Ann Hathoway was on Jon Stewart the other night and she referred to herself as a nerd. Jon Stewart asked her "What sort of nerdy pursuits do you have?" And she answered, "I'm a Scrabble fiend."
Well, if that is the definition of nerd, then I more than qualify. At any given time, I am in no less than 18 concurrent games. (at least 4 on my iPhone and 14 on Facebook)
But I think what really makes the case is this... I participated in a PB Makeover workshop on Write on Con this week, and it was THE MOST FUN I'VE HAD ALL SUMMER!
Yes, really. Better than beaches and boating. Better than wining and dining.
It really was a shot of adrenalin for me.
For example,
BEFORE
Beware the itching snitcheroo
with fingertips that stick like glue.
Make sure he never touches you.
The itch will drive you to snitch, too.
I took this already fun, Seuss-y stanza by Myrna Foster, and came back with this:
AFTER
Beware the itching snitcheroo
with fingertips that stick like glue.
But please don’t touch him, if you do
The itch to snitch will switch to you!
More fun than careening down a steep water slide.
Yup, NERD-ville.
16 comments:
Your workshop was my favorite part of WriteOnCon (even better than the ninja agent advice on my novel excerpt). Thanks for the confidence boost. HIGHLIGHTS HIGH FIVE is publishing my fifth poem (with them) this January, but I've mostly received form rejections for my picture books. I haven't even submitted one in years. Now I want to pull out the drafts I've written this year and polish them up, see if I can make something shiny. Thank you.
Love how you reworked that stanza! So much more fun than the original.
Keep up the Scrabble playing. It's obviously serving you well, my friend. :)
We need to have a Scrabble throwdown.
I proudly join you in picture book nerd-dom!
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Love it!
And I read in some article today (in EW?) that Jack Black is a Scrabble fiend, too. Who knew?
Ha. If that's being a nerd, then go for it!
Great job with Myrna's stanza, Corey! (and Myrna!) Both are clever, but the reworked stanza really shines.
Corey,
You did the absolutely perfectest bestest thing with that last line!
Wow...your nerdom is a work of art!
I like playing Scrabble. So I'm a nerd, huh? There are far worse things to be. : ) Great work on the stanza!
Great collaboration here! Myrna's verse went from already good to even better.
=)
I'm totally a nerd. My sister play scrabble every day on vacation. My kids all know how to play. We have downloaded it onto the iPad. Yay!
It is ok to be a nerd... scrabble anyone?
You guys ROCKED that workshop!
I prefer Boggle, myself.
Re: Ann Hathaway... I REALLY hate it when gorgeous, have-it-all actresses claim themselves to be nerds. As if.
I love your before and after, especially since you got a high from it :) I think what makes me nerdy is that I too get pretty over the top excited about words and letters and putting them all together! I love Scrabble and fortunately figured out how to get it on my phone, so when my 2 year old takes a nap in the car I have something to do in case I forget my writing notebook.
Love it, Myrna! I thought you only wrote novels. :)
Corey, WoCon was sooo good. Glad you had that opportunity.
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