo Update: I WON!!!!

I just got this message from NaNoWriMo

You Won!
So it’s official.

Our word-counting robots have analyzed your November novel, and they’ve delivered their final, binding assessment: Winner.

You did it! You did it! You did it!

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NaNoWriMo Update: I WON!!!!

I just got this message from NaNoWriMo

You Won!
So it’s official.

Our word-counting robots have analyzed your November novel, and they’ve delivered their final, binding assessment: Winner.

You did it! You did it! You did it!

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My First Two Paragraphs

Here’s my first two paragraphs:

[quote=EelKat's First Two Paragraphs from The Ruby HummingBird]Remington B. Madison stopped to catch his breath. He looked behind him. There was no time to stop, he must keep going, and he must get out of this God forsaken place. They were coming. He could hear them coming. They were getting closer, closer. They’d be upon him at any moment. He had to think. He had to get out of here. He had to get back to the states. Must think fast. Why had he sent the artifacts to the museum already? He should have waited. He should have found out more about the natives first. Their traditions. Their gods. The birds.

The birds! He stopped thinking and started listening. A strange whirring sound was coming from the forest behind him. The sound of hundreds of tiny wings beating at lightening speeds. They were coming. They were coming for him. Thousands of tiny hummingbirds, with gleaming ruby wings, and shining beaks. He started running. Running faster and faster, farther and farther. His mind was racing. Must get away. Must escape. The birds. They had killed his porters. They had killed the rest of the dig team. They had killed the local native guides. There was no one left. Just him. He was the only one left. He must escape. He must get back home. He had to tell the world what he had found. He must warn them. Warn the world. No one must ever enter these woods again.[/quote]

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My First Two Paragraphs

Here’s my first two paragraphs:

[quote=EelKat's First Two Paragraphs from The Ruby HummingBird]Remington B. Madison stopped to catch his breath. He looked behind him. There was no time to stop, he must keep going, and he must get out of this God forsaken place. They were coming. He could hear them coming. They were getting closer, closer. They’d be upon him at any moment. He had to think. He had to get out of here. He had to get back to the states. Must think fast. Why had he sent the artifacts to the museum already? He should have waited. He should have found out more about the natives first. Their traditions. Their gods. The birds.

The birds! He stopped thinking and started listening. A strange whirring sound was coming from the forest behind him. The sound of hundreds of tiny wings beating at lightening speeds. They were coming. They were coming for him. Thousands of tiny hummingbirds, with gleaming ruby wings, and shining beaks. He started running. Running faster and faster, farther and farther. His mind was racing. Must get away. Must escape. The birds. They had killed his porters. They had killed the rest of the dig team. They had killed the local native guides. There was no one left. Just him. He was the only one left. He must escape. He must get back home. He had to tell the world what he had found. He must warn them. Warn the world. No one must ever enter these woods again.[/quote]

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Copper Cockeral
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The Dare Thread Strikes Again:

[quote=vitamin_D]

Dare #2:
Have a leopard who visits MC’s bedroom every Thursday night
-> Bonus points: MC always wakes up with different coloured toenails every Friday morning
->> Double points: the leopard invades MC’s dreams
->>> Triple points: if this weekly event is actually relevant to the main story[/quote]

OMG! This is so wierd, but I’ve got a Jaguar in my story, that visits my MC several times through out my story! And it is relevant to the story!

I couldn’t believe it when I found this dare, it’s so much like what I’m already doing!

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The Dare Thread Strikes Again:

[quote=vitamin_D]

Dare #2:
Have a leopard who visits MC’s bedroom every Thursday night
-> Bonus points: MC always wakes up with different coloured toenails every Friday morning
->> Double points: the leopard invades MC’s dreams
->>> Triple points: if this weekly event is actually relevant to the main story[/quote]

OMG! This is so wierd, but I’ve got a Jaguar in my story, that visits my MC several times through out my story! And it is relevant to the story!

I couldn’t believe it when I found this dare, it’s so much like what I’m already doing!

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Copper Cockeral
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Divas

A question a NaNoWriMo forums, which begs for an answer. I’ll not quote the entire question; only the part of it which is relevant to my answer.

