Hey y'all. We're on the home stretch for edits. They're due this Friday, and I'll warn you now... blogging may or may not happen this week. And if it does, it may or may not sound crazy.
Okay, crazier than usual.
Last weekend, I attended the SCBWI conference, went to church, had a family dinner, worked on edits... so I thought it'd be fun to share with you some of the phrases I overheard during my exploits. (Who knew going to church was an "exploit"?)
Things overheard this past weekend:
"Pick me! I wanna be a leper! Me! Me!"
-From a boy in primary who was volunteering for a presentation on a parable
"Query hooks should be equal parts desirable and unique. A paranormal romance where the main character falls for a supernatural creature? Desirable, but not unique. A story about a child serial killer? Unique, but not desirable. Make it both."
-paraphrased from Chelsea Eberly, Associate Editor at Random House
"Mormons are lucky they don't drink. They wake up in the morning and they know that how they feel at that moment is the best they're going to feel all day."
-From my uncle at the dinner table
"Voice [in writing] can't be taught. But it can be cultivated, like a garden."
-Matt Kirby, author of The Clockwork Three
"If you want to keep something secret, put it in the instructor handbook."
-From a church leader at an instructor training seminar
"It's just as easy to fall in love with a rich man as it is with a poor one."
-My mother-in-law quoting her own mother
"Shots kill kids!!"
-Shouted from Kid C to the waiting room as we were leaving the doctor's office after receiving our flu shots.
So, what did you overhear this weekend? And how is everybody doing?
