Category: Writing
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Rich Daddy
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The rich young dad walked around the house with his tape measure, preparing for the work he wanted to get done. He only had a certain amount of time from the beginning to the end of the project and it had to be right. He didn’t make junk and he…
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Sir George the Good Knight
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10/14/03 17:53 is the date stamp for the original file. <><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><> Sir George the Good Knight stood surrounded by the minions of the Dark Kingdom. “The Kingdom is mine, Sir George. Surrender to me now and I will only put out your eyes and make you a slave in my…
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A Couple Of English Games And the Promise of A Story
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No, Sorry. Not Rugby or Cricket or Bulldogs or anything like that. I mean that the English language is so weird it can only be grasped through tough thorough thought, though. What happens in golf when you cough in the rough? Different things from the Internet that I have gleaned…
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The Archives Interest Me
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I suppose this sounds very self-aggrandizing and egotistical, but I really like a lot of the stuff I write and have written. I have been going back to the roots of why I started this blog in the first place, as a place to practice writing, as a way to…
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A New (to me) Resource
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I was looking up “viz.”, one of those Latin phrases that people use in writing, e.g., i.e., etc. and came across a very useful reference page, Latin Terms and Abbreviations from the University of North Carolina Writing Center. I think it’s very generous of them to share this resource and…
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Dave Gets What He Deserves
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Here’s a new story. I won’t give you the prompt until the end. Dave Gets What He Deserves When a day and a half went by and she hadn’t gotten a call, she started to worry. Al always called her. Always, as in, all the time. They were best of…
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Breaking A Run
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Dear Fans, Friends, Fiends, Foes, and Foundlings, I had been doing so well for the last 30 days and now, just when it looks like I should be working on the start of my second month of entries, lo and behold, it’s 11:30 at night and I can’t think of…
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Habit Forming
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Well, yes, I hope you will start forming a habit of following my adventures, exciting and dull (to you perhaps) but I am talking about my current run. I have posted something in this blog every single day for the past 30 days, this being the 31st. This is a…
