An artichoke drabble!

(loving erika madly)

Thanks! I love them.(And it was a real pleasure to watch one grow. Mom had one at her old house.)

Bouncing...

I got two good reviews for my novella in the anthology that's coming out March 5 (Wicked Women Whondunit)! What with the sinus infection from hell and real-life stuff making me crazy-busy, it was very nice news to get, and I just wanted to share.

Loving the drabbles. Susan, yours really hit me. I need to do this topic, but I'm soooo stuffy and headachey.

Bounces off, trying not to sneeze...

That's great news, Amy!

I want to do a happier heart drabble before the week is out, but I'm waiting for inspiration to strike.

Good news!

I've been re-reading some of my writing and editing guides, trying to distill common things that I think are helpful. There's the usual "avoid adverbs" and the like.

I'm also reading a Terry Pratchett and having a lovely time, when the editor's eye twitches and glances over his technique. Adverbs! People say things sourly and snidely and firmly. And he does things like "said Nanny" instead of "Nanny said," something else one of my books got all twitchy and prohibitionary about.

Editor's Eye is baffled and suspecting it's one of those "If you're so-and-so you can get away it" things. Rebel's Eye is snickering like a mad thing.

Okay, thanks deb. I probably have a little more to say about it, anyway, mebbe I can add some punch. I think I want to end with the chorus though. Think it would still work if I kicked the opening chorus, added a verse? I gotta think about it.

The hearts drabbles are great! Especially erika's, because nobody expects artichokes!

What does it say about me that it was my first thought?

That you have a more peaceful life than others.

Uh, I'm thinking that's a continuum, but maybe in cardiac terms, for sure.