Dialing for Dialogue
Stuck? 911 Writers Block provides emergency settings, characters, dialogue, verbs, ways to "kill a character", and endings, such as:
"You drop the antique gold pocket watch into a storm drain. It has brought you nothing but pain."
Hmm, everything except plots -- except, I suppose, by implication.
You select your emergency help by pressing a button on a telephone keypad. Cute.
Sunday, August 24, 2008
Tuesday, August 19, 2008
Word of the Day: incunabulum
Word of the Day
incunabulum (n)
A book printed before the 16th century; artwork from an early period
"'It's a long story, Sergeant. A few months ago we had a rare book stolen from this room. A beautiful old Tier Buch -- a book of animals -- an incunabulum.'"
--Carey Magoon, I Smell the Devil
I attended an antiques fair last weekend in upstate New York. There were many old books there -- though not as old as incunabula. The aroma of musty, falling-apart books invokes the past like nothing else, I think. Nostalgia stinks?
incunabulum (n)
A book printed before the 16th century; artwork from an early period
"'It's a long story, Sergeant. A few months ago we had a rare book stolen from this room. A beautiful old Tier Buch -- a book of animals -- an incunabulum.'"
--Carey Magoon, I Smell the Devil
I attended an antiques fair last weekend in upstate New York. There were many old books there -- though not as old as incunabula. The aroma of musty, falling-apart books invokes the past like nothing else, I think. Nostalgia stinks?
Thursday, August 14, 2008
Stress Remedies
"We could learn a lot from crayons....
....Some are sharp, some are pretty and some are dull. Some have weird names, and all are different colors, but they all have to live in the same box."
More such wisdom can be found at Stress Remedies.
....Some are sharp, some are pretty and some are dull. Some have weird names, and all are different colors, but they all have to live in the same box."
More such wisdom can be found at Stress Remedies.
Monday, August 11, 2008
Brain Dump
Brain Dump
Let me take you down to business is bad boy band together we can do it was the best of times change your life on Mars invaded China dishes break the silence is golden parachute opens the door frame up to you never know your own strength in numbers don't lie down to business. The rain falls under the bridge the gap between the two by two steps forward march madness. I have a question authority to order in the court disaster planning a vacation time is money is the root cause and effect a change in the weather report to me.
Let me take you down to business is bad boy band together we can do it was the best of times change your life on Mars invaded China dishes break the silence is golden parachute opens the door frame up to you never know your own strength in numbers don't lie down to business. The rain falls under the bridge the gap between the two by two steps forward march madness. I have a question authority to order in the court disaster planning a vacation time is money is the root cause and effect a change in the weather report to me.
Wednesday, August 06, 2008
Color photos of the 1930s
Kodachrome!
Color photography, though rare, did exist in the 1930s, and these pics of Depression-era people and places make those times seem a lot more contemporary than the monochrome photos we usually see. And that's a little bit disconcerting, given the current economic climate.
Color photography, though rare, did exist in the 1930s, and these pics of Depression-era people and places make those times seem a lot more contemporary than the monochrome photos we usually see. And that's a little bit disconcerting, given the current economic climate.
Sunday, August 03, 2008
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