How to describe a sex diva without losing a 12 rating?

I do question your use of the term sex diva, and than talking about a she with breasts…. raises a questioning eyebrow and asks:

Since when did divas become females or have big breasts? You do know that a diva is a type of drag queen don’t you?

A drag queen is a man (straight, not gay) who dresses like a woman, and looks like your every day woman.

A diva is a man who dresses like a woman, but looks like your “Dallas-star” type woman, and drips in glitter, make-up, and big hair wigs.

A transvestite can be either a drag queen or a diva, but they are gay not straight.

In recent years, the word diva has been used to describe pop-stars as well. While some glorify in being called this, the term was thrown at them, because they basicly looked like anorexnic twigs, dressed in sequins. Calling these stick-thin (and often flat-chested) teenaged pop singers, divas, was originally ment to imply that these girls looked more like men, than the men who tried to look like women did. Thus the term diva began to be used for girls as well as for men.

I would caution against ueing the term diva in the manner you are planning, unless your Lust is actually a man.

Anyways… back to your question:

I would personally use the word: voluptuous; such as: she was a voluptuous woman; or she has a voluptuous body.

All that said… I too have a character to represent “Lust”. Mine is a man, but not human, he’s sort of an other-worldly creature, and is usually seen in the presence of equally other-worldly women. He’s more sort of a “Cupid” figure, but he is never around “true-love”, just lust and false love. I love characters, that live in a human world, but are not human, which allows you to give them special powers and such.

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Divas

A question a NaNoWriMo forums, which begs for an answer. I’ll not quote the entire question; only the part of it which is relevant to my answer.

How to describe a sex diva without losing a 12 rating?

I do question your use of the term sex diva, and than talking about a she with breasts…. raises a questioning eyebrow and asks:

Since when did divas become females or have big breasts? You do know that a diva is a type of drag queen don’t you?

A drag queen is a man (straight, not gay) who dresses like a woman, and looks like your every day woman.

A diva is a man who dresses like a woman, but looks like your “Dallas-star” type woman, and drips in glitter, make-up, and big hair wigs.

A transvestite can be either a drag queen or a diva, but they are gay not straight.

In recent years, the word diva has been used to describe pop-stars as well. While some glorify in being called this, the term was thrown at them, because they basicly looked like anorexnic twigs, dressed in sequins. Calling these stick-thin (and often flat-chested) teenaged pop singers, divas, was originally ment to imply that these girls looked more like men, than the men who tried to look like women did. Thus the term diva began to be used for girls as well as for men.

I would caution against ueing the term diva in the manner you are planning, unless your Lust is actually a man.

Anyways… back to your question:

I would personally use the word: voluptuous; such as: she was a voluptuous woman; or she has a voluptuous body.

All that said… I too have a character to represent “Lust”. Mine is a man, but not human, he’s sort of an other-worldly creature, and is usually seen in the presence of equally other-worldly women. He’s more sort of a “Cupid” figure, but he is never around “true-love”, just lust and false love. I love characters, that live in a human world, but are not human, which allows you to give them special powers and such.

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Opium and Poppies

An interesting question found on NaNoWriMo forums, which I know the answer too:

[quote=kollos]What does opium/poppy syrup/laudanum taste like? I’ve heard it’s bitter, but is that true?
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Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.

–Oscar Wilde–

[/quote]

Poppies in large doses taste like buttered pinenuts (which taste is lot like salted sunflower seeds) . When I say large doses, I’m talking one cup of poppy seeds, a tablespoon of olive oil, and one cup of cooked pasta…. this is a single one person serving of “Poppy Seed Pasta”, something that I make several times a month. It gives off a very distinctive-sweet yet pungant scent…. uhm, a note of warning before you go out and make this recipe: you don’t want to eat this dish more than once or twice a month, as is can become highly addictive if you start eating it too often, and you’ll want to eat nothing else, for every meal, all day long … I know, it’s happened to me.

