No Homer On Your I-Pad, Please
Intersting article about St. John’s College’s struggle to keep actually books in the classroom. Article here. Comments
Long Live Libraries!
If you love libraries or are in the mood for a bit of humor, check this out. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7AhSxoVmZQs&feature=email It’s delightful and funny and really made me laugh. But for some inexplicable reason, in the middle of the song at the end, I burst into tears. God bless librarians! comments
Tornado One Turns Twelve
Happy Birthday, Orville Evander Wright Comment
Testing…Testing…
New website flourishing apace. You can see it here. (Behind me, Juss just declared, “And with his glasses off, he was a chick magnet!” Where does he get these things?) Comments
Bad Ass Faeries Goes Live!
The Bad Ass Faeries Anthologies now have their own website! The site includes info about the series, the authors and artists, and info on submitting to the next volume: Bad Ass Faeries: It’s Elemental. It also has a blog. Our first entry is by series editor in chief Danielle Ackley-McPhail. You can read it here:…
Website creeps snail-like toward being useful
A little more work done on my website today. Special treat for anyone who read Prospero In Hell and wondered what happen next, (if such a person exists). The Prospero’s Daughter series page includes the first chapter of Prospero Regained. Comments
Ah, Bureaucrats
While skating today, I noticed that they had opened a new parking lot that will soon replace the lot where we now park to get access to the W&O (an old railroad that has been paved and turned into a bike trail.) It looked good. There are a number of logistic problems with the old…
Overheard at the Wright Household
At the pool the other day, a child asked me if the Cherubim talked with sign language. I explained, not really. He then asked why he couldn’t talk. Justinian, who was present turned around and answered: “That’s my brother. He’s dumb…as in mute.” I was amused that he knew the distinction between the two meanings of…
Wright’s Writing Corner: Ping-Pong Dialogue
Ping Pong Dialogue Several people have asked me for a post on writing dialogue. This is not it. But it is a post on writing a specific kind of dialogue, a kind I only recently discovered. Ping-Pong Dialogue: Have some dialogue go back and forth quickly, taking less than one line on the page –…
Hmm…
Still a few more kinks to work out.