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Wednesday, February 29, 2012

Happy Leap Day!

Have a glorious Leap Day!

This photo requires a bit of explanation. The monster eating the little fairy is a finger puppet. Elaine Ambrose, in her great talk about humor, handed out these little finger puppets for use when us writers got a bit stuck. What a great idea, thanks Elaine! 

Well, I'm working on the second in my trilogy of THE MALL FAIRIES. And I already had the little fairy. So once when I was particularly stuck with one chapter I saw the monster and fairy sitting on my desk. In a burst of inspiration, I made the monster eat the fairy. Now every time I look at this I smile and the smile bring more words.

Okay, dear readers, what do you do when the flow of words starts to trickle? Do you have monsters eat fairies?

3 comments:

Kathy McIntosh said...

Oh, gross! Poor little fairy.
I was at Elaine's presentation and got a pink monster. He makes me smile but I love your creative writing inspiration!

Anonymous said...

What an awesome finger puppet!

I just read your comment on my getting my email hacked post, and had to come over to see what's going on with you. Glad I did. This made me smile!

And I did get a new email and am finally on an upswing.

p.s. I've just tried twice to get past the double verification, and I can't read them. So many bloggers lately say they give up if they find these. I never get any spam on my blog. Blogger is good with this. And if there's a comment we don't like, we can delete it! Okay, I'm going to try again....
Ann Best, Author of In the Mirror & Other Memoirs

Conda Douglas said...

Ann, I agree, and I FINALLY figured out how to turn off that silly word verification. Hope this helps! And so glad things are going better for you!