Hello ,

My days are filled with reading the constitution and relearning physics. Well, learning physics, to be precise. I found myself so confused in high school physical that I ended up quitting the course. Silly me. It's actually very interesting. Today we made a Newton's cradle with marbles. Ignore the fact that i had to look up the exact name. I was going to say Newton's pendulum.... Oh well, little by little.

Unlikely Hero

My neighborhood has not seen rain

Since I fell through our windowpane.

And though people don't go out

Due to the unseemly drought,

I am hero of the floodplain.

Copyright © Richard Breese

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Children's books: do they count as a read?

What would you consider a book by Neil Gaiman? A young adult book? Except that this one follows a boy form the time he's a baby to when he's fifteen. So the protagonist isn't a young adult until the very end.

So I'm not sure.

I do think it's a very good book and Neil Gaiman a very talented storyteller. Which is all I care about in the end.

Having a free Masterclass pass for a few days I was delighted to be able to listen to him talk about writing. If you're ever gifted a Masterclass pass, be sure to check out his lectures.

This is one of my favorite passages in the book. It reminds me of the time I told my parents about my imaginary friend Purple Girl (who my mother hence forth called Purple One Girl. Why? Have no idea, but it annoyed me a lot as a girl).

My parents laughed, which was the very wrong reaction, and my brother made fun of me. We were in the car in rural Wisconsin and when we passed a very old two story farm house I said, "That's Purple Girl's house."

Who knows what stories might have come out of me had the reaction not been laughter.

Who knows? Maybe I'll write a few stories about her one day. She was very different from Nobody Owens, the protagonist in The Graveyard Book, but every bit as interesting. I highly recommend this funny, fantastical story about ghosts and what we see in the living, cultural myths and who makes up friends and family.

Did you have an imaginary friend as a child?

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As far as writing goes, I'm editing Coffee Stains and should have a pre-order link and cover reveal next newsletter! Whoo-hoo! And I'm working on closing a few loops in short stories. I have signed up for three short story contests this fall. One has a 24 hours deadline in which I don't get the prompt until the day of. And it can be any genre! Should be fun!

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If you are at all interested in writing, whether fiction or creative non-fiction, I have a FREE Writing Sprint Mini Course. In the course you'll be sent five videos, one each day for five days, with a prompt that you can use for fiction or non-fiction. Then on Friday the 10th I will invite everyone who signs up for a free live writing sprint!

It should be lots of fun. Sprints are a great way to start writing again or get your toes wet. The prompts help you overcome writer's block and the limited time helps psychologically with waiting to do it until you have a 'day to write'. In just 30 minutes you'll have some writing done!

Free Writing Sprint Course

You can sign up for it here----^^^^^^

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Until next time,

Kat

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