HAPPY BIRTHDAY DR SEUSS

I finished THE HIGHER ROAD. 

I changed the name at the last second. I like to think it is an "-er" away from the cliché. :)

Including thinking about the advice and completing the manuscript, the process of changing the novel from 3rd to 1st person, and increasing the word count, took seventeen days. 

"Guessing what was happening, the whole time, was wearing me out." I hadn't realised I had shifted too far along the "show" verse "tell" slide. 

It is done and I even got it into the post on time!

That is me finished *zip-shut-and-schtum! HIGH ROAD? What high road? ;)

THIS IS THE POST OF THE DAY:

I'm a day early.

Early is keen.

I wrote a poem... I hear plagiarism doesn't count if you include it in poetry ;)

Happb Birthday, Dr Seuss

At the end of the shelf

The teacher said, “Look,

if you’ve finished your work

you could look at a book.”

I stood there with Gerard.

We  stood there, we two.

And I said, “How I wish

they were int’resting too.”

We were too young for

fat books… the print was too small.

They had black blobs and dots

that did nothing at all.

We were too old for

books with a word on each page.

The pictures were nice

But we’d moved past that stage.

So all we could do was to

go with the fat.

And we faked some good reading

Turned the pages and that.

And then

Something went BUMP!
And it wasn't a door

How that bump made us jump
when it crashed to the floor!

We looked

And we saw a strange book on the mat!

We looked and we saw it!

The Cat in the Hat!

With his bow and umbrella

With his hands out... so funny.

The cat in striped hat made

The classroom seem sunny.

“I know a good place.

We could read this all day,”

said the boy

who I knew was addicted to play.

The pictures were brilliant.

Reading wasn’t a fight.

The story was bad.

We found bad was just right.

We ate up the story

Of boxes and hooks

The fish and the Things

We’d found inside the book.

With the bell, we both ran.

Mum said, “What did you play?”

We said, "Nothing…  Dr Seuss made

made us readers today."

Happy Birthday Theodor Seuss Geisel.

Dr Seuss is timeless. There is only one other doctor I know who is like that. 

The colours of my early years were black and white, and blue and read - thanks to Dr Seuss.

WHAT WAS THE COLOUR OF YOUR EARLY YEARS?