Gareth Discovers Intonation
Nov. 13th, 2008 01:12 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dr_pretentiousThe other night, Dan was putting the boy to bed. "Bath?" said Gareth. It was the first time he'd asked a question with clearly recognizable question intonation. We hadn't intended it to be a bath night, but what can you do the day your kid discovers the spoken equivalent of the question mark?
Gareth's comment on the drawing of the bath: "Duck duck duck duck duck!" He discovered the exclamation point some time ago.
In other news, my recent progress on the Ria story involved going through the bracketed [FIX ME] notes and the bracketed preliminary notes about scenes, and deleting all the bracketed stuff that I'd already acted on. The story's closer to finished, but it's shrunk by about a thousand words since my last word count bar. I know, I know. Deletion is not orthodox NaNoWriMo conduct. Memo to Robert Frost: It turns out that tennis with the net down is better than no tennis at all.
Gareth's comment on the drawing of the bath: "Duck duck duck duck duck!" He discovered the exclamation point some time ago.
In other news, my recent progress on the Ria story involved going through the bracketed [FIX ME] notes and the bracketed preliminary notes about scenes, and deleting all the bracketed stuff that I'd already acted on. The story's closer to finished, but it's shrunk by about a thousand words since my last word count bar. I know, I know. Deletion is not orthodox NaNoWriMo conduct. Memo to Robert Frost: It turns out that tennis with the net down is better than no tennis at all.
