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
The rider and the ridden
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
It’s too dark out to see the rainbows anyway
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.
Not yet
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.
Hum a happy song with your Happy Meal…
I think I’m gong to start doing this at home before I start doing it in restaurants.
In training
This is about the time that I remember we’ll be leaping forward to Daylight Saving Time in two weeks, and that I should try to start going to bed earlier and getting up earlier now, so it doesn’t hit me all at once.
(I hate getting up earlier.)
Some go into training for the Olympics. I go into training for Daylight Saving Time.
Good tools
Genius.
Of course the tools matter. But in the end, it’s not about the tools.