A friend recently asked, "Where do you get your ideas from?" I'm hardly in a position to offer advice. I hopelessly litter my writing with all manner of useless metaphors and wannabe-clever literary constructs. This paragraph would be a good example.
July 2006
Archived Entries from this Month
On Writing Well
July 30th, 2006An Email Soap Opera
July 23rd, 2006Date: June 2 To: Mike Lee From: Friend in IT Subject: [fwd] [re] [fwd] [re] [fwd] [re] I can still smell you…
hey mike, here's the full thread. I reordered it so it's in chronological order. it's funny as hell. it's like a friggin soap opera. don't these people know that my job is to monitor work emails? they shouldn't be sending crap like this at work. but what the hell. makes my job more fun. heh. enjoy!
Welcome to Manhattan
July 16th, 2006It's not that Kris is unintelligent. Far from it. Her Ivy League graduate degree is plenty proof of that. In fact, she's one of the most intelligent people I know.
It's just that… well… let me tell you the story and you can see for yourself. (She's going to hate me for this.)
The Rat-Cockroach War
July 9th, 2006This is what happens when the lights go out. The rats mobilize and the cockroaches arm themselves. It's an all-out war unseen by human eyes. We wouldn't want to see it either; it would be too horrible to comprehend.
Bad Influence
July 3rd, 2006I admit it: I'm not always a "positive" influence on small children.
What exactly is "positive" anyways? And who's to say that teaching a four-year-old girl to French-kiss my girlfriend is not a "positive" thing anyhow?
Before you give me that look, let me explain.
