NaNo Wri Mo Snafus
With the help of my spellchecker, I just wrote the line: Rachel struggled not to burst into historical laughter.
Overheard at the Wright Household
Mom: "Orville, can you carry out the boxes in the hallway and put them with the recycling stuff outside for the trash?" Orville: "Okay….I can't get the door open." Mom: "Just a second." Orville: "One Chimpansee." (the lenght of a second. My great uncle counted them in chimpansees. So do we. That's four generations of…
NaNo Wri Mo
So…who is doing NaNo Wri Mo and what is your WIP? I am not doing it, but I am making an extra push on my current project: The Unexpected Enlightenment of Rachel Griffin: Book Two–The Raven, The Elf, and Rachel.
Wonderful Christian Lecture–Saturday, November 10th at 2:30
Our church is sponsoring a lecture on Saturday, November 10th at 2:30 at the Chantilly Regional Library. The subject is: Defeating Violence Through Prayer. The lecturer is: John Quincy Adams, III Normally, I would not make a big deal about a lecture, but this one is very special to me. In our…
Excerpt from The Raven, The Elf, and Rachel
The three children: Rachel Griffin, her friend Sigfried Smith, and his girlfriend, Fearless Girl Report Valerie Fox, have just watched a group of adults repair a broken stone building with magic. Wow!” Valerie snapped a last picture. “Why don’t they do repairs this way after storms and earthquakes? That would speed up disaster recovery more…
Dr. Doom Returns!
The lost Victor Von Doom doll has been found and reunited with his missing boot. He is back in his cubby, and no longer striving to take over the world. The world is safe once again.
Appearing today! — At the Baltimore Science Fiction Club Roundtable
FANTASTIC HEROINES OF SCI FI & FANTASY Authors Brenda Clough, Mindy Klasky, L. Jagi Lamplighter and Jeri Smith-Ready will talk about the heroine in literature, both in their own works and those that have influenced them. * *Colleen Cahill, Library of Congress Recommending Officer for Fantasy and Science Fiction, will moderate what is sure to…
The Strange Case of the Vanishing Dresses
When I was young, there was a cut of dress that had been around for about 50 year or so. People wore them. You saw them in old pictures. They were popular in a longer form during the Edwardian period. I saw them in real life. I saw them in photographs. I saw them on…
Overheard at the Wright Household
Juss and John talking in Character. Juss is moderating. In this scene, he is running Bob the Plesiosaur, the friend of John's character, Abednego Blaze. Bob is always very polite to his master, but his master tends to babble on and on and on… Bob, in his gentle voice: "Please be quite, Sir." Abednego: "I'm…
Overheard at the Wright Household
Juss, after hearing that I failed in my quest to become a lucid dreamer because whenever weird things happened in my dreams, I thought it was a roleplaying game. "No offense, Mom, but you're weird." Considering the rest of my life, one cannot help wondering what his basis of comparison is.