Sixteen. That’s the number of lines of text appearing on the first page of a book. After the book jacket blurbs, it’s that first page that must compel the reader onward or the book is put back on the shelf. There is a site that critiques those first lines; it’s called Flogging the Quill andContinue reading “The First Sixteen Lines”
Monthly Archives: April 2008
What's for Lunch
My wife and a neighbor walked the dogs this morning. Neighbors stopped them on three separate occasions to warn them of a mountain lion sighting. It seems that a cougar killed a deer yesterday in a neighbor’s yard and then sat with his lunch all day in the shade of a oak. Who knew thatContinue reading “What's for Lunch”
What’s for Lunch
My wife and a neighbor walked the dogs this morning. Neighbors stopped them on three separate occasions to warn them of a mountain lion sighting. It seems that a cougar killed a deer yesterday in a neighbor’s yard and then sat with his lunch all day in the shade of a oak. Who knew thatContinue reading “What’s for Lunch”
Save the Rainforest-Use a Condom
Yup, according to the BBC, “The Brazilian government has begun producing condoms using rubber from trees in the Amazon.” Read about it here. Why do I try to write fiction? You can’t make this stuff up.
Nullius in Verba 