Clippings File
Overheard in Ottawa:
Clerk on phone to potential customer: No we don’t have. No, not shoes. Not skate shoes, sir. Skate boots. Boots. We don’t sell them here. But if you call other stores, ask for skate boots not skate shoes so they know what you look for.
Some things still under construction.
In fact, this very thought is incompl
Article Link: on backward planning a writer’s year by Moira Allen including this concrete example,
For example, saying “I want to sell more articles to Magazine X” isn’t a plan. A plan is saying, “In order to sell five articles to Magazine X this year, I must (1) brainstorm at least ten article ideas (as some are likely to be rejected) and (2) submit those ideas in a well-prepared query. I should also complete both tasks by February to (1) allow time for the editor to respond and (2) allow time to complete all five articles by the end of the year.”
Link: Breed Not, Want Not
Comic Link: Watch your grammar
Egg headed sayings: “He thinks his eggs are of more account than other people’s hens…and other expressions
Glad Game: I may have intermittent ouchies but it’s not constant at least.
What an interesting experience to be out in -40 with windchill and ice crystal snow biting skin. Lovely to be in out of that.
Sweet to be in where there’s company and food as the snowstorm rages.
This third moisturizer I tried seems to actually work.
Found a book I liked. Some poems to take me away.
Train trip soon. Road trip soon. Plane trip relatively soon.
I’m not getting my pants beaten off me in *every* scrabble game I undertake.
That car going sideways though the intersection ahead of me added to the thrill of the day.
Emails from lovely friends brighten.
I will eventually, undeniably, eventually get to things I intend to do, just not today.
Light Link: Cafe Press St. Patricks Day buttons
Quote: “The only solution for ‘inert readers’ is to be dipped in saline solution and connected to electrical wires. If that doesn’t work, they should lose their ‘reader’ status and be made to work the copy machine. ” – Andrei Codrescu
I have finally found a moisturizer I believe in too. It shouldn’t be so hard but many don’t live up to their expectations. And I need lots of moisture!
Nothing better than staying warm with a good book when it is -40 out there. If you were writing from Wpg.. I might wonder if the driver of the sideways moving car was me. I did that very thing just yesterday.