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So here I am, getting my Clarion West Write-a-thon words in the face of a road trip with teenagers and busy busy dayjob, working on a story that's my first attempt at a murder mystery ever! and that is also a new genre I'm calling steamnoir! and has anyone even pledged to support me using the easy-as-pie donation button at my Write-a-thon page? No, the answer is no.
Sad writer is sad.
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Speaking of the road trip--two cities in four days! Three museums, one zoo, a pool, an audio book of Watership Down, two 14 yr old boys and one 12 yr old girl!
Memphis: Lions and tigers and bears (mostly sleeping)! Elephants and pandas and lemurs! Komodo dragons and cheeky lizards! Statue of Bast w/kittens! Also, more seriously, the National Civil Rights Museum is amazing and gave me chills over and over.
Chicago: You probably know, the Art Institute has a lot of the famous paintings you've seen in pictures all your life, but never in person. It was wonderful to come around a corner and be face to face with Hopper's Nighthawks, Seurat's A Sunday Afternoon, a Dali or a Magritte. Also, they have a really swell selection of Cornell boxes. And we ate lunch in a garden by a fountain with the resident duck keeping us company. And then the Museum of Science and Industry, which had a Mythbusters special exhibit going on, and has a cavernous huge room filled with hands on storm science stuff--lightning making, tornado making, soundwaves, wind machines--very very cool.
And I finally got to see Colleen Moore's fairy castle, which I have loved since I was five and found a book about it, in the real:
There will be pics from the trip in a later post. (above pic is not mine; castle is displayed in very low light)
Sad writer is sad.
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Speaking of the road trip--two cities in four days! Three museums, one zoo, a pool, an audio book of Watership Down, two 14 yr old boys and one 12 yr old girl!
Memphis: Lions and tigers and bears (mostly sleeping)! Elephants and pandas and lemurs! Komodo dragons and cheeky lizards! Statue of Bast w/kittens! Also, more seriously, the National Civil Rights Museum is amazing and gave me chills over and over.
Chicago: You probably know, the Art Institute has a lot of the famous paintings you've seen in pictures all your life, but never in person. It was wonderful to come around a corner and be face to face with Hopper's Nighthawks, Seurat's A Sunday Afternoon, a Dali or a Magritte. Also, they have a really swell selection of Cornell boxes. And we ate lunch in a garden by a fountain with the resident duck keeping us company. And then the Museum of Science and Industry, which had a Mythbusters special exhibit going on, and has a cavernous huge room filled with hands on storm science stuff--lightning making, tornado making, soundwaves, wind machines--very very cool.
And I finally got to see Colleen Moore's fairy castle, which I have loved since I was five and found a book about it, in the real:
There will be pics from the trip in a later post. (above pic is not mine; castle is displayed in very low light)
