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Date A Girl Who Reads…
This was sent to me in an email, complete with pictures. The person I got it from also learned about it through an email. As a result, I don’t know if these pictures belong to the author or not, but I think they are beautiful and add much to the words, so I’m leaving them. If you know who the painters are, please let me know and I’ll add a caption to each. At the moment, the links that the pictures include tell me nothing. Date a girl who reads. Date a girl who spends her money on books instead of clothes. She has problems with closet space because she…
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56 similies to make your English teacher laugh so hard they cry…
I found this at this blog. Her eyes were like two brown circles with big black dots in the center. He was as tall as a 6′3″ tree. Her face was a perfect oval, like a circle that had its two sides gently compressed by a Thigh Master. From the attic came an unearthly howl. The whole scene had an eerie, surreal quality, like when you’re on vacation in another city and Jeopardy comes on at 7:00 p.m. instead of 7:30. John and Mary had never met. They were like two hummingbirds who had also never met. She had a deep, throaty, genuine laugh, like that sound a dog makes…
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Writing, Life, and Questions
A couple of things, dear readers… November has snuck up on me this year. Normally, I’m doing NaNoWriMo at this point. I haven’t missed one since college. However, I don’t know that I’ll do NaNo this year. I think taking my focus off of what I’m doing to write 50,000 words (which turns into whole other books I need to finish and edit) is really doing myself a disservice this year. I don’t need another book in my head. I need to finish the one that I’m editing now and get the darn thing sent off already. If, instead of doing NaNo, I focus on editing (rewrites, the bane of…
