Book Fair

David's book fair is today, will try to post a picture. It was about the "Dragon of the Red Dawn" by Mary Pope Osborne. He did a lot of the work himself, but I have to honestly say that Todd and I did about 40% each. He made a beautiful diorama of the mountain top near Edo (old Tokyo), with a dragon and Jack and Annie figures riding its back.

I helped David type the information on the book, found pictures from the Internet, and helped him put them on the posterboard.

I think it's a little busy, now that it's done, but it's very cute.

It includes some poetry, including Basho's haiku Old Pond:



The best-known Japanese haiku is Bashō's "old pond":
古池や　蛙飛込む　水の音
furuike ya kawazu tobikomu mizu no oto

"An Old Pond
A frog jumps in
The sound of water."



So two days ago David tried his hand at writing a poem:

Flowers

The flowers bloom in the day,
but corals
Are active at night

A poem by David Hinote

What can I say?? The kid is simply brilliant!




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Nano progress:

I had a snafu earlier today, working in Scrivener. I went to delete the title of a scene, to change it I think (can't remember, was so flustered)--and I deleted the ENTIRE scene!

A happy accident maybe. I just finished rewriting that scene and I think it's better now.

Happy writing everyone!