Tinker with Tools Tuesday

"He who writes, and makes it pay,
Will live to write another day. "--A paraphrase of the well-known couplet, “He who fights and runs away / Will live to fight another day."


How's a writer to live?


Write to eat.
Eat to write.
Write to live.


Simple right?


Not so much. Thank goodness my DH has one fantastic job and I get to stay home with the minnow and monkey and write about all the things they love! Did I mention I love most of what they love? Truly I do. 


If this is not your predicament and you find yourself struggling like a stubborn mule,  feel free to vent today. Comment away if all is not well in neverland. I find the best tool before beginning anew again is, taking the time to reflect and breathe right along the lines of "I'm horribly screwed." and "This line could work right?" only don't take forever dwelling on could, should, or would--it is the dark room where negatives are developed.  

Masterpiece Monday

While I am currently waiting for critique responses from some good and trusty pals. I have also joined some online critique groups and will let you know if I get helpful feedback. So while I wait, I'll be editing and revising. In between the craziness, I'll be giggling over and fascinated by this book:

Rain Makes Applesauce by Julian Scheer. Illustrated by Marvin Bileck

salivating over this one:

Mud Tacos by Mario Lopez and Marissa Lopez Wong

(clearly I'm hungry, but not for mud)

and finding myself dazzled with hope that I can do anything, with this one:

Ladybug Girl by David Soman and Jacky Davis

"Saturday" is Simply Clever and Sensible

A child named Saturday. Age unknown. Clever and spunky. No need to hold in the laughs. Rip-roaringly funny times will be covered here. Expose. Enter child to the left. No sorry, from the right. She giggles as she tweedles her thumbs and gives a polite smile to the audience.

"Uh! Mom, literacy is not even a real word!"

Fantastic! Quite on the mark. Literacy is actually a fine-tuned, highly distinguished, and  prized specimen of the imagination (but only when growing rampant in an orderly fashion and slightly berserk in others). I agree. Upon examination I concur! Honest! Good job Saturday. Run along now.