2nd Draft is DONE, baby

Thanksgiving memes!
I had to make this one up all by my lonesome, but I’m sure it exists out there somewhere. Still, I plan to tag people annoyingly at the end of this, just like it was a real meme. Hah. So, without further ado, my not-very-imaginative Thanksgiving meme, 10 Things I Am Thankful For. The only [...]

a word on NaNo from Her Dogginess
Dear mom: I am tired of all this stupid paper you’ve covered your office in. It smells funny, and I am very bored. I have tried to remind you that I am also very cute, But you just keep staring at that big square thing on your desk and making clicky noises with your fingers, Until I can’t even [...]

teaser Tuesday: sort-of-magic kiss
Another one! Mostly because I can’t think of anything else to say right now: this has been a week of bad sleep thus far, and my IQ is a little lower for it. So, by request, a recently-written kissing scene, Dari-style, which is to say, awkward, jaded, slightly sarcastic, and with unexpected results. *** Before I could [...]

in retrospect: lessons in writing
I haven’t done one of these in a while. And it’s Friday the 13th, so I’m going to go for a relatively mortifying memory, because why not?  I can afford to. I’m so much more sophisticated now, yes? Anyway. How The Hell I Got Myself Into This, part –um, whatever. I am 12, a prickly 7th grader [...]

teaser Tuesday, now with cursing children
I haven’t done one of these in a while, but I figured, since I’m doing a not-too-terrible job of keeping up with the NaNo folks (no, I am not doing NaNo, but I am kind of jogging along on the side of the road as they sprint by me) that I’d let myself have a [...]