November 9-10, 2009:

Since I seem to be in a writing funk (ie little writing is going on) this seems as good a time as any to remind us all that writing is not just sitting with one's fingers on the keyboard. It happens when a writer reads the newspaper (an angry father holds a school principal hostage), looks out the kitchen window (a gray squirrel saucily scolds a blue jay who scolds right back, a kind of creature stand-off), watches a tv show (plain bride buys a sexy wedding dress and becomes a beauty in a...