Point One: I have had to replace the two instances of the phrase 'pure energy' in my novel with 'plasmatic energy'. Apparently pure energry is not an actual thing.

Point Two: Scientists have NO IDEA how lightning is created. How awesome is that!

*giggles*

http://www.hpfans.net/forum/thread-48254-1-1.html

Uhm... this is so very, very random.

Three queries sent out so far and I'm going to keep sending them. My word but it's a stressful business. Each agent seems to want something or other slightly different and I end up agonising over every word choice ( Read more... )

I found this note scrawled on a piece of scrap paper in one of my Year 8's books ( Read more... )

Hiya all. I've been bullied into submitting my novel to literary agents. Got my first two chapters polished, my synopsis looking decent (no small thanks to Stu and Sagacious C for their help a with that a while back) and now all I have to do is the query letter.

Here it is. Any and all help will be utterly priceless.

Thank you.

( Dear Agent )

They work in silence even when I tell them to talk, they come in five minutes before the end of the lunch and start afternoon early and worst of all, I just received this message on the email homework I set...

'CMN Tempest HMWK ( Read more... )

Update ( Read more... )

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xSmLd0__xxM

I'm the guy at the beginning - in the suit.

Two year 10 girls came to get extra help with their Spoken Coursework on Dicken's Hard Times at Lunchtime. I was cheerfully going through it with them, when one of them, Jade, suddenly spouts out, "You know, sir, I was crap at English last year, but you've really helped me." I blinked several times and Jade continued, "I know I'm a pain in the arse ( Read more... )

I've been teaching an almost normal teacher timetable since January and I've now made it to the Easter holidays. This is what they call Teaching Practice (inventive name, I know). There's only three weeks of Teaching Practice left after Easter, and then we go into theory stuff, without much teaching. So basically, I'm pretty much done.

( Lots of whitter about Teaching Practice )