Don,
Glad to hear that you're finally
getting settled down. I imagine that the coolness of Merida does have to do
with being there earlier than you have been in the past. I know that here it is
been a lot warmer. We actually had two days when the temperature hit 70° – in
January.
I have to admit that I don't
remember ever seeing Starlog
on the newsstands. But at the time, I was living in a really small town in
the middle of nowhere, with two small children in a trailer... I had survival
in mind.
Back then we did have access to a
television – I believe it was our first color television and I remember
watching Space 1999 and the Bionic Woman. Of course, our special
treat for ourselves was anything and everything Star Trek.
I looked up Starlog and was impressed with the longevity of the magazine. They covered all of the superheroes both Marvel and science fiction. I think I'll try and find some on eBay - they'd be a kick to read.
David Gerrold was a prolific writer! I vaguely remember reading some of his books like Jumping off the Planet and Battle for the Planet of the Apes. I was not aware that he had written the Trouble with Tribbles which was made into a Star Trek episode.
I looked up David Gerrold and read
some of his limericks off the page titled "Adventures in Rhyme and Space".
He wrote one about The Hobbit:
Let's honor Frodo the ringer
(And his good friend named Sam
Wise the singer)
He was chased by a ghoul
In the end, he gave Gollum the
finger.
But I think that my favorite deals
with Star Trek:
Since I first wrote that damn
script for Gene
And the electric picture machine,
But these have chased their
Creator
from here to Decatur.
Nobody knows the tribbles I've
seen.
"Hickory Dickory Dock" was limerick? I started doing a limerick search, and ran across some of the best ones written by fourth graders. Ya know Don, fourth-graders are pretty smart and are really into rhyming...
Your challenge for writing
limericks, for me, will be quite an adventure. I'm not much of a rhymer, but I
think as long as I keep in mind his idea of starting with the punchline and
then working my way backward, I might be able to put together a limerick or
two. But I have to admit, it's going to take several weeks to figure this out.
However, I am going to send out this challenge to our writers and see what they
can come up with – maybe they can bail me out.
We are progressing on changing the
website and on creating a new name. I finished all the legal paperwork this
week to officially change the name from Wormhole Electric to Wormhole Digital
Publishing. It feels good to have that started.
I got Transport 38 up on Amazon this week. We're starting a new series by Ariel Cinii and we have Laura's latest
submission to Wormhole. Laura is going to be developing her own company in
Nairobi, and doesn't think she's going to have time to write for us anymore. But
with Laura, you never know – writing is what she does.
I placed several of our books into
Amazon's KDP program and will start a free giveaway for them. Tammy Narayan
will be the centerpiece for the April Transport, and I will be pulling some on
her stories and also offering them free on Amazon during the month of March.
I'll keep you all updated through the blog. In the meantime click on over to our library section and pick a couple of new books to see you through this "in-between" time.
I started the research on my next
nonfiction book. I'm looking into the college student debt fiasco. I've been
wading my way through articles that have an awful lot of finger-pointing. Just
out of curiosity I've been doing a bit of backtracking on the cost of education
as compared to beginning salaries and the unemployment rate for baby boomers as
compared to millennials. I'm still hearing that the millennials are getting the worst part of this, but I can't help but thinking that maybe baby boomers are paying for this twice – we paid off our college loans, and now we're helping our children and grandchildren pay off theirs.
I have included information on
what a Limerick is, just in case anyone gets caught up in the rhyming. Hey
folks, drop us a limerick!
Have a great week folks,
Carolyn
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What's a limerick?
A limerick is a poetic form that can be particularly fun to read and to
write. Limericks are often humorous, mean-spirited, or pornographic. I'll
explain the form, and you can decide how down and dirty you want to get.
Limericks consist of five lines. The rhyme scheme is aabba. In other words, Lines One, Two, and Five all rhyme with each other, and Lines Three and Four rhyme with each other (in some limericks, Lines One and Five end with the same word and rhyme with Line Two).
Limericks consist of five lines. The rhyme scheme is aabba. In other words, Lines One, Two, and Five all rhyme with each other, and Lines Three and Four rhyme with each other (in some limericks, Lines One and Five end with the same word and rhyme with Line Two).
Creative Writing Now. (2014). How
to write a limerick. Retrieved from http://www.creative-writing-now.com/how-to-write-a-limerick.html aabba. In other words, Lines One, Two, and Five all rhyme with each
other, and Lines Three and Four rhyme with each other (in some limericks, Lines
One and Five end with the same word and rhyme with Line Two).
Creative Writing Now. (2014). How
to write a limerick. Retrieved from http://www.creative-writing-now.com/how-to-write-a-limerick.html
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