Rhys Bowen's Blog, page 34

In the good old Summertime

Today I'm blogging on Jungle Red Writers (http://www.jungleredwriters.com/) about the good old summertime--how unstructured and magical it seemed when I was a child and how that is lost to today's children.
Do you have summertime memories to share?

And Now, My Pretty....

Over at Jungle Red Writers (http://www.jungleredwriters.com/) I've just blogged about those improbable plot twists that can really turn us off from a story--the girl who goes down to the basement in the storm, with the serial killer in the neighborhood... you know the kind of thing. So hop over and add your comments.

Don't Wave that Fish at me!

Okay, I confess it. I am not the world's best typist. In the days of the old typewriters I was hopeless. Even when the powerball was invented, I wasn't too hot. Then came computers and--hooray--for the first time I could type as fast as I could think. It changed my world.

However, typing this fast does sometimes lead to mistakes, which are not always picked up when I read through, and then somehow overlooked by my copy-editors, and proof-readers. One of these was pointed out to me yesterday by...

Mordor is Real

Okay, I believe. Mordor exists. Sauron is real. Not just because there is so much evil in the world. I have more positive proof than that.
It would take an inspired evil genius to invent the internet and thus make us slaves to our computers for hours each day instead of getting out into the fresh air and interacting with each other.
And it would take an even more inspired evil genius to invent Twitter and enslave us by getting constant tweet updates on our cell phones.
How do I know Sauron is be...