WRITING – the namesake
Now the blog will take a turn
towards...what it was intended.
Between Wednesdays
Come on, guys! I write a title that I
am sure no one gets, and yet no one asks me about it!?!?!
The name of the blog has to do with the
Columbia Writers writers group I attend the first and third Wednesday
of every month. Ergo, “Between Wednesdays” refers to the time
when I'm not at a writers group. Although equally important is the
Martha Dailey Lookout Club I attend, too. --If I didn't say that, I
know Karen would excoriate me at our upcoming meeting.
As the namesake is writers-group
related, I'll give you some funny tidbits about Columbia Writers.
Salt and Muse
For the first time ever, we decided to
try a write-in. A write-in is simply getting together to write. Adam
was really against the idea. Out of all of the discussion I've
participated in with these people over the past year, no one was ever
so against any idea as Adam was against this one. He
looked like he was going to vomit. So when the time of the meeting
came around, he said that he wouldn't go because the food there was
too salty and he couldn't stomach writing in a restaurant full of
people gorging themselves on all of that salty food.
Strange encounters
At a different meeting, Katy said with
complete sincerity that it was perfectly reasonable to believe that
her brother, diagnosed with autism, was in fact an alien and that was
why he behaves differently.
Strange encounters part II
Brenda agreed.
Back to school
Jessica is a first-year teacher in a
middle school, and one of her students wrote on her test (that she
then handed to the teacher): “I hope [you] die and burn in hell.”
She got suspended.
Argh! That's kind of a teacher comment.
I was promising myself I wouldn't do that.
Kelly
And then there's Kelly. She's a good
writer and is not visibly steeped in craziness. That seems nice. She
probably eats babies.
Strange encounters, revisited
Dude, she really said that. Seriously.
Weird guy
Me. With school, Montgomery College on
Saturdays, my wife's parents, and Espen, most of my day-to-day
conversations are with people who have not mastered English. So I'm
kind of surprised that I should still be the one teaching English. Or
writing a novel in English. But I guess I can't write it in crazy
gibberish. hmm...
Anyway, thanks for reading. With my
college class wrapping up soon and Natasha getting her job more under
her belt and taking 4 credits next semester as opposed to 6, I'll
have more time to write! I can't wait! More blogging, more real
writing, too!
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gmmkfkjiop grammarpodlo thenoohitinonlplace tehime! (see paragraph
above - let me know if you think this has potential)
