mary e. pearson

1.  The disinegration of a marriage is not entertainment.  And if it is, will we be throwing people into a ring with lions next?  When will TV go back to hiring real writers to write real shows?  Enough already.

2. kaz_mahoney  has a post wondering about POV and tense.  Interesting because I was just wrestling with this myself.  I don't think there is any right pov or tense.  I really believe each story calls for its own telling and there is one best way for that story to be told, but sometimes it takes some experimenting to know which pov and tense works best.  The only pov I haven't done yet is second but I suppose one day that story might come along.

3.  Over on the Facebook AJF page they have asked the question, which three words would you use to describe yourself?

4.  The sun is on vacation if you were wondering . . .

5.  Spoke at a conference wtih teachers at SDSU yesterday.  In the face of all these budget cuts, their dedication rose to a whole new level.

6.  De mijlen tussen!  Found out that The Miles Between sold Dutch rights!  Hooray!

7.  alixwrites   has news about the Beastly movie!

8.  Book burning?  Which century am I living in?

9.  Why does everything break at once:  Car (rear-ended), laptop (dead), TV (dead, which really, is no big deal) 

10.  I received a fan letter a few days ago that made me cry.  Sometimes crying is a good thing.