'Potential'
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
ick. I was up too late writing and am now racing around my apartment like a madwoman trying to get my shit together to get to work.
I feel so much better today. Six more weeks of writing, and then Sam gets sent to my agent. Six weeks. then new book in hands! Well. New manuscript. I keep hoping and hoping. And hoping.
Hope with me!
Crazy Polish Roommate and her Mother frequently complimented me on my large forehead. And in Peru people stopped me in the street to compliment me on my nose (one even needed to find a translator).
Pretty is weird.
Winners of the Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest of bad writing: [link]
"Die, commie pigs!" grunted Sergeant "Rocky" Steele through his cigar stub as he machine-gunned the North Korean farm animals.
I just pray the fashion for women to shave the first inch of their hairlines off doesn't come back, EVER.
As in most things depilatory, I'm ahead of the game. I mean, if I shaved an inch back, I'd be in sixhead territory.
My new favorite blog.
I like that blog too!
Gudanov - Jul 31, 2008 10:46:48 am PDT #706 of 3288
I've discovered a couple of amusing blogs recently.
Indexed, commentary expressed in diagrams on index cards.
And The "Blog" of "Unnecessary" Quotation Marks.
I have a high enough forehead naturally, I don't need to shave anything to make it more so. I've worn bangs most of my life to cover it, otherwise I think I look like I have a receding hairline.
From the bad writing contest - for some reason I thought Nilly might appreciate this:
Creeping slowly over the hill, the sun seemed to catch the small village nestled in the valley by surprise, which is a bit unusual really, as you'd think that something with a diameter of 865,000 miles and a surface temperature of 5780 degrees Kelvin, and which is more normally seen from 93,000,000 miles away, wouldn't be able to creep anywhere, let alone catch anything by surprise.
This made me laugh:
As usual, Mr. Riddle came home from work, and, as usual, took the toy poodle, Fluffy, out for her walk, and, as usual, Fluffy "did her business" at the usual places, first at the bush, second, on the sidewalk, and third, in the grass, so that there, on the pavement, was evidence of Fluffy's evening sojourn: Mr. Riddle's little poodle's middle piddlle puddle.
That reminds me of this writing assignment that was read on, of all places, Car Talk.
The internet provides...
In-class Assignment for Wednesday
Today we will experiment with a new form called the tandem story. The process is simple. Each person will pair off with the person sitting to his or her immediate right. One of you will then write the first paragraph of a short story. The partner will read the first paragraph and then add another paragraph to the story. The first person will then add a third paragraph, and so on back and forth. Remember to reread what has been written each time in order to keep the story coherent. The story is over when both agree a conclusion has been reached.
The result... [link]