Writes all the things. Most of the things never write back.
Iditarod scandal yet-to-come: when the winning team is discovered to have been made up of Winter-Olympics-athletes-turned-werehuskies.
“There’s no rule against it, because we didn’t think it was possible, “ one frustrated Iditarod official explained.
Another sports doping mystery: Who slipped the painkiller to the Iditarod dogs?
This sounds good, but people apparently have very different inspirations about what to do after “a long night of drinking.”
Mine generally do not involve sharp knives and precise measurement and timing.
Me: * goes to bed *
March came in like a lion.
It doesn’t matter how it goes out. It will have eaten you by then.
National Grammar Day comes in two days. Have you sent your National Grammar Day cards? Bought your National Grammar Day decorations? Planned your National Grammar Day banquet? Don’t leave these things to the last minute and wind up in line with all the other desperate National Grammar Day shoppers.
A movie trailer has a character described as “pure evil.”
Now I want to write a character of impure evil. She’ll kill you, but you can fool around a little first.
You never learn how to write a novel. You only learn how to write the novel that you’re writing.
― Gene Wolfe
The difficulty lies in learning that we ourselves encompass forces equally great. We say, “I will,” and “I will not,” and imagine ourselves (though we obey the orders of some prosaic person every day) our own masters, when the truth is that our masters are sleeping. One wakes within us and we are ridden like beasts, though the rider is but some hitherto unguessed part of ourselves.
― Gene Wolfe, Shadow & Claw
So far, the beginning of March looks much like the end of February. Where are the unicorns and rainbows? Not to mention the leprechauns.
Oh, wait. I just did mention the leprechauns.
Did you ever take a calendar off the wall to look up some future dates, think “Hey, it’s ALMOST March; in a little more than twelve hours,” put the calendar back on the wall set to March, and then take it back down and hang it back up set to February, because IT ISN’T MARCH YET?
It’s probably just me.
I think I’m gong to start doing this at home before I start doing it in restaurants.