Mind you if you plan to start cooking, the way I do, with Poppy seeds, you’ll have to find someone that sells them in bulk and selling Poppy Seeds (even for cooking) is illegal in some places in the USA. Where it is legal to buy them, they tend to be expensive: $300 – $700 per pound, expensive. I have a local Korean grocery that sells huge bulk bags of Poppy Seeds, ($12 per pound) which are perfectly legal to buy here in Maine, however it is illegal to grow Poppies in your flower garden— go figure.

Opium, is nothing more than ground Poppy Seeds, so what the differance in taste from Poppy Seeds and Opium is, I do not know, I would assume that they were the same.

There is also Poppy Seed cake, Poppy Seed strusle, Poppy Seed muffins, and just eating Poppy Seeds raw like peanuts. and one weird recipe I had found was Poppy Seed Pie… uses 3 cups of Poppies! I collect Poppy Seed recipes. Poppies are my fave spice.

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Opium and Poppies

An interesting question found on NaNoWriMo forums, which I know the answer too:

[quote=kollos]What does opium/poppy syrup/laudanum taste like? I’ve heard it’s bitter, but is that true?
———-

Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.

–Oscar Wilde–

[/quote]

Poppies in large doses taste like buttered pinenuts (which taste is lot like salted sunflower seeds) . When I say large doses, I’m talking one cup of poppy seeds, a tablespoon of olive oil, and one cup of cooked pasta…. this is a single one person serving of “Poppy Seed Pasta”, something that I make several times a month. It gives off a very distinctive-sweet yet pungant scent…. uhm, a note of warning before you go out and make this recipe: you don’t want to eat this dish more than once or twice a month, as is can become highly addictive if you start eating it too often, and you’ll want to eat nothing else, for every meal, all day long … I know, it’s happened to me.

Mind you if you plan to start cooking, the way I do, with Poppy seeds, you’ll have to find someone that sells them in bulk and selling Poppy Seeds (even for cooking) is illegal in some places in the USA. Where it is legal to buy them, they tend to be expensive: $300 – $700 per pound, expensive. I have a local Korean grocery that sells huge bulk bags of Poppy Seeds, ($12 per pound) which are perfectly legal to buy here in Maine, however it is illegal to grow Poppies in your flower garden— go figure.

Opium, is nothing more than ground Poppy Seeds, so what the differance in taste from Poppy Seeds and Opium is, I do not know, I would assume that they were the same.

There is also Poppy Seed cake, Poppy Seed strusle, Poppy Seed muffins, and just eating Poppy Seeds raw like peanuts. and one weird recipe I had found was Poppy Seed Pie… uses 3 cups of Poppies! I collect Poppy Seed recipes. Poppies are my fave spice.

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What’s your take on this? I’d love to hear what you have to say about this post. Leave a comment and share your views!

————-
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Be Careful Out There

One of my friends on MySpace, just had a scary thing happen to him. I second his warning: BEWARE OF PEOPLE YOU MEET ONLINE, not everyone is a nice person.

—————– Bulletin Message —————–
From: Rick R. Reed
Date: Nov 25, 2007 10:34 PM

Check out my new blog posting to read about a pretty scary experience I had this weekend because of a MySpace “friend.” You really do have to know better…and an author who writes a book about internet predator really should be more careful who he lets into his “space.” A true story.

OMG! what a creepy person! This hasn’t happened to me on MySpace, but it did happen to me on eBay. I used to take on eBay forums a lot, than a flamer started harassing a lot of folks. Sending really freaky messages to about 20 or so folks (I was one of them). At first they were just lame one sentance smart mouthing things, I didn’t respond to him, and figured if I ignored him, he’d go away, but after about a week, he took the messages off the public forum and onto the private email… that’s when things got really scary. The emails went on for page after page, 2,000 or more words per email, and they said stuff like “I have pictures of your family” and “I know where you live” and “I’m going to show up at your front door when you least expect it”. I reported him to eBay, as did the other folks he threatened. eBay banned him and we thought that was the end of it.

Than a few months later he was back on eBay forums, and sending the messages and emails once again.eBay banned him again, and this time banned his ISP. That’s when eBay announced that they did a check and found out that this guy was useing 7 differant computers to send these messages from. They banned all 7 ISP addresses.

