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By Ethelie, on November 22nd, 2010%
The Directorate is filled with the Wails of Agents who struggle with their NaNoWriMo Novels. Oh, to be sure, many Agents have flourished this Month, typing Hundreds of Thousands of exquisite words. We applaud them!
But others, despite the Directorate’s best Efforts, languish. It is almost as if the Ungrateful Wretches do this out of Spite.
An Example of a Struggling Writer
Let me Present to you the example of Agent Sweetman-Gross. This Unfortunately Hyphenated agent came to me Yesterday, weeping. She was nearly twenty-thousand words Behind, and doubted she would ever Succeed. Indeed, I shared her Doubts. She was a Terrible sight to . . . → Read More: On the Merits of Giving Up
By Gustav, on November 5th, 2010%
Concerning the Evils of NaPhreAppMo
Gustav
November, not April, is the cruelest month, for it brings the horror that is NaPhreAppMo: National Phrenologist Apprenticeship Month, in which hundreds of thousands of would-be phrenologists declare themselves “apprentices” and go out into the world, shaving the heads of strangers and creating bad drawings of the features of their skulls.
If these erstwhile phrenologists cannot find willing volunteers, they either chloroform the unwary, or simply invent drawings of imaginary people and unicorns. I myself do not leave Directorate headquarters during the entire month of November, lest I be accosted by an earnest young protophrenologist.
They then believe . . . → Read More: On the Horrors of People Liking Things I Do Not
By Lida, on November 2nd, 2010%
Darlings! It is time for us to talk.
In the Bible, after some dramatics with a wind strong enough to break rocks, a terrible earthquake, and a mighty fire, God finally takes his audience into consideration speaks to the prophet Elijah in a “still small voice.”
We all have a still small voice that speaks to us, I believe. Though perhaps only biblical prophets hear the voice of their God, everyone can hear something, if they are quiet enough. Have you listened? You may need to listen carefully to hear what whispers behind your customarily raucous thoughts. Some things make it easier to . . . → Read More: Concerning the Still Small Voice
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