On November 26, 2005, I posted a blog entry entitled Openingitis in which I whined about how hard it is to write the opening scene of a book. I had stumbled across one of my favorite openings, from a book I’d set aside because westerns were dead. It totally, totally rocks my world this book—Taming [...]
Archive | April, 2007
Left Behind…with kids
It seems like half the world’s off to RT or off preparing for RT. I, of course, am left behind. And to top it off, we’re not quite halfway through April vacation. My. Kids. Are. Driving. Me. Mad. :bang: How can two children even be awake enough to play Star Wars Battlefront at 7am, never [...]
The education of a child
We were in the grocery store this afternoon and I had a “Mmm…Twinkies!” moment. The short kid asked what a Twinkie was. GASP! How could the short kid be six and a half and not have had a Twinkie? (The tall kid didn’t like the one he had when he was like…3, and he has [...]
Sunshine, suds and scratches…oh my
We went from snow to high 70s, with mid-80s forecast for today. Goodbye winter, hello summer! Spring? We don’t need no steenkin spring. After having neglected it slightly, I was forced to give my rosa rugosa a drastic trimming this weekend. If you’ve ever done that, you know I now bear a strong resemblance to [...]
Hot dayum
At long last, Mrs. Giggles had reviewed one of my books. (I might have helped it along.) And…ohmigod! 87! Here’s that little intro bit she does (because I want to keep it and those intro bits go away with her next update): Nicely paced with some of the coolest action scenes ever, plus with a [...]
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