Electron Boy Rocks!
This really made me cry. Oh, wow! All the impressive people who participated in this. The Make A Wish Foundation is really something! http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2011740342_electronboy30m.html
First Conversation Where Chinese Was Clearer Than English
Our Princess played at a piano recital yesterday. She’s only been playing a short while, but she seems naturally good at it.The teacher had her do something quite difficult. She had a little trouble with it, but performed cheerfully. Afterwards, I was helping her with homework and she asked for an envelope, telling me that the…
Google-Man!
Has Google gone all Pac-Man for everyone? Or is it just me?
Prospero In Hell!
Courtesy of the multi-talented cdenmier
Sigh
Wanted to post the cover of Prospero In Hell, but can’t figure out how to upload a PDF file to the scrapbook. Waiting to see if I can get a JPEG.
Wright’s Writing Corner: Romantic Tension…kind of
The next tip from my list of Writing Tips is: Romantic Tension: To make a character seem attractive to another character (at least to women) list a character trait of character A and an emotional reaction to this trait from character B). (example: she had an air of mystery that intrigued him. Or, her…
Anonymous Gift
I just got a note from LiveJournal that someone gave me the gift of two months of LJ. I have no idea what this means or who did this…but if you–the mysterious giver–are reading this, I’d like to say: Thank you!!!!!
Wright’s Writing Corner: Writing Tips–Measurement By Example
Measurements by example: Tall as a man, rather than six feet high, where applicable. Hmm. I have promised to write a post on each of my on each of my Writing Tips. Not sure I have a whole lot to say about this one, though. It is pretty straightforward. This idea was suggested by…
Natural Speech School
I felt that the school of writing represented by the Society for the Redemption of Adverbs needed a name. After all, thanks to Mosellegreen, our opposition has a name: The Heming Way. So…we are now the Natural Speech School…because real people use adverbs in real speech. We even have an anthem, from which we get our…
Iron Man 2 — Wow!
‘Nuff said.