Mary Catelli's Erraticly Updated and Exceedingly Ill-Organized Journal

Type, type, type along. At his youngest sister's wedding, much discussion of the prince's as-yet-unidentified bride.

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and puns

Finished outlining my sequel to my Sleeping Beauty story -- set the century later, when she wakes up.

It's about the prince who is her cousin's great-grandson, not the one who wakes her up. Though it does affect him.

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Once yesterday's love interest introduced herself, her part of the story fell together. So I could consider the important part of the story, where the hero has to carry out the impossible tasks.

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Was poking at the outline to see if it really was stymied at the point. (Long journey, got to put some filigree in there, but not enough to distract.)

Whereupon the Sleeping Beauty poked up her head and said, Ha, ha, ha. Did you really think I would go away quietly?

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in priorities

God bless America,
Land that I love.
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It has its interesting aspects.

For one thing -- well, you can define an epic as a "lengthy narrative poem." You can define a lyric as a "short poem expressing emotions." But you have to define a sonnet as "a poem of fourteen lines using any of a number of formal rhyme schemes,". Superheroes face much the same problem.

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Two ideas are slowly turning to stories.

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