But that was not the end. This guy made one last realy freaky attack, that shock us rught to the bone. His next move was to hack into our eBay accounts, and than set out to bidding bids of $5,000 -$7,000 or more for all sort of weird items. I found out about this when PayPal contacted me and told me that an ISP adress from Nigeria, Africa had tried to withdraw funds from my bank account via PayPal, to pay for more than 20 eBay auctions for items variying in price from $2,000 – $7,000 each!!!! OMG! eBay launched an investigation and it was determined that this was once again, the same guy that had been harassing us before and they found him living in Californian.

Why did he do all this? I have no idea. As far as any of us victims, or eBay, or PayPal could determin, he had just picked our eBay usernames at random. None of us had ever talked to the guy prior to this event and none of us knew who he was or why he had set his attack on us.

Sionce that happened, I now cruise the internet allways looking over my shoulder.

What’s your take on this? I’d love to hear what you have to say about this post. Leave a comment and share your views!

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Be Careful Out There

One of my friends on MySpace, just had a scary thing happen to him. I second his warning: BEWARE OF PEOPLE YOU MEET ONLINE, not everyone is a nice person.

—————– Bulletin Message —————–
From: Rick R. Reed
Date: Nov 25, 2007 10:34 PM

Check out my new blog posting to read about a pretty scary experience I had this weekend because of a MySpace “friend.” You really do have to know better…and an author who writes a book about internet predator really should be more careful who he lets into his “space.” A true story.

OMG! what a creepy person! This hasn’t happened to me on MySpace, but it did happen to me on eBay. I used to take on eBay forums a lot, than a flamer started harassing a lot of folks. Sending really freaky messages to about 20 or so folks (I was one of them). At first they were just lame one sentance smart mouthing things, I didn’t respond to him, and figured if I ignored him, he’d go away, but after about a week, he took the messages off the public forum and onto the private email… that’s when things got really scary. The emails went on for page after page, 2,000 or more words per email, and they said stuff like “I have pictures of your family” and “I know where you live” and “I’m going to show up at your front door when you least expect it”. I reported him to eBay, as did the other folks he threatened. eBay banned him and we thought that was the end of it.

Than a few months later he was back on eBay forums, and sending the messages and emails once again.eBay banned him again, and this time banned his ISP. That’s when eBay announced that they did a check and found out that this guy was useing 7 differant computers to send these messages from. They banned all 7 ISP addresses.

But that was not the end. This guy made one last realy freaky attack, that shock us rught to the bone. His next move was to hack into our eBay accounts, and than set out to bidding bids of $5,000 -$7,000 or more for all sort of weird items. I found out about this when PayPal contacted me and told me that an ISP adress from Nigeria, Africa had tried to withdraw funds from my bank account via PayPal, to pay for more than 20 eBay auctions for items variying in price from $2,000 – $7,000 each!!!! OMG! eBay launched an investigation and it was determined that this was once again, the same guy that had been harassing us before and they found him living in Californian.

Why did he do all this? I have no idea. As far as any of us victims, or eBay, or PayPal could determin, he had just picked our eBay usernames at random. None of us had ever talked to the guy prior to this event and none of us knew who he was or why he had set his attack on us.

Sionce that happened, I now cruise the internet allways looking over my shoulder.

What’s your take on this? I’d love to hear what you have to say about this post. Leave a comment and share your views!

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Copper Cockeral
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Sending Christmas Gifts to Strangers Makes You Happy!

I just love reposting peeps wish lists and giving them better chances of getting gifts.

Is there anyone out there who’d like to send a random gift to my friend? Here’s his wish list if you’d like to send something.

—————– Bulletin Message —————–
From: Johnny Allen is hyper!
Date: Nov 20, 2007 8:47 PM

here is the link to my amazon wish list:

My Wish List

http://www.amazon.com/gp/registry/wishlist/9V64XLN30DHZ

What’s your take on this? I’d love to hear what you have to say about this post. Leave a comment and share your views!

