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I may be one of the luckiest writers on the planet. “How so?” you ask with your brows flat like a pair of furry balconies for your brain’s apartment. Let me tell you.
Following the lead of author and former lit agent Nathan Bransford, I decided to settle the pirates vs. ninjas controversy once and for all, using Google’s Ngram generator, which charts instances of words in literature from 1800 to the present.
Listening to Louis Armstrong, who apparently wants all my grizz-mushes to be wide.
A great article on the Revolution-era ironmaster’s estate at Hopewell Furnace National Historic Site in Elverson, Pennsylvania, is now available at Colonial Sense.
The article focuses on reenactments of Christmas celebrations in the various Hopewell Village houses, including a visit from Der Belsnickel!
A great piece for historical fiction writers and anyone interested in the early American history.
“&@#% you, Nat King Cole!”
– Ninety-three year old who loves Christmas.
In a recent Guardian rant by Edward Docx (a writer with the odd misfortune of sharing his name with a word processor file extension) the peculiar fantasy that there is a fundamental “difference between literary and genre fiction” is once again stitched together Frankenstein-like from bits of half-dead prejudice, tiresome artifice, and simple humanistic hubris.
It is time to double-tap this stubborn literary zombie and put an end to its virulent intellectual jaundice once and for all.
ZAD. Crooked like the letter Z. He is a mere zad, or perhaps zed; a description of a very crooked or deformed person.
– 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue
The Cult of Universal Authorhood now has a youth recruitment program.
Created by former New Yorker managing editor Jacob Lewis and current New Yorker staff writer Dana Goodyear, it’s called Figment.com, conceived as a sort of Facebook for young adult fiction, where teens can “write whatever they wanted in whatever form they wanted.”
froward _ Perverse, hard to deal with, ungovernable. Also, in a wider sense, bad or naughty.
– A Sea of Words : A Lexicon and Companion for Patrick O’Brian’s Seafaring Tales