Here's the only thing I've written lately: my haikus! (Actually, I take that back. If you want to read the comics I've written lately, just click on this lovely link. )

In the Heart of the Sea

Whale rammed the Essex.
No food is left, it's time for
Cannibalism.

Harry Potter

Scar on my forehead.
Voldemort is quite evil.
I gotta kill him.

Ed
Who is this Ed guy?
All that really matters is,
He has a ponytail.

There ya go. I think my favorite is the Harry Potter one...

The world is your oyster

Hey guys, I sent an email out yesterday about how this blog is now being linked to from the library's webpage. If you are looking for an audience now is the time to post. I'd like to see a few haikus from the last meeting up on here. Sure, mine are awesome but let's see some of yours.

The Haikus from our exercise

OK, here's my three haikus based on the Lord of the Rings. One for each part of the trilogy.

The Fellowship of the Ring

An uncle's gold ring
a menagerie meets
I'll go on alone.

The Two Towers

"We'll fight the wizard."
"We'll enter the Dark Lord's land."
"Hey look! Walking trees!"

The Return of the King

That's one huge army...
Let's challenge a bigger one
Four fingers, no ring.

W.H. Auden on poetry

This quote from this article really caught my eye: "The girl whose boyfriend starts writing her love poems should be on her guard. Perhaps he really does love her, but one thing is certain: while he was writing his poems he was not thinking of her but of his own feelings about her and that is suspicious. Let her remember St Augustine’s confession of his feelings after the death of someone he loved very much: “I would rather have been deprived of my friend than of my grief.”"

Hey kids, this is your monthly reminder that our dodecannual writers group meeting will take place this Thursday at 6 pm. That's March 22nd at 6 pm at the Morrison Regional Library. Be sure to bring something to read whether it's yours or something you like.

Pass the paper

OK, this is the third time I have tried to write this post. Blogger!!!!

If you enjoyed the game of passing a paper around at writers night I found a website via John Scalzi that is trying to be the internets version of paper passing. You can check it out here. It's called Ficlets.

Cool book cover of the day

Never heard of the author but I likes the cover.

Free! Audio! Books!

Yes, they are free. Yes, they are in public domain and yes, they are read by volunteers. Still, free audio books.

Real?

I don't know if this is real or not but if it is, it's hysterical.