I guess you would have to buy the book to find out.
Thanks, Jude!
Thursday, November 8, 2007
Wednesday, November 7, 2007
Monday, October 29, 2007
We interupt this blog to bring you...
30 Second Tales of Terror (by famous writers no less)
Only a good writer can tell a 30 second scary story. So, for Halloween, listen to the petite tales in a darkened room with only the monitor's light for comfort.
Here's my contribution to really short scary stories:
It was a dark and stormy night as Mr. Collinsworth signed and concluded his will. He thought he heard the floor squeak but decided it was his over active imagination. Suddenly a quick and decisive blow to the head ended Mr. Collinsworth's life prematurely.
When I arrived at the Estate the next morning I felt a cold chill run down my spine. This was the room my unsuspecting Uncle had drew his last breath. There were still spots of blood on his desk. The butler was being interrogated by the police as I walked about the gloomy study. Just then a blood curdling scream came from the kitchen where the maid was found lying in a pool of blood. I ran back to the study only to find the, now murdered, butler lying limply across a divan. Being terrified by the sudden deaths, I began to panic. The detective told me, as I stood shaking in my shoes, that the maid and butler had been listed in the will my Uncle had just completed. The only other names listed were me and a long lost cousin! I had been studying my shoes in order to avoid the detective's insinuating glare. To my shock, when I looked up, no one was there. Where had the detective gone? For that matter where is everyone else? They had just been here. I could hear the floor squeak behind me and I ran to the now locked front door.
Only a good writer can tell a 30 second scary story. So, for Halloween, listen to the petite tales in a darkened room with only the monitor's light for comfort.
Here's my contribution to really short scary stories:
It was a dark and stormy night as Mr. Collinsworth signed and concluded his will. He thought he heard the floor squeak but decided it was his over active imagination. Suddenly a quick and decisive blow to the head ended Mr. Collinsworth's life prematurely.
When I arrived at the Estate the next morning I felt a cold chill run down my spine. This was the room my unsuspecting Uncle had drew his last breath. There were still spots of blood on his desk. The butler was being interrogated by the police as I walked about the gloomy study. Just then a blood curdling scream came from the kitchen where the maid was found lying in a pool of blood. I ran back to the study only to find the, now murdered, butler lying limply across a divan. Being terrified by the sudden deaths, I began to panic. The detective told me, as I stood shaking in my shoes, that the maid and butler had been listed in the will my Uncle had just completed. The only other names listed were me and a long lost cousin! I had been studying my shoes in order to avoid the detective's insinuating glare. To my shock, when I looked up, no one was there. Where had the detective gone? For that matter where is everyone else? They had just been here. I could hear the floor squeak behind me and I ran to the now locked front door.
Thursday, October 25, 2007
Guides for everything.
Crazy furniture, I like it.
Thanks, Robin!
Bizarre collections, yes there are.
Thanks, Mary!
We're filling in the literary void.
By the way, has anyone noticed how the publishing industry is cashing in on the "spawned from a blog" books?
Disapproving Rabbits, MySpace/Our Planet,
Post Secret
Hey, there's hope for the rest of us.
By the way, has anyone noticed how the publishing industry is cashing in on the "spawned from a blog" books?
Disapproving Rabbits, MySpace/Our Planet,
Post Secret
Hey, there's hope for the rest of us.
National Novel Writing Month
We still cover the latest in the written word whether it be fictional or non. This is a reminder that November is National Novel Writing Month. Check it out.
On November 1st you begin your novel and it must be finished by November 30th at midnight. You can submit it for recognition to NaNoWriMo . If you don't want to write they have NoNoWriMo celebrations all over or you can start one. Here's an excerpt from their site:
On November 1st you begin your novel and it must be finished by November 30th at midnight. You can submit it for recognition to NaNoWriMo . If you don't want to write they have NoNoWriMo celebrations all over or you can start one. Here's an excerpt from their site:
"National Novel Writing Month is a fun, seat-of-your-pants approach to novel writing. Participants begin writing November 1. The goal is to write a 175-page (50,000-word) novel by midnight, November 30.
Valuing enthusiasm and perseverance over painstaking craft, NaNoWriMo is a novel-writing program for everyone who has thought fleetingly about writing a novel but has been scared away by the time and effort involved.
Because of the limited writing window, the ONLY thing that matters in NaNoWriMo is output. It's all about quantity, not quality. The kamikaze approach forces you to lower your expectations, take risks, and write on the fly.
Make no mistake: You will be writing a lot of crap. And that's a good thing. By forcing yourself to write so intensely, you are giving yourself permission to make mistakes. To forgo the endless tweaking and editing and just create. To build without tearing down."
So, they are looking for quantity vs quality huh? Looks like a chance for our submitted book ideas to get to work. Now we can make some of our best submitted ideas into real books. Let's get started! I eagerly await some of the best ideas to be put to paper in the form of real paragraphs. If you don't want to write your idea, let me know, I might make a go at it. I can just see it now, a real work about stick figure dancing or the secret life of gnomes. I challenge you all to contribute to this worthy cause.
Wednesday, October 24, 2007
Dancing with the sticks.
Thanks, Julie!
...and now on TV, Dancing with the Sticks! a
great new animated show featuring all your
favorite stick figures competing for the top
dance team. See Marie Stick faint on live TV.
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