There’s a bare minimum of what a story needs to accomplish: it has to allow the audience to suspend disbelief. A story doesn’t even have to be entertaining to accomplish this. Entertaining is good, thought-provoking is good, original is good…but first, the story has to let you believe in it before it can do anything […]
Another one of those “everybody knows who X is” moments when nobody knows what you’re talking about. Sheesh. Mojo Nixon tells it like it is, baby. And the lyrics.
For Guinea pigs, being as inconvenient to eat as possible is a viable survival strategy. This is why our peeg will immediately climb under the nearest piece of furniture available — not because he hates Lee.
You know you’re a tech editor when you say, “Oh, it’s normal. That’s why it’s so screwed up.*” *MS style format.
So the murder’s name is Dave, who will be, in this story, the smiling boss’s boss. I’ve just started typing the first scene when this techno song comes on, and the sample chants, “I don’t think this is a good idea, Dave.” And, “I’m really much better now.”
On average, I have one hiccup per day, which occurs in mid-afternoon. I know this, because the woman who sits next to me says, “Pass me the alcohol” every time I do it.
Ah, beautiful day. We should go out for a walk. Ray? Wanna go out for a walk? Yes! Let’s go! Out the door and down the block, and then I notice she’s got this huge hole in her pants. That she cut in her pants. With the scissors she supposedly couldn’t find. March march march
This is definitely a ramble… As usual, I have an ongoing project to try to improve my writing. More or less currently, I’m reading the Write Great Fiction series: Plot & Structure: (Techniques and Exercises for Crafting a Plot That Grips Readers From Start to finish), by James Scott Bell Write Great Fiction: Characters, Emotion
Something important to keep in mind as a parent (or any other kind of authority figger): nobody trusts the Wizard of Oz until after he admits he’s a humbug.
Hachez Cocoa d’Arriba, Strawberry & Pepper, 77% cocoa, “Suprerior Mild Dark Chocolate.” The other chocolate I had with pepper in it, I forget which brand, was somewhat of a joke. There were little bits of lemon rock candy in it, fer gosh sake, and I never did run across anything remotely peppery. On the other