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Sending Christmas Gifts to Strangers Makes You Happy!

I just love reposting peeps wish lists and giving them better chances of getting gifts.

Is there anyone out there who’d like to send a random gift to my friend? Here’s his wish list if you’d like to send something.

—————– Bulletin Message —————–
From: Johnny Allen is hyper!
Date: Nov 20, 2007 8:47 PM

here is the link to my amazon wish list:

My Wish List

http://www.amazon.com/gp/registry/wishlist/9V64XLN30DHZ

What’s your take on this? I’d love to hear what you have to say about this post. Leave a comment and share your views!

————-
Copper Cockeral
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I’m 66% fat?

Well, I took this quiz, but I do not think it very accurate, since I’m no where’s near fat, I just eat a wide variety of things in my diet (as a person should do.)

~~EK

—————– Bulletin Message —————–

From: Johnny Allen is hyper!
Date: Nov 20, 2007 9:13 AM

———————————————————–

Repost this quiz, replaceing the x’s with the ones of your own chooseing.

FAT SURVEY!
17 or under you’re anorexic, or close to it. 18-49 you’re normal. 50 or over sorry you’re fat.

things you like.

[x] water.

[x] orange juice.

[x]milk.

[x] soda

[ ] beer.

[ ] champagne.

[ ] any other alcohol.

[x] v8.

[x] icedtea.

[x] grape juice.

[x] cranberry juice.

[ ] apple juice.

[x] capri sun.

[x] hi-c.

[x] chocolate milk.

[x] strawberry milk.

[ ] coffee.

[x] lemonade.

Total so far: 13

[x] pizza.

[x] tacos.

[x] burritos.

[x] rice.

[x] beans.

[x] fries.

[x] lays.

[ ] baked lays.

[x] subway.

[x] burger king.

[x] mcdonald’s.

[x] wendy’s.

[ ] checkers.

[ ] ham.

[x] cheese.

[ ] hot dog/corn dog.

[ ] chicken.

[ ] turkey.

[ ] beef

Total so far: 25

[ ] rice crackers

[x] chocolate cake.

[x] vanilla cake.

[x] other kind of cake

[ ] banana

[x] strawberries.

[x] grapes.

[x] chocolate ice cream.

[x] vanilla ice cream.

[x] strawberry ice cream.

[x] spaghetti.

[x] spagettios.

[x] fetuccini.

[x] another kind of pasta.

Total so far: 37

[ ] sushi.

[x] shrimp.

[x] lobster.

[x] crab.

[ ] cheeseburger/burger

[x] veggieburger.

[x] cookie.

[ ] pork.

[x] snack cakes.

[x] popcorn.

[x] noodles.

[x] cereal.

[x] crackers.

[x]bread.

[ ]marshmallows.

[ ] oats.

[ ] grits.

Total so far: 49

[x] peanut butter

[x] peanuts.

[x] sunflower seeds.

[x] nuts.

[x] popsicles.

[x] lettuce.

[ ] eggs.

[ ] bacon.

[x]poptarts.

[x]doritos.

[ ]fried chicken.

Total so far: 57

[x] pudding.

[x]cheesecake.

[x]chocolate bar.

[x]granola bar.

[x] mango.

[x] pineapple.

[x] peach.

[ ] chicken sandwich.

[x] baked potato.

[x] other fruit.

Total: 66

repost putting “I am _% fat”

What’s your take on this? I’d love to hear what you have to say about this post. Leave a comment and share your views!

————-
Copper Cockeral
Publishing Your NaNo Novel?
Got Writer’s BlocK? Kill It Today!
Need A Quiet Place To Write? Find Help Here!
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Want to Do a Good Deed? Save the Goldeneagle.

I’m 66% fat?

Well, I took this quiz, but I do not think it very accurate, since I’m no where’s near fat, I just eat a wide variety of things in my diet (as a person should do.)

~~EK

—————– Bulletin Message —————–

From: Johnny Allen is hyper!
Date: Nov 20, 2007 9:13 AM

———————————————————–

Repost this quiz, replaceing the x’s with the ones of your own chooseing.

