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Apr. 7th, 2014 06:00 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
mrockwellWriting
Happy April, all!
First off, the SUPER WINNER for this year's Crossing the Streams contest has been announced, and it's none other than our own Karl, who won my and writing partner Jeff Mariotte's individual contest with his great Calvin & Hobbes answer. Congrats, Karl, and thanks to everyone who entered any or all of the various contests - we hope you had fun and found some new authors to read, even if you didn't win any books.
In other news, this year's Scribe Awards nominees have been announced. Congrats to all! (No, I wasn't a nominee; I didn't have any eligible tie-in work that came out during the judging period. Maybe next year.)
In other, other news, I mentioned last year that I had participated in my local police department's Citizen's Police Academy. Well, I finally got to do my ride-along this past Friday, during the graveyard shift. The night included a few traffic stops (one that ended in an arrest for felony possession of meth), a sexual assault case, and a possible break-in where I got to come inside while they cleared the building with their guns drawn. Lots of great book material, I learned a lot, and felt completely safe the whole time. If you have the opportunity to take part in something similar in your own community, whether you're a writer or not, I highly recommend it. It's a great way to find out things about your town and your police force that you probably never knew.
Everything Else
April is, among other things, both National Poetry Month and Autism Awareness Month. In honor of both of those things, here is Robert Frost's "The Road Not Taken." It's not about autism, per se, but as my friend Stefan (whose little boy is autistic) says, it's certainly applicable to how autism affects the lives of the families who deal with it.
The Road Not Taken
by Robert Frost
Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth;
Then took the other, as just as fair,
And having perhaps the better claim
Because it was grassy and wanted wear,
Though as for that the passing there
Had worn them really about the same,
And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had trodden black.
Oh, I kept the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads on to way
I doubted if I should ever come back.
I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I,
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.
#SFWApro
Happy April, all!
First off, the SUPER WINNER for this year's Crossing the Streams contest has been announced, and it's none other than our own Karl, who won my and writing partner Jeff Mariotte's individual contest with his great Calvin & Hobbes answer. Congrats, Karl, and thanks to everyone who entered any or all of the various contests - we hope you had fun and found some new authors to read, even if you didn't win any books.
In other news, this year's Scribe Awards nominees have been announced. Congrats to all! (No, I wasn't a nominee; I didn't have any eligible tie-in work that came out during the judging period. Maybe next year.)
In other, other news, I mentioned last year that I had participated in my local police department's Citizen's Police Academy. Well, I finally got to do my ride-along this past Friday, during the graveyard shift. The night included a few traffic stops (one that ended in an arrest for felony possession of meth), a sexual assault case, and a possible break-in where I got to come inside while they cleared the building with their guns drawn. Lots of great book material, I learned a lot, and felt completely safe the whole time. If you have the opportunity to take part in something similar in your own community, whether you're a writer or not, I highly recommend it. It's a great way to find out things about your town and your police force that you probably never knew.
Everything Else
April is, among other things, both National Poetry Month and Autism Awareness Month. In honor of both of those things, here is Robert Frost's "The Road Not Taken." It's not about autism, per se, but as my friend Stefan (whose little boy is autistic) says, it's certainly applicable to how autism affects the lives of the families who deal with it.
The Road Not Taken
by Robert Frost
Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth;
Then took the other, as just as fair,
And having perhaps the better claim
Because it was grassy and wanted wear,
Though as for that the passing there
Had worn them really about the same,
And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had trodden black.
Oh, I kept the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads on to way
I doubted if I should ever come back.
I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I,
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.
#SFWApro
