But I Still Have My Pinkie Finger

You are “Yakuza” (Japan­ese mafia) What Japan­ese Smi­ley Are You?


Never Seen the Movie, But the Description Fits

Your Christ­mas is Most Like: The Mup­pet Christ­mas Carol You tend to reflect on Christ­mas past, present, and future… And you also do a lit­tle singing. What Movie Is Your Christ­mas Most Like?


*Snore* is the sound of what?

If you said, me copy-editing, you’re right. The bad news is, it took me twice as long as it would have to copy-edit PS due to my inabil­ity to stay awake while read­ing my own work. The good news is, I’ve got­ten lots of power naps, and the edit is done. Yippee. Time to send it out.


Revision Woo-Hoo

Just typed END on the revi­sion of THE NOVEL FORMERLY KNOWN AS BOUND FOR GLORY, now titled PEOPLESSONG. One more copy-editing pass, and it’s out the door. A friend has given me a refer­ral to an agent, so we’ll start there and see how it pans out. I have a good feel­ing about this draft.


The Nuns Have It

So, tagged me. These are my favorite PG rated ana­grams. Some of them were down­right obscene, which you can check out your­self if you want to ana­gram “thun­der­chikin” at http://www.mbhs.edu/~bconnell/cgi-bin/anagram.cgi . KITCHEN HID URN CRUD HEN HIT KIN HECK RID HIT NUN INDICT HER HUNK HICK DITHER NUN I tag any­body who men­tioned Opry­land in


123

I’m 123 pages into the revi­sion, and it’s going pretty well. I know I’ll have to do another pass to remove some of the mono­logue I’m adding because it will be repet­i­tive in places. After that, I’ll do a copy-editing pass and be done. The next big ques­tion is, what will I do with it when


Rip Van Winkle Writer

Is it a bad sign when you keep nod­ding off while read­ing your revi­sons aloud to your­self? Am I the only who does this?