I have important writing to do today involving disruptive beagles, 26 pounds of macaroni and cheese, and a tattered copy of The Canterbury Tales.* But I have to report an update on Tink's Fairy School.
Yesterday on the monkey bars, I learned that Tink is still accepting applications from her fellow students for fairy school. Apparently she has three students. Only one of them has made it to Level 12, where she will be taught to fly. The other two have been unable to advance past Level 11's invisibility challenge. Several other students have been denied spots in the class due to failure to believe enough or to having at some point chased girls. Sadly, class has been disrupted for disagreements: certain fairies swing from side to side too much when they skip a bar on the monkey bars, making it impossible for other fairies (who are less skilled at skipping but more skilled at not swinging) to pass them. This is fairy-frowned upon.
Also, one of the students wondered aloud if I knew that Tink only sleeps one hour a night, during her special one hour sleep time. After that she awakens and spends the rest of the night in fairyland.
Further revelations about fairyland were suspended while the girls pretended to be humans playing soccer. I will keep you updated as I gather more.
Meanwhile, I writhe with jealousy at how much more fun they have all day than I do.
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Oops. Poem. I love love love Charles Ghigna's What's a Poem?, from today over at GottaBook.
* Have I mentioned a million times yet how much fun writing this book is???
Friday, April 3, 2009
An update from fairyland
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9 comments:
26 pounds of macaroni and cheese. Oh, did you have to go and mention that? I'm trying to diet. I'm betting it's the really stodgy kind, thick with cheese sauce...
I'll read any book with fairies and 26 pounds of macaroni and cheese in it.
Wait, is it 26 pounds of mac n cheese, or 26 slices of American cheese? Or are the slices used for the mac n cheese recipe, because that is seriously not enough cheese!
I'd rather be going to fairy school than working on a bio right now...
[word verification: ingor, who must be the guy who runs Troll School for those rejected Fairy School candidates who chased girls.]
Diane, it is both. Ha! And Ingor is clearly the troll.
Mary, it's very thick. And shaped in a mound to resemble a human head.
Pretending to be human has to be the hardest thing for a fairy-in-training. I speak from experience.
And your son will present a real challenge to her!
Candace, it's extra hard, I hear, when you have to play soccer without flying.
Anonymous, true, though Destructo has long been a fairy trainee. He lacks focus, but since he does anything Tink tells him with enthusiasm and adoration, he's a quick learner.
Tink obviously has the first rule of writing down pat. . . the willing suspension of disbelief.
. Definitely a writer in training. Must be in the genes.
Sharon
Sharon, or a fabulous liar. I am doomed.
Your book sounds like a blast to write, but I really want to go hang out with Tink and take fairy lessons ;)
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