Typing in Wheaties for a search on athletes on their cereal boxes. Typed in Whaties instead, and now I want to write a story about Whaties, the cereal made from who knows what.
Live Wire interviews George Saunders
This last weekend, I listened to the radio show Live Wire on my local NPR affiliate. There was a good interview with George Saunders and his path to being a writer:
Live Wire Episode #357: George Saunders, Jay Larson, Jenny Bruso, and Horse Feathers
Just say no to the nuggets!
(In fact, time has you)
Post-retirement options for Olympic athletes
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?
Spaghetti! Yum.
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 *
In Like a Lion
March came in like a lion.
It doesn’t matter how it goes out. It will have eaten you by then.
National Grammar Day is March 4
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.
Refined (Or Not)
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.
How to write a novel
You never learn how to write a novel. You only learn how to write the novel that you’re writing.
― Gene Wolfe