The Sunday Source section of the Washington Post has their obligatory yearly article about National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo).
An online piece accompanying the article is a list of some Soon-To-Be Famous First Lines from local novels in progress. There are a lot of good ones, but since mine is the first one listed it must be the best, right?
You can still sign up and join in. You have 18 days left – you can catch up! Come on, if I can do this with my old-lady arthritis hands and inflammation in my rib cage cartilage making it feel like rabid weasels are living between my lungs and our Area Coordinator can write in intensive care (seriously, read the article. she totally takes away my whining rights) – you can do this too.
Plus – It’s the perfect alibi for why you can’t possibly host Thanksgiving at your place. You have a novel to finish.
Hey, the elephant could turn out to be one of the ones that supports Discworld, too. So you’ve got composting and a calamity which could affect the balance of LIFE AS PRATCHETT KNOWS IT.
‘Course, you’d probably have to get permissions, so maybe that’s not such a good idea.
Actually, my friend I had coffee with the other day after i burned gatorland down with my mind is a huge Prachett fan – have to ask her about that. Husband is fairly certain I can’t burn things down with my mind, so I’m trying to take his word for it. I say, who knows what these crazy migraine drugs do…it’s possible. You can’t prove it’s not :-)
Pfft, Gatorland. Couldn’t you have found a better target, like a bunch of people with (R) behind their names?
Eh, they seem to be able to set themselves on fire just fine these days. I am going to miss Katherine Harris though – I do hope she makes good on her promise to publish her book, that seems like it will be hilarious. I mean, educational and politcall y edifying.
I’m waiting to see them turn it into self-immolation for the greater good…oh, wait, it already is for the greater good!