Which old witch? The wicked witch.  Snow White can go home now, if she's not dead.

I finally killed Her Majesty, the step mother of Snow White.  I hate writing fight scenes, and thought a magician's duel a la Merlin vs. Madame Mim would be easier.  Not so much.

Finally, I decided to cut all dialogue from the scene - it doesn't really belong there once they're fighting.  Move anything in quotes over to the Villain's Monologue scene, and I'll sort it all out later.  Then I decided No Lunch until 1.5 K Words of Fighting.  I got awfully hungry, but I killed the queen.  It only took four pages.

I dread the editing session, I'll likely cut out a bazillion words.  Or at least 500.

Happily, I sketched out most of the rest of hte chapter while the fight scene wasn't happening.  Hopefully it will be done before the weekend :)

Six year old boys generate really weird conversations, but they know the value of a dollar.
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Not bad for someone who can't read yet :)

Going back to school after 15 years - I think I'm half scared to death and half excited out of my mind.

Masters Degree - me?  Can I?  Of course I can!  I think.  Maybe.  But I want to.

Hence procrastination for... four or five weeks?
Also figuring out just what I need to apply, since I'm not coming straight of of the BS program.
And didn't anyone figure out that this can stand for two things?
What it means, and what its worth, all wrapped up in two little letters.

Chop three red apples.
Chop about three ounces walnuts.
Add about five ounces sweet red wine.
Add cinnamon as desired.
Adjust any ingredient to taste...  Times five for the holiday guests.

Refrigerate about an hour.

Makes a great desert or any-time snack.
Pardon me, i'm going to add some more wine. (Hic)

I never even knew it.
My writing style is, 'bad things happened', and then...  and then...  and then...

After, I go back and fill in the emotions that really should be in there somewhere.

According to this post, that makes me a manly writer.
"I think people are a little mixed up. That’s the crux of it. It seems to be a common belief that women are more emotional and character driven than men and men are more obsessed with action and adventure. Then there is a common belief that because an author is male/female they can’t properly write a character of the opposite gender because they aren’t of that gender and thus, just don’t get it."

Gosh, better turn in my girly credentials.
Better put some unicorns into my stories.

In honor of Eldest Child, who at the wise old age of six decided that home-made applesauce is ‘enough gooder’ than the store-bought stuff that he’d help peel the apples himself, and is now teaching Little Red peel apples.  Eldest Child used to confuse the two words, because while the apples went into the pot, the peels went to … grandma’s compost heap.  Start with one item, send it in two directions with almost identical words.
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The witch who gave Snow White the poisoned apple has snaggled teeth.  MS Word insists that this isn't a word, and suggests snuggled.  Yeah, I don't think so.

Her teeth snuggled with Snow White?  That is just the image we want, as I write the wizardly duel between Our Hero and teh Evil Sorceress.

Snaggled - markedly uneven : irregularly projecting; also : broken or decayed to stumps ORIGIN snaggletooth + -ed

Dear MS Word,
Phhhhht.