For those of you who missed the meeting that was held in the computer room at 3:30 on Wednesday, November 29, 2006, here is a short overview of what we talked about.
We held a vote and are currently going with a white hoodie. If 30 or more of us buy one, the price will be cheaper, so pre-pay for yours before Winter Break! Matt’s
ThermoNuclear Warhead idea will be located on the front in a pocket size, and my
outline for the scroll and dragon idea will be located on the back in a large size.
Mr. Gifford has given us many goals that we should try to obtain. By the end of this year, every Magic Pens member should write at least two, complete, 1,000-2,000 words long stories that take place in our newly-created world. Every Sunday, each member should post how many words they have written for that week, and what they have read for that entire week. To improve your writing, write for at least 15 minutes each day! It doesn’t matter what it is…just write something!
EXAMPLE: This week I wrote 500 words and read 3 chapters in Some Random Book by Some Random Author.
Our created world is basically complete. The storyline is rough and basically allows you to create just about anything. The story so far is that a league of aliens called the Qurks have broken through their ‘dimension barriers’ to reach Earth. Copper is rare on their planet, and they are enslaving humans to mine for copper. While they were ‘breaking dimension barriers’ they allowed mythical beasts and magic to spread over Earth, and ‘normal’ technology has been nearly destroyed. As Mr. Gifford said, “There might be a teleporter, but to get to it, you have to ride a horse.” Vampires come into the story somewhere… Do not include absolutes such as “always” and “never,” but feel free to create aliens or mythical animals and creatures. Start writing your two 1,000-2,000 word stories! Check out
Matt’s Google Page for more information on Our World.
Members that have not posted anything on their blog have been deleted.
Voting for Magic Pens officers will take place in December. If you would like to run for a position, include a short post on why you would like to be an officer and why we should vote for you on your blog. Officers will read stories that members have written that take place in Our World and put any information they gave onto
Matt’s Google Page.
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Nice job. I couldn’t have said it better myself.
Hey, very nice over-view. You also seem to be pretty HTML-savvy. We’ll have to see about getting you to work with me on the Magic Pens web-page. I might also steal your over-views for a little ‘Meetings’ section, with your permission of course.
Sure, I don’t mind.
Noelle, my page looks awesome! I even changed the colors successfully, so now everything matches. By the way, how do you change that link from “read the rest of this entry” to something else? And what about those cool pictures beside your posts?
To change the “Read the rest of this entry” thing, click on the Post Template page of your Theme Editor. Without scrolling you should see something like this…
<?php the_content(‘<p class=”serif”>Read the rest of this entry »</p>’); ?>
near the middle of the box. (Remember, don’t scroll!) Just change the “Read the rest of this entry” part.
For the picture before each post, click on the Main Template in your theme editor. You should see something like this….
<h2><a href=”<?php the_permalink() ??” rel=”bookmark” title=”Permanent Link to <?php the_title(); ?>”>’
Just type
“img src=URL OF PICTURE GOES HERE”
inbetween brackets. (Brackets are these < > and leave the quotation marks.) This should go right after what I typed up there. ^