If h is the difference in height between the two sides of the gap, θ is the angle of the exit’s slope, V is the velocity, and g is the standard acceleration of free fall at 9.8 m/s2, the required velocity would equal to square root of 9.8m/s2 *6m2 divided by 2(h-6tanθ)*cos2θ… We have now gotten
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Test Your Eco Might
Today I bring you this fun quiz from CNN, which talks about what we can do to keep our planet. I totally failed it, by the way. I think I got a 40%. If you take the quiz, you will see that a lot of it has to do with curbing our waste, in particular
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Read First Chapter of SAPPHIRE FLAMES
The copyedit has landed, so we are now clear to release the first chapter. Those of you who read the deleted beginning liked it so much, that we decided to rework it and keep it in the novel after all. Enjoy! Excerpt of SAPPHIRE FLAMES. PS. Thank you for being so kind in the comments
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Peeps
Our agent: “ps- you’ll all just have to o.d on extra Marshmallow Peeps and Cadbury Eggs to power you through… “ Now I want peeps. I have peeps in the pantry, but I can’t have them, because they are pure sugar. Mmm, peeps. I let the diet go in France, because France, and now
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Lessons From France
Things we learned in France. Paris is beautiful. The city is gorgeous. We had a chance to walk around a little, have breakfast in a little quiet cafe, have dinner in a restaurant away from touristy places, and watch people. French people are very nice. Everyone we met was very nice to us. We opened
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Edit Completed
Book turned in at 105,000 words and change. Supersick. Throat hurts. Been editing and watching Chinese historical dramas. Concubines are mean like snakes. In two days, flying to France. More when we come back.
WCB Day 5
Saturday word count starting: 105, 994 Saturday word count ending: 105, 700. Argh. Had to add things. I have this annoying feeling that I could either combine some scenes or take them out, but there isn’t enough brain power to process it. I R Dumb. So much to do this week. Need to get the
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Love the Grind
Remember when I wrote about loving the daily grind of your work? Nora Roberts loves it. I’m able to produce a lot of books because I work every day. Because I don’t go out to lunch or dinner, or to events, go shopping, have hobbies or socialize all that much. I don’t want to.I like
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WCB Day 3
Wednesday word count starting: 107,142. Wednesday word count ending: 106, 593. The cuts are going to get deeper now, since we’ve reached the middle of the book. But then we have to add more to the finale. Bleah. We’ve received an extremely long email from someone named Bill Turner. His email address is turnerspianos@gmail.com. Mr.
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WCB Day 2
Tuesday word count starting: 108, 273. Tuesday word count ending: 107, 142. Progress. Sadly Sgt. Munoz had to go. I really liked him, too. I wanted to address the censorship brigade that decided to complain about sex in the books. Not sure what possessed you to show your good china in public, but your comments
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WCB Day 1
Word Count Battle continues. Starting word count yesterday: 108, 456. Ending word count yesterday: 108, 131. No huge gains, because yesterday was the use contraction day and frequent word substitution day. You guys are so funny. “They are taking 8,000 words away from us! We’ve been robbed!” Publishers have set standards for their books. It
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Word Count
The edits for SAPPHIRE FLAMES have landed. The good news is that our editor liked the book. The bad news is that it’s 108,000 words and it needs to be closer to 100,000. In the mixed-bag news, there are no obvious places to make a large cut. Typically, the easiest way to make large cuts
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