An oldie, but a goodie! Silent monks “singing” Handel’s “Hallelujah Chorus.” Makes me smile every time I see it.

Today’s video is a long one (11 minutes) but is the perfect break from your busy day … to learn how this man folds amazing paper airplanes for world records. You finished your Black Friday and Cyber Monday shopping. You finished NaNoWriMo (if you are a novelist). You deserve a break. And by the way, at the 2:30 mark, the fellow has a book too. So he is a fellow author. Enjoy!

Today is a big shopping day across the country. Argos, a UK-based retailer, starts it off with this fun video about shopping for the right gift. Too much fun!  

I totally would have done this to my daughters if I had thought of it. It is also a bit of a metaphor for clarity in our writing. If the reader misunderstands it whose fault is it? The reader? The writer? Or simply blame the editor, that nameless person who labors in the shadows. Even better, blame the literary agent!!! Thanks for the link: Trissina Kear (my daughter)

This video gives mind-blowing facts about linguistics. In particular, how pronunciation has changed over time. Thus, if you are writing a historical novel, be careful in assuming the words you use meant the same in your era and that they they were pronounced like they are today. Made me think of older poetry or song lyrics and some rhyming couplets. No wonder they sometimes don’t rhyme when …

This video is what you need to go outside and do today. If not literally, do it imaginatively. It’s important to take the proverbial happy break. And what better way than in a pile of leaves? The last bit of the video is an illustration of finding the “needle in the haystack!”  

A video about an unusual intern’s visit to Penguin Random House. I bet they were paid like a typical volunteer intern, except a little fishier! Enjoy! Makes one wonder what publishers like Blink, WaterBrook, Cook, Tyndale, Lion, Orbit, or Skyhorse could do with this idea!

Today’s video describes when a Tuba player is having too much fun. Reminds me of hearing that a writer produced 15,000 words in one day’s work. Enjoy the world-record for fastest performance of “The Flight of the Bumblebee” … on a tuba!

Today’s video is a dad, Ben Moseley, singing to his newborn daughter. Too precious for words.