More Fun Than A Mayonnaise Enema
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I’m sorry, Brent can’t come to the blog right now. He’s still a bit frazzled from his history test and all the blogging he’s been doing this week.
It’s been nice that he’s had so much fun with all his internet friends, but he still hasn’t painted the door frame for me or changed out the spent fuel rods from the reactor like he said he would…
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Dearest subconscious mind,
I know that we have not always gotten along in the past. I can be, well, a little bossy and you…you have your moments as well. But putting all that aside, I wanted to apologize for my role in certain regrettable events. I’m sure you remember the recent job crisis and how I shut you down and basically locked you out of all daily operations, in a desperate attempt to keep your sense of fun and irreverence from displeasing my master employers…
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Due to work and family demands, I find myself having to cut back on the time I spend on the Ominous Comma.
I love writing this blog and will continue to do so indefinitely, but I am going to have to trim it back to just two times a week until at least the end of the summer…
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I know that I am posting ahead of schedule, but events are in motion that simply cannot wait until Monday.
Camille, the Hot Comma Momma, the joy of my heart, the mother of my offspring, is gone.
At this very moment, she is in Central America, fighting terrorism, teaching advanced asbestos handling, or possibly studying Spanish.
Perhaps all three, you can never tell with her…
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What I Know – A Very Short Article
by Brent on October 14, 2007
in Commentary
One of the oldest and most reliable pieces of advice given to any writer is to “write what you know.” This is great council for writers of all levels of ability, because you can lie about things that you know with a level of detail and conviction that would be completely lacking in a subject unfamiliar to you.
That’s why you find John Grisham writing about lawyers, Robin Cook writing about doctors, and Steven King writing about disturbingly freaky people you probably wouldn’t want to be alone with…
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