Monday, September 27, 2010

...senseless writing


senseless writing makes no sense! huh? what you talking about lenny? well what im saying is we gotta be really on top of our five senses and take notes about them so we could use them to make our characters and places and other stuff come alive for the reader.
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we gotta think about our senses and not just use them. if were listening to people talk and listen to the words and know what they mean were using our sense of hearing but mostly we dont stop and think does that person have a high voice a low voice or a real deep voice. were using our sense of sight but are we thinking does that guy talk using his hands or just sit there. does that lady cross her legs and not look people in the eyes. does one of them have some habits like knuckle cracking or playing with a moustache or swinging a leg or tapping a foot. see what i mean? that’s using our senses and thinking about them at the same time! its using our thinking senses to know about people and writing it down. if we want our charcters to be real we gotta think on all our five senses when were around people and places.
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its not just listening and watching though. we gotta let those other three senses be part of our thinking too. we gotta think about touch, smell and taste stuff. if were writing about being at a pizza place we want to know how it looks and smells and how the food tastes and how our character fits in. all this sense stuff makes real good descriptions of people and places.
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in my writing book writing magic creating stories that fly miss gail levine says,
“When you tell readers what your characters are hearing, tasting, smelling, touching , and seeing, then your readers will experience it all, too, and they’ll be drawn into your story.”
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do a fun thing for yourself and for a day think about your senses and dont just use them. take a bunch of little notes and at the end of the day look at what you said. youre gonna be soooo surprised at what happens when you get on top of all your five senses!
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do you think about all of your five senses and make notes about them to help make your characters more real and make your writing better?
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…hugs from
lenny

Thursday, September 23, 2010

...for just one $



LOOK UP! see that cool poster at the top of my blog with those three pretty ladies on it? theyre some of my really special blogger friends that i love. one reason i love them soooo much is cause they got really good hearts and like helping people.
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on october 10th, and thats coming up pretty quick, theyre gonna do a walk to help kids and big people not kill them selves. theres just so much of that suicide stuff happening. could you believe over 32,000 people kill themselves every year. its just a really big problem and its getting worse. how sad is that! its real hard for familys cause they got nothing left but asking “why?” a zillion times but not ever getting an answer and that could hurt their hearts forever. that could happen for your family too. you could lose someone you love and maybe its a friend or someone in your family.
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could you believe in america someone tries to kills himself every minute! and every 16 minutes someone dies from it. just think, while youre reading this theres a lot of people trying to kill them selves and before you get done someone is gonna be dead. thats sad and scary! whats more worse is now lots of them are just kids and real young people. suicide is the 5th leading cause of death for kids just 5 to 14 years old and 3rd for young people 15 to 24 years old. its 4th for adults 18 to 65 years old.
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YIKES! we just gotta help!
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helping someone is really EASY! you dont have to do the hard part of the walking. nope! we already got some cool walkers! all you gotta do is stick your hand in your pocket or wallet or purse or smash your piggy bank and pull out a dollar. just think, for just ONE $$$ DOLLAR you could help SAVE A LIFE!!! how cool is that! more than one dollar if you got more would be even better! :)
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i couldnt write all this stuff and not give out my own dollars. so i need to tell you i already did my part and i got my brothers and sister to do their part too. now im asking you to do your part and GIVE JUST ONE $ DOLLAR!
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are you ready to do it? hooray for YOU! just click on that poster at the top and type in a name and it will get you to where you need to go. oh, see that pretty girl on my side bar? the one with the cool horse? shes emily and shes miss justines daughter and shes doing the walk too. hooray for EMILY! you can support her walk too. just click her pic!
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BIG THANKS to all the ones who gave already and all of you who are gonna read this and give bunches of help from your pocket. i promise its gonna make your heart feel soooo good. :)
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…biggy supersized hugs from lenny

Saturday, September 18, 2010

...yikes! im sick!



