Five Star Friday's Edition #88
Friday, January 22, 2010 The reader has certain rights. He bought your story. Think of this as an implicit contract. He's entitled to be entertained, instructed, amused; maybe all three. If he quits in the middle, or puts the book down feeling his time has been wasted, you're in violation.
— Larry Niven
This Five Star Friday roundup is brought to you by a lawyer, a writer, poetry, a birthday, a muse, alcoholism, the end of a marriage, a disordered child, literacy, love, bad habits, a roller coaster, the Underground Railroad, rocks in pockets, oversharing, thankless work, difference, HIV, and world-weariness.
Share your own best weblog entries in the comments and show us how great you are.
Happy Friday!
"Solid Ground" from words... thoughts... nonsense
"My Words" from The Word Cellar
"Mustachioed Ninja" from djkirkbride.com
"Eli" from These Are Days
"Meet My Muse" from Ubi es Caelum
"Hi, My Name Is Heather" from The Extraordinary Ordinary
"And Then There Were Four" from Issa's Crazy World
"Filed Under Things They Never Tell You When You Become a Mother" from From the Cheap Seats
"Also, My Dad Can Beat Up Their Dad" from Sarah and the Goon Squad
"Fire and Rain" from OrdinaryArt
"7 Habits of Highly Ineffective, Unhappy People" from Jurgen Nation
"The Gulf of Grief" from The Eleventh
"The War of the Roses" from Whiskey in My Sippy Cup
"Cold Blasts and Heavy Rocks" from Boy Crazy
"The Corruption of Authenticity" from Modite
"I Could, Perhaps, Have Been a Contender" from Irretrievably Broken
"Advocacy and the Elevator Ride" from Praying for Parker
"January 21, 2010: David Phillips" from the3six5's posterous
"I'm Fifty-Five Years Old and I Just Don't Know" from Bless Our Hearts
Please come back and share good writing with us over the coming week to be featured on the next Five Star Friday. If you have read a really good piece on someone else's weblog, submit it by Thursday at midnight CST to have it featured on Five Star Friday.
And because you are a fan of finding good new writing on the internet:
Reader Comments (6)
I'll start off the comments with one of my entries:
http://www.schmutzie.com/2010/01/man-does-my-shlop-ever-twist-underwears.html
Thank you for this. I discover so much good writing through this weekly tradition -- new blogs, new gems.
(And thanks to ever sent in my link. I'm honored.)
-elizabeth
Thank you again, friend.
Thank you for this....it's an honor to be listed among so many talented writers.
Thank you for this....it's an honor to be listed among so many talented writers.
It's been a week from hell at our house. Writing about my experience has been incredibly therapeutic.
Devastation and Loss