FAT SURVEY!
17 or under you’re anorexic, or close to it. 18-49 you’re normal. 50 or over sorry you’re fat.

things you like.

[x] water.

[x] orange juice.

[x]milk.

[x] soda

[ ] beer.

[ ] champagne.

[ ] any other alcohol.

[x] v8.

[x] icedtea.

[x] grape juice.

[x] cranberry juice.

[ ] apple juice.

[x] capri sun.

[x] hi-c.

[x] chocolate milk.

[x] strawberry milk.

[ ] coffee.

[x] lemonade.

Total so far: 13

[x] pizza.

[x] tacos.

[x] burritos.

[x] rice.

[x] beans.

[x] fries.

[x] lays.

[ ] baked lays.

[x] subway.

[x] burger king.

[x] mcdonald’s.

[x] wendy’s.

[ ] checkers.

[ ] ham.

[x] cheese.

[ ] hot dog/corn dog.

[ ] chicken.

[ ] turkey.

[ ] beef

Total so far: 25

[ ] rice crackers

[x] chocolate cake.

[x] vanilla cake.

[x] other kind of cake

[ ] banana

[x] strawberries.

[x] grapes.

[x] chocolate ice cream.

[x] vanilla ice cream.

[x] strawberry ice cream.

[x] spaghetti.

[x] spagettios.

[x] fetuccini.

[x] another kind of pasta.

Total so far: 37

[ ] sushi.

[x] shrimp.

[x] lobster.

[x] crab.

[ ] cheeseburger/burger

[x] veggieburger.

[x] cookie.

[ ] pork.

[x] snack cakes.

[x] popcorn.

[x] noodles.

[x] cereal.

[x] crackers.

[x]bread.

[ ]marshmallows.

[ ] oats.

[ ] grits.

Total so far: 49

[x] peanut butter

[x] peanuts.

[x] sunflower seeds.

[x] nuts.

[x] popsicles.

[x] lettuce.

[ ] eggs.

[ ] bacon.

[x]poptarts.

[x]doritos.

[ ]fried chicken.

Total so far: 57

[x] pudding.

[x]cheesecake.

[x]chocolate bar.

[x]granola bar.

[x] mango.

[x] pineapple.

[x] peach.

[ ] chicken sandwich.

[x] baked potato.

[x] other fruit.

Total: 66

repost putting “I am _% fat”

What’s your take on this? I’d love to hear what you have to say about this post. Leave a comment and share your views!

————-
Copper Cockeral
Publishing Your NaNo Novel?
Got Writer’s BlocK? Kill It Today!
Need A Quiet Place To Write? Find Help Here!
Need Help Creating Characters? Check This Out!
Want to Do a Good Deed? Save the Goldeneagle.

I’m 66% fat?

Well, I took this quiz, but I do not think it very accurate, since I’m no where’s near fat, I just eat a wide variety of things in my diet (as a person should do.)

~~EK

—————– Bulletin Message —————–

From: Johnny Allen is hyper!
Date: Nov 20, 2007 9:13 AM

———————————————————–

Repost this quiz, replaceing the x’s with the ones of your own chooseing.

FAT SURVEY!
17 or under you’re anorexic, or close to it. 18-49 you’re normal. 50 or over sorry you’re fat.

things you like.

[x] water.

[x] orange juice.

[x]milk.

[x] soda

[ ] beer.

[ ] champagne.

[ ] any other alcohol.

[x] v8.

[x] icedtea.

[x] grape juice.

[x] cranberry juice.

[ ] apple juice.

[x] capri sun.

[x] hi-c.

[x] chocolate milk.

[x] strawberry milk.

[ ] coffee.

[x] lemonade.

Total so far: 13

[x] pizza.

[x] tacos.

[x] burritos.

[x] rice.

[x] beans.

[x] fries.

[x] lays.

[ ] baked lays.

[x] subway.

[x] burger king.

[x] mcdonald’s.

[x] wendy’s.

[ ] checkers.

[ ] ham.

[x] cheese.

[ ] hot dog/corn dog.

[ ] chicken.