AACHOO! sorry. did you see my sunshines been gone? some did and some didnt. its gone for a while cause i been real sick. i got a little scared cause i couldnt want to think i could miss my birthday for being sick and maybe be in the hospital. i said inside my head no way lenny youre NOT gonna miss that birthday!

my brothers and my sister got me to the doctor real fast. the doctor said i got a really bad bug but im gonna be ok. WHEW! that made me happy for sure. yesterday i started with a really sore throat and now today i started with real bad coughing. ack! so now i got that bad bug and a bad cold. yikes! for sure im not having any fun. im doing lots of rest and eating chicken soup. ugh! im drinking lots of water and juices. cause of being in bed im reading lots. right now im reading that neat grey griffins book that nice miss shannon w m got specially for me. WOW! its really cool. thanks again miss shannon!

now im saying BIG THANKS!! for all my blogger friends that been sending me really nice get well lenny emails. so far thats
miss sharon miss theresa miss shannon o miss candace miss yaya miss lola miss justine and miss sarah. i gotta say another BIG THANKS for the really neat e cards that got sent from miss vicki miss susan quinn and miss candace. all those nice cards made me know people could care about me and thats a really good medicine for me and got me my smile back for a while. WOW! i got the most nice friends in the whole of bloggerland and in the whole world.

i gotta say one more really special BIG THANKS to
miss sharon cause she sent me the most neat get well lenny basket. WOWEE! it was a really big and nice surprise for me and got me smiling and feeling happy. i gotta say i cried happy tears cause of feeling lots of love came with that cool basket.

that baskets got 5 different kinds of candy bars and theres two of each one so thats 10! and theres lots more. its got big sizes of peanut m & ms and plain m & ms and a big bag of twizzlers a big box of spree a pack of starburst and 2 really long tootsie rolls. WOWEE! how cool is that! im gonna share with my brothers and sister. its got a big red balloon a big orange balloon and one thats a bright yellow smiley face balloon. that basket is soooooo cool! BIGGY SUPERSIZED THANKS miss sharon!

my super doc says "loving kindness heals!" i feel lots better and my sunshines coming back a little at a time cause of all that loving kindness i been getting.

im hoping im gonna get all better really soon. im hoping people wont stop coming to my blog cause of me not being here for a while. i miss reading all that cool stuff you say on your blogs and putting my comments on them. i miss writing stuff for you to read and say stuff about. but mostly i just miss YOU!

…big hugs from lenny

Monday, September 13, 2010

...good idea!



*you dont need a zillion ideas to be a writer. you could have just only one or just only a few. when your heads full of them you gotta be careful cause you could only write about one thing at one time. some people could do more at one time but not me! its real good to keep those other ideas. write them on a paper and save them. miss jens got a blog bucket for posts so an idea bucket could be real cool.

lots of ideas come from stuff we did in our life and from stuff like movies and talking to people and dreams. sometimes a neat idea just hits you smack in the head... WHAMO like it got there just like magic. you could think on where you get your best ideas and go there if your bucket starts getting empty. for me its sitting and daydreaming mostly outside that i get my most best story ideas.

when you get stuck and nothing comes into your head just get a pen and paper and sit down and stay sitting. start writing stuff on that paper. it could be dumb stuff or happy stuff of junky stuff or lists or descriptions. just anything that gets in your head. let your brain loose. save everything you write and drop it in the bucket cause some day you could use it. thats when you could stop calling it junk and start calling it notes!

now im wondering where YOU get your most best writing ideas?

…smiles and hugs from lenny

*this post is from stuff i learned in my writing book - writing magic creating stories that fly by gail carson levine. thanks miss gail!

Saturday, September 04, 2010

...dogpaddling lifeguards









WOW! these are the most cool dogs ever! (click pic to enlarge) they jump out of coast guard helicopters and speeding boats and they help swimmers who get in trouble and could drown. they work with the coast guard in italy mostly at beaches. theyre called the corps of canine lifeguards and theyve got special training in saving swimmers.

lifedogs wear harnesses or tow boys and swimmers can grab onto them. sometimes they pull a raft to a swimmer so he could climb on and then they pull it back to the beach. the italian coast guard says theyve got hundreds of lifedogs working and every year the coast guard rescues at least 3,000 people and lots of them get saved by these neat dogs.

it takes three years to get a lifedog trained to be a really good life saver and right now theres 300 that are on duty. they get trained at the italian school of cainine lifeguards at a town outside rome. the school trains any breed but they gotta weigh up to at least 66 pounds. labradors, newfoundlands and golden retrievers are used the most because theyre water dogs and love swimming and retrieving.

lifedogs help the lifeguard to not get so tired in the water and get people to the shore a lot faster. theyre real smart and can go in the water and help a person and get him back to the shore all by themselves. they know how to chose the most safe place on the beach and how to swim through the most safe currents.

the dogs love their job and because of being natural retrievers they cant wait to get in the water and get a human and bring him back to the beach. for them saving lives isnt hard work its just a game and a really fun day at the beach.
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hooray for lifedogs!

…smiles and hugs from lenny