Apr 10
I don’t know the source of this parody, but I’m posting it here for more than its humor. As a writer, I think it offers me lessons in the following:
1. use of voice to reflect character/personality/attitude
2. use of word choice as appropriate/believable for character
3. use of sentence structure and lengths to carry meaning and tone
4. [...]
Apr 09
Lisa Samson’s blog is back after her Lenten e-fast. She shares: ” If some things cause you a great deal of anxiety, maybe it’s not that God wants you to conquer it, maybe it’s a clue that God doesn’t want you around it in the first place. Maybe what’s causing you anxiety [...]
Apr 06
I met Elizabeth at the first writers’ meeting that I’d ever attended. Not long after that, she volunteered to speak to my Creative Writing class about well, writing of course. My students were so impressed that a “real” writer would come sit in a desk and share with them. After class, unfortunately for [...]
Apr 05
Last night we ate one of my pedestrian suppers of spaghetti and meat sauce. Cooking the meat sauce required cutting an onion. Cleaning up after supper(trust me, I promise this is going somewhere), I turned on the garbage disposal and started carefully jamming the onion skins down the rubber mouth of the [...]
Apr 04
ANSWERS ARE IN COMMENT THREE BELOW.
Every schoolchild knows that kangaroos carry their babies in their pouches. Fewer people know about kangaroo words, which carry their own baby words with the same meanings.For example, the kangaroo word illuminated contains the synonym lit among its letters. Similarly exists hides the word is and [...]