Warmup #8
500 word challenge:
Describe a mundane object as if you’ve never seen it before.
Warmup #7
250 word challenge:
Walk out of your house, and start your personal jet pack.
(It’s the future — where’s my jet pack?)
Warmup #6
250 word challenge:
Describe your favorite piece of furniture from when you were a child. For bonus points, use the point of view of a child.
Warmup #5
250 word challenge:
Write a conversation in which a student known to be lazy explains to his teacher why he (or she) didn’t do his homework. “My dog ate it” doesn’t suffice.
Warmup #4
250 word challenge:
Write a looping piece. Think “There’s a Hole in the Bucket” or “Third Rock from the Sun” (I’ve never heard of it, either).
Who to vote for in 2008
I’ve come up with an easy way to decide whether or not to vote for an incumbent in any congressional election this cycle.
Here are a pair of links:
House Roll Call Vote on “Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008”
Senate Roll Call Vote on “A bill to provide authority for the Federal Government to purchase and insure certain types of troubled assets for the purposes of providing stability to and preventing disruption in the economy and financial system and protecting taxpayers, to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide incentives for energy production and conservation, to extend certain expiring provisions, to provide individual income tax relief, and for other purposes.”
Here’s how to vote: lookup the incumbent candidate in your area. If they voted NO (or Nay) on the appropriate piece of legislation, vote FOR them. If they voted Yes (or Yay, or I’m an idiot and will listen to political panic rather than economists), vote AGAINST them.
See? Isn’t that easy?
Warmup #3
250 word challenge:
The punch line is: “The Aristocats!” (No, that’s not a typographical error.) Tell us the joke.
Warmup #2
250 word challenge:
Anthropomorphize your writing implement. Tell about him writing what you’re writing.
Warmup #1
250 Word challenge:
Walk a person across a room.
NANO 2008
There’s likely going to be a bit of random noise this year on my blog with regards to National Novel Writing Month. In previous years, I’ve had a plugin setup in advance to filter NANO-related posts from my standard RSS feed. This year, well, I haven’t had enough time to set one up, but the forums are so lagged I’m about to start posting here in lieu of waiting for the Nano forums to start working. Apparently, they didn’t anticipate quite the amount of usage the servers receive at this time of year… just like they didn’t last year.