Boo! You suck! Boo!!
Just kidding.
I am, however, very swamped today, and in lieu of an actual blog post please accept this haiku:
Queries pouring in
Flood, ye electrons, flood on!
My raft sprung a leak
UPDATE: litgirl01 requested a Negativity Week video. I give you…. DOG NIGHTMARES (actually it’s completely hilarious)
Mira says
Oh, by the way, if anyone has a complaint about the fact that I’m gathering up guatemalan orphans, please address that to Nathan.
He had nothing to do with it, I just don’t particularly feel like taking responsibility for my actions.
Thanks.
Bookish Cook says
A coworker sent me that video. I thought it was really sad.
Nathan Bransford says
bookish cook-
Come on, now. Who among us hasn’t had a nightmare about a pack of wolves chasing us and ran straight into a wall?
Marilyn Peake says
Bookish Cook –
I saw that video on the news and felt really badly for the poor dog.
T. Anne says
Boo to you too! Negative or not, I’m positive this is going to be a very long week. For me anyway. Now back to the dog video!
Anonymous says
Dang it, that happens to me all of the time. At least the poor dog wasn’t dreaming he was being stuffed into an envelope because he was sleeping in a bunk bed and woke up a whole house full of people (that were not my family) yelling for them to stop. Or fall down the stairs sleep walking because you have to pee.
Kristy Colley says
Oh Nathan that was SO hilarious!! I will be forwarding that poor dog to my entire inbox!
Lupina says
Thank you, Ms. Lindsay. I’m so sorry you were ill. I will wait, no problem.
Writer from Hell says
your leaking raft
this soothing grey, at ease now
i thought you were brown!
Kristan says
https://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2009/3/9/
lotusgirl says
LOL! I like Negativity Week already. Bring it on!
Jude Hardin says
Haha! I’m sure the dog was relieved that it was only a dream.
Author J.A. Konrath discusses literary agents on my blog today, so everyone please stop by and say howdy.
Tracey S. Rosenberg says
“Query me first!” Great,
but will your query stand out…?
Include some bacon!
Anonymous says
I hate Haiku
It is a boring poem
The change decreases sleep
Anonymous says
How was that for neg…How the blank do you spell negativity?
Vancouver Dame says
So far, this negativity week doesn’t measure up to your standard, Nathan. Too much poetry that’s not to my taste. Hope you get through the work soon.
To Jude Hardin: checked out your site and the interview with J.A. Konrath. (I follow his blog too) I like his style. Thanks for the alert in Nathan’s blog.
Anonymous says
This is a love haiku for colleen.
Colleen was pummelled
don’t be sad colleen darling
you are still loved.
Scott says
Rejected again?
Give thanks.
From pain, inspiration.
unamifyj (yoo-nam’-i-feezsh) n. 1. a word caused to mean its opposite by the addition of a single letter.
Mira says
Well. In between my exhausting seach for guatemalan orphans, I used this as an opportunity to learn more about haiku. I thought I’d share what I found.
From wiki, the source of all things knowledgable and good:
“A haiku is an unrhyming verse form, conveying a complete image or feeling in three lines of syllables, and are usually about nature or natural things.”
The form is as thus:
5 syllables
7 syllables
5 syllables
Nathan’s haiku follows the form correctly. And he was able to smush and stretch the topic of queries into a nature format without hurting himself. That’s a good thing.
Wanda B. Ontheshelves says
Witch Haiku:
1 syllable
3 syllables
13 syllables
10 syllables (token iambic pentameter line)
Lines can be in any order, and multiple stanzas built up for longer poems. A “nonce” form I created for cute Halloween book of the same title.
For some reason, 1-3-13-10 sounds like a spell for poof! purple and white striped socks, fav attire of witches everywhere.
Mira says
That’s cool. Create your own haiku form. I like it.
Taffy says
Thanks for the time you spend on your blog! It helps me and quite often, gives me a laugh.
Weird that you wrote a haiku…I was practicing writing haikus this weekend! Yours was GREAT!
Cat Lovington says
I love this blog and look forward to it everyday.
Lois
davidf says
Um, Nathan, I think that dog was having a seizure. Seriously. We’re now the lucky owners of a SECOND dog to have this unfortunate disorder.
Some people have all the luck!
MarianneSullivan says
I may not know much about being a literary agent, but I do know an awful lot about dogs. That video didn’t make me laugh, that poor dog has a neurological disorder or as someone suggested was having a seizure. It seems infantile, at worst, and just lacking awareness of canine behavior at the least, for his owners to think it’s funny for him to show some aggressive behavior (lunging at a phantom) and then crash into a wall.
J. M. Strother says
I haven’t laughed so hard in years. But since this is negativity week, all I can say is that video sucked. 😉
~jon
Marilyn Peake says
davidf –
That’s why I didn’t find the dog video funny. It looked more like a neurological disorder, rather than a onetime event, to me. That poor dog probably has lots of incidents just like that one or worse.