Comic Relief/ tell the truth

over at The Red head Riter the Thursday tell the truth question is: "Are you closer to your mom or dad?"


well that's a really tough question. I would have to say my mother when she was alive. She died 8yrs ago. But I write to her everyday in my personal journal just for her. I have always been able to tell her most of everything. We used to have our own little word play so my dad didn't find out what I was up to LOL. I either told her I was "with" a friend which meant I could be anywhere, or I was "at" a friends which means I was actually at the friends house.  But even now I tell her everything. My dad- well hes just fun to embarrass.I used to tell him things just to see his face turn red, now its a lot harder to get him, but I do every now and then just to remind him I'm still around :)

My dad

                                                     
You know, after a day of "mom" this and "what" that a mothers job gets really frustrating at times, and then there is that sudden comic relief that should be in every dramatic story or in this case life.
My oldest daughter aka mad scientist. (Isn't she cute- she'd yell at me for calling her cute for this hehe)

red or orange...hmmm?!?

Mad Scientist look

Wednesday Writing prompt

So much of writing has to do with creativity. Being creative is what sparks stories and ideas from our strange minds. So with that in mind read on...

I have a challenge for you and I'm hoping it will be fun, though it will take some creativity and patience on your part. Here's what I have done, you know the word verifications on some blogs, well I have taken 10 of those words and created meanings for them- just because. 

I may never add them to a story, or really do much with them- but its fun and can be amusing. So I am sharing mine with you this week, and if you decide to do any writing regarding them, then I'd be most pleased to know about it, and if you want I can post it in next weeks Wednesday blog. If you want to create your own, please feel free to share that with me as well, contact me via e-mail with them though and I'll share them next week with everyone.

My verificated words dictionary: Since I enjoy fairies and magic, mine will relate to that this time. A special thanks to those who keep word verifications on, which gave me the inspiration for this!

DL Hammons

Red Means Go!

The Sassy Curmudgeon

unedited

knuckledraggers TSBs

encounter with a super star

ingloges: children of magic users.

preenta: a wing dye for fairies

ouctiot: a magic spell for seeing

crodenc: another word for "head" in fairy speak.

vuumpend: a magic vehicle

antedism: a fairy dictionary

oloarcli: a dinner reserved for enemies

oviesi: an orb for fairy travel

Brivea:  a city in fairy land

Towlin: a famous fairy song sung by the elders

Oh fairy dust! newest rejection

Any one who becomes really familiar with me as a writer knows I'm constantly receiving those pesky rejection letters, and while I know several other writers who do as well, I like to post mine just to remind myself that I can write about anything, and its another letter added to my list- I'm trying to get 100 of these rejections! 

I don't know what I will do with them when I get 100 I just know I want 100 rejection letters, maybe I'll post a story about all of them on a blogfest? Speaking of blogfest don't forget about DL's Drama blog fest----->Details!

So without further contemplation here is my "oh fairy dust" moment :

 Hello Summer ,

So this wraps up the call for submissions to Popshot's 'This Is Modern Living' issue. A massive thank you to all of you who submitted (sorry if you didn't submit this time and are receiving this email). We received a barrage of incredible poems and in the end had to turn away quite a number of them that were more than good enough to make it in. This is a rather frustrating but necessary part of the selective process.

For this and for the fact that this email can't be delivered in a more personal manner, I can only apologise.

Thanks again for the time and thought taken to submit to us and please continue to submit to future issues. We'll keep you posted.

Best,

Jacob Denno
Popshot Magazine
www.popshotpopshot.com

Are you out of writing dust?

Ladies and Gents,
Have you been struggling for a reason to write? Maybe you just don't want to commit to an entire novel because you have one in process, or maybe three of them? Perhaps your fairy dust ran out and you need some reason to write, well here it is: DL Hammons over at Cruising Altitude is holding a blogfest on Saturday August 7th for our writing pleasures! And there are great prizes too!! Come spread your creative wings with other writers, or if you don't have anything new you want to write, rummage through and find something to participate with, either way get out there and do something with your writing! You can find the details HERE

Happy writing!

Poor monkey

A picture is worth a thousand words, and while I understand my six year old did not want her "pretend" monkey to get away while he was asleep- this somehow still seems wrong!
Conversation with my friend goes like this as we are about to stumble upon the poor monkey tied up in my living room to my coffee table:


"Kayla, likes animals, she just doesn't realize the right way to treat them." I say picking up toys.
"But she gets along great with my dogs, adores them and I bet she'll make a good pet person" my friend comments.
"I'm serious" I say walking around the couch, "she can be very cruel, and she doesn't even realize it"
and then we stumble upon the helpless monkey. "See thats exactly what I mean- she loves this monkey, sleeps with it, adores it, and look what she does to it."
We both laugh, I untie the monkey with a renewed thought that I'll have a discussion with my youngest daughter...