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Text Box: Won’t be long now! National Novel Writing Month begins November 1, and ends the 30th of November. You have that one month to write 50,000 words to accomplish your goal. Sign up at their website: Join the area in which you live, and you will have your own support group, and a place to meet and write. Also a time to meet new people with the same interests, share ideas, and have a good time. ***

Text Box: Having trouble getting started with your novel? Have you thought of trying software to help? Dramatica Pro asks questions about your character and plot and helps streamline your story. It has been getting some good press and revues. $199.95 NEWNOVELIST is another software program to help organize and get your story into print. $54.99

Text Box: YWRITER is a free download that can be used to help create “scenes”, then organize them into a plot. SONAR is another free program that is used to track your submissions. Both YWRITER and SONAR, plus other free software downloads for writers is available at

Text Box: of saying that everything is stored on the internet, with only 256MB of memory and a 4 GB flash drive internally. It uses the Open Office software for its’ database and word processing. The CherryPal should be available now on the company website, and will be on in September. Another marketing feature is that the little box only uses 2 watts of power. It has a 5121E processor and integrated graphics to help with the low power consumption.

Text Box: There is a new desktop computer that has just become available called, “CherryPal”. An enticing price tag of $249, and the small size, about that of a paperback book, could make this a very popular computer! Even though it is barebones and weighs in at 10 ounces, it packs a lot of punch. There is no operating system. There is an embedded form of Debian Linux, but it is invisible to the user. The main operating system is a Firefox browser window. It uses “cloud-based” storage, another way

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Text Box: 3/4 cup yellow or white cornmeal 1 - 8 oz pkg grated mozzarella cheese 2 Tbsp Chopped chives 1 tsp salt 1 tsp ground pepper *** Pulse first 4 ingredients in a food processor, just until corn is coarsely chopped. Stir together flour and next 5 ingredients in a large bowl: Stir in corn mixture just until dry ingredients moistened.

Text Box: Spoon 1/8 cup batter for each cake onto a hot, lightly greased griddle or large non-stick skillet to form 2” cakes. (Do not spread or flatten cakes) Cook cakes 3 - 4 minutes or until tops are covered with bubbles and edges look cooked. Turn and cook other side 2 - 3 minutes. Makes about 3 dozen

Text Box: I found this recipe in a cooking magazine and thought it was too good not to share, especially when the fresh corn is now available. I started off making a third of the recipe, now I’m up to two-thirds. You can re-heat the cakes, or store the batter. 2 1/2 cups fresh corn kernels (about 5 ears) 3 large eggs 3/4 cup milk 3 Tbsp butter, melted 3/4 cup flour

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