…by Maureen Johnson. “You mean . . . like Luke and Leia in Star Wars?” “What’s Star Wars?” she asked. “Star Wars!” “I don’t watch much television. What is that? A reality show? Like American Idol?” “It’s a movie!” I exclaimed. “A very famous movie. Darth Vader, the Dark Side, the Death Star, may the […]
Christine Lavin throws a twist in the old mother-daughter conflict.
A Beatles-Nine Inch Nails mashup. This works absurdly well. Warning: Language.
Here I am, writing a fight scene where none of the characters are working together, and the only thing that’s saving them is that the bad guys are using a new tactic they don’t know how to take advantage of, either. And I’m thinking, “You know, I know exactly how they should have handled this…because
A priest, a doctor, and an engineer were waiting one morning for a particularly slow group of golfers. The engineer fumed, “What’s with those guys? We must have been waiting for fifteen minutes!” The doctor chimed in, “I don’t know, but I’ve never seen such inept golf!” The priest said, “Here comes the greens keeper.
The other Apple guy has fun at other people’s expense.
Johnette Napolitano. What a good song to get stuck in your head 🙂
I’ll be working on the first draft of the for-hire YA starting tomorrow. We’ve agreed on a plot, characters, I’ve done the outline and arranged the scenes for more action, etc., which will make this the most disciplined project I’ve worked on, bar none, and I haven’t started actually writing yet. I will probably not
On the way back from Dave’s, Ray and I stopped to watch fireworks go off. Eventually, Ray said, “Mom, I’m bored and tired. I’m done with fireworks.” “Awww…” “Mom.” So we went. But as we were driving, she announced all the fireworks she saw as “pinalleys,” as in, “That was a beautiful pinalley!” Finally, about
