Starting with Teh Funniez
101 Sensible Things to Do With an Umbrella, by my LJ friend Te Aroha. (Reprobates Represent!)
Rather than sensible, this are more hysterically funny, whimsical, colorful....
Read the list, just to enrich your life.
(Personally, I want to use an umbrella as an unfolding travel laundry-basket.)
Hot Stuff
...since I can't find a picture of my Transformer Boyfriend, or at least not one I recognize from the .5 seconds I saw him.
Oh, this picture does relate to a short story project I'm probably going to commit any time now, though.
I'm in a short-story spurt.
It happens. Too bad these kind are singularly unproductive...
Wise Word:
This take on the idea of "killing your darlings" suits my sense much better.
There is a saying: "Throw some gold on the floor." It is derived from desprender las palabras, which in the tradition of storyteller, in the tradition of cuentistas, means to throw away some of the words of the story in order to make it stronger.
(I have been here. I envy me, too...)
Every entertaining talker knows how to do this when telling stories of things that happened--even slightly miscasting the truth, so the strength of the story is made to translate to the hearer.
And this has also inspired an idea for a human-interest article about my "accidental stalker" aunt.
She has an ongoing history in the last few years of bumping into a star Bruins hockey player, who is retired but still fairly well known. It will make a *killer* story. She knows how to throw gold on the floor, too...
Rather than sensible, this are more hysterically funny, whimsical, colorful....
Read the list, just to enrich your life.
(Personally, I want to use an umbrella as an unfolding travel laundry-basket.)
Hot Stuff
...since I can't find a picture of my Transformer Boyfriend, or at least not one I recognize from the .5 seconds I saw him.
Oh, this picture does relate to a short story project I'm probably going to commit any time now, though.
I'm in a short-story spurt.
It happens. Too bad these kind are singularly unproductive...
Wise Word:
This take on the idea of "killing your darlings" suits my sense much better.
There is a saying: "Throw some gold on the floor." It is derived from desprender las palabras, which in the tradition of storyteller, in the tradition of cuentistas, means to throw away some of the words of the story in order to make it stronger.
(I have been here. I envy me, too...)
Every entertaining talker knows how to do this when telling stories of things that happened--even slightly miscasting the truth, so the strength of the story is made to translate to the hearer.
And this has also inspired an idea for a human-interest article about my "accidental stalker" aunt.
She has an ongoing history in the last few years of bumping into a star Bruins hockey player, who is retired but still fairly well known. It will make a *killer* story. She knows how to throw gold on the floor, too...