Such a good link about kidzlit

Oct 06, 2008 06:01

Truth, lies, pies and what the kids think of what I do.

My head is full of lyre-backed chairs and the glint of sun far, far in the north as a drakan prow surges, cracking ice, and on the problems of point-of-view and why can't I find a decent synonym for 'trouble' that means what I need it to mean? and no, no, not that character, no, go away images, I want that one to--

"Mom?"

live, no maybe the images will change if I wait, and anyway I need to research early mattresses so that, oh yeah, but first remember to go back through to clarify that yin-thread about the song with the inverted fifth and its yang about how rumor metastasizes--

"Mom! Drive me to Brian's house!"

"Oh. Okay. Sorry. My brain was--"

"Your brain is always--" Hand gesture to match mine. "When are you ever going to make any money, so we can fix the door, and get a real couch?"

"Sorry, kiddo, I'm trying hard as I can." Open door, start car, sit at super long red light and oh, see, there are the lights hissing across the sky, reflections on the rain wet sails...

"Mom, what's for dinner?"

"How about if I make tacos? Nothing that heats up the kitchen too bad."

Biscuits! If they're making pan-biscuits over the campfire when the...

the millstone of mediocrity, writing: process, kids

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