Sonnet 87

Overheard on the way to work:
Guy: Well, I didn’t want you to think I was doing anything that might seem, you know, too boyfriend-y.
Gal (laughing): Oh, don’t worry! Just friendly. Not boyfriend-y at all!
Guy (weak laughter): No, I guess not. *cue look of frustration that the woman totally doesn’t catch*
Guy, I’m sorry to say that [...]

I haven’t written in a while, and I suppose that’s because there’s not too much going on in the WordNerdia-IPia household (well, there is, but posting specifics would be bad). The truth is that my reading dropped off a bit (after posting about How I Became a Famous Novelist, I had to wait a couple [...]

IP is right. The bad ones are more fun to write.
And here’s another bad one for you: How I Became a Famous Novelist by Steve Hely. It’s not that he doesn’t get the ridiculous fiction masquerading as literature—he does. And it’s not that he doesn’t get that so many genres have so many ridiculous conversations—he [...]

As you may have noticed, the wedding posts have been slowly but surely disappearing. However, whenever I think about our wedding, there’s one moment in which I feel like we totally tripped up a stupid wedding tradition and made our guests laugh at the same time.  You know the clinking of glasses to get the [...]