[ ] turkey.

[ ] beef

Total so far: 25

[ ] rice crackers

[x] chocolate cake.

[x] vanilla cake.

[x] other kind of cake

[ ] banana

[x] strawberries.

[x] grapes.

[x] chocolate ice cream.

[x] vanilla ice cream.

[x] strawberry ice cream.

[x] spaghetti.

[x] spagettios.

[x] fetuccini.

[x] another kind of pasta.

Total so far: 37

[ ] sushi.

[x] shrimp.

[x] lobster.

[x] crab.

[ ] cheeseburger/burger

[x] veggieburger.

[x] cookie.

[ ] pork.

[x] snack cakes.

[x] popcorn.

[x] noodles.

[x] cereal.

[x] crackers.

[x]bread.

[ ]marshmallows.

[ ] oats.

[ ] grits.

Total so far: 49

[x] peanut butter

[x] peanuts.

[x] sunflower seeds.

[x] nuts.

[x] popsicles.

[x] lettuce.

[ ] eggs.

[ ] bacon.

[x]poptarts.

[x]doritos.

[ ]fried chicken.

Total so far: 57

[x] pudding.

[x]cheesecake.

[x]chocolate bar.

[x]granola bar.

[x] mango.

[x] pineapple.

[x] peach.

[ ] chicken sandwich.

[x] baked potato.

[x] other fruit.

Total: 66

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I’m 66% fat?

Well, I took this quiz, but I do not think it very accurate, since I’m no where’s near fat, I just eat a wide variety of things in my diet (as a person should do.)

~~EK

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From: Johnny Allen is hyper!
Date: Nov 20, 2007 9:13 AM

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Repost this quiz, replaceing the x’s with the ones of your own chooseing.

FAT SURVEY!
17 or under you’re anorexic, or close to it. 18-49 you’re normal. 50 or over sorry you’re fat.

things you like.

[x] water.

[x] orange juice.

[x]milk.

[x] soda

[ ] beer.

[ ] champagne.

[ ] any other alcohol.

[x] v8.

[x] icedtea.

[x] grape juice.

[x] cranberry juice.

[ ] apple juice.

[x] capri sun.

[x] hi-c.

[x] chocolate milk.

[x] strawberry milk.

[ ] coffee.

[x] lemonade.

Total so far: 13

[x] pizza.

[x] tacos.

[x] burritos.

[x] rice.

[x] beans.

[x] fries.

[x] lays.

[ ] baked lays.

[x] subway.

[x] burger king.

[x] mcdonald’s.

[x] wendy’s.

[ ] checkers.

[ ] ham.

[x] cheese.

[ ] hot dog/corn dog.

[ ] chicken.

[ ] turkey.

[ ] beef

Total so far: 25

[ ] rice crackers

[x] chocolate cake.

[x] vanilla cake.

[x] other kind of cake

[ ] banana

[x] strawberries.

[x] grapes.

[x] chocolate ice cream.

[x] vanilla ice cream.

[x] strawberry ice cream.

[x] spaghetti.

[x] spagettios.

[x] fetuccini.

[x] another kind of pasta.

Total so far: 37

[ ] sushi.

[x] shrimp.

[x] lobster.

[x] crab.

[ ] cheeseburger/burger

[x] veggieburger.

[x] cookie.

[ ] pork.

[x] snack cakes.

[x] popcorn.

[x] noodles.

[x] cereal.

[x] crackers.

[x]bread.

[ ]marshmallows.

[ ] oats.

[ ] grits.

Total so far: 49

[x] peanut butter

[x] peanuts.

[x] sunflower seeds.

[x] nuts.

[x] popsicles.

[x] lettuce.

[ ] eggs.

[ ] bacon.

[x]poptarts.

[x]doritos.

[ ]fried chicken.

Total so far: 57

[x] pudding.

[x]cheesecake.

[x]chocolate bar.

[x]granola bar.

[x] mango.

[x] pineapple.

[x] peach.

[ ] chicken sandwich.

[x] baked potato.

[x] other fruit.

Total: 66

repost putting “I am _% fat”

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