Don’t check your calendar, it’s Saturday. Again. Another week has rolled around and slipped away. We have been at war all week with the meter high weeds growing in yet to be landscaped clay slate of our back yard. It’s an all out “Weed-egeddon” using lawnmowers, shovels, and our bare hands. In another 6-8 weeks I might actually have a fence and grass back there – joy!
Mr. Manuscript received a few hours of my attention, not nearly enough. What is it about warmer weather that makes me want to stay up late, sleep in, and not be able to focus on anything? The front end of the novel is in good shape, I like how the recent revision has provided means for the characters to demonstrate relationships. Now I have the saggy middle section to firm up and make agree with the changes. There are a few major action sequences coming up in the next few chapters that will be great fun to tackle. I can’t wait to get there.
Here is the review of this week’s posts –
Quickly Quotable #12 – The Little Prince: Quotes from Antoine Saint-Exupery.
Did you know? – A video about the rise of information and technology.
A Writer’s Voice, Pt. 1 – Discussion on point-of-view and narrative voice
A Writer’s Voice, Pt.2 – Discussion of the other elements that create a writer’s voice.
Movie Review: Alice in Wonderland – A review of Tim Burton’s latest visual treat.
Fun Friday: Not the Favorite – a great picture found in my email.
I look forward to another insanely busy week filled with yard work, end of preschool festivities, and the million other things that climb into my lap. Until then, I want a nap.
My Literary Quest 
Didn’t we just do this a day or so ago? Sigh.
Sure feels like it! Where does the time go?
For once, I am glad the week went by quickly, only because I’ve got 3 more weeks of hideous office work and then I am FREE from the job from hell…phew
Almost there – you’ll make it!
Your reference to your backyard weed festival prompts me to show you one of my recent “odes.” Hopefully you will end up with a better yard than ours…
Ode to My Black Thumb
Whenever I take a morning walk
On a bright and sunny day
I usually take the time to talk
to my plants along the way.
I speak with gentle tone, for
They’re dying from neglect
There’s much I must atone for-
They’ve lacked for my respect.
For though each seed was planted
With all my best intent
It seems I took for granted
That they would be content
To grow, without a second thought
from me to fill their needs
and do the daily things I ought
Like keeping them watered and free from weeds.
The day of reckoning is here
I bow my head in shame
Before the ones I held so dear
And to each gave a name.
Of these withered leaves I ask:
Forgive, please, my mistake!
No more will I take on a task
That needs a hoe or rake.
Vowing this, my slate is clean –
My floral sins forgiven.
And so, to keep my garden green
To this idea I’m driven:
(And pardon me if this sounds sarcastic) –
From here on in, I’m buying plastic!
Love it – another winner! I hope you are submitting these somewhere, they’re too good to keep to yourself.
Yeah…I got on WEbook, and have an “Odes to the Everyday” project going… Thanks!
Time flies. I saw the movie yesterday and your review was spot on. Love Paula’s poem.
I kinda like your “programs” here on your blogs!
Fun Friday seems great.
may I share funny ones to your e-mail?:D