If I'm arrested for posting these, please bail me out or sneak me in a file. I'm partial to cassata cake, but losers can't be choosers. Maybe a really big Twinkie?

The First Loves of My Life (in chronological order):


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OK, the drawback to not using an outline is easily expressed in four simple words: Now what the F---??? A hideously depressing moment, to be referred to from now on as my "NWTF-M(oment).

I had my NWTF-M at 1:00 p.m. today when it dawned on me that, if events play out the way I'd like them to play out--and isn't that the point when you, like, write ( Read more... )

I read my first book when I was three: Little Ducky Takes a Bath. My grandmother insisted I had memorized the story, but I knew better--Icould pick out every wordBy first or second grade, I was totally hooked on reading. Years ahead of the other kids in my class, by seven I was walking nearly a mile to the neighborhood library alone-to say nothing ( Read more... )

You’re sitting in math, or English, or history, or whatever, and you’re industriously scribbling away in your notebook. Math problems? Verbs vs. adverbs? Reasons for the Civil War, or the discovery of the West Indies ( Read more... )

I’ve been asked this a lot: is The Cloud Factory an autobiography ( Read more... )