Dueling percussionists! Enjoy today’s Fun Friday! What they must have been like in their high school marching band pit:

Sit back and let this performance wash over you. Turn the volume up. “Shall We Gather at the River.” Gorgeous. HT: Dick Malone

I title today’s video “Leave it to the proofreader to find the ONE mistake in your entire masterpiece.” HAHA!

Today’s clever short movie is called The Black Hole (less than three minutes long). I’ll admit, I laughed at the end. What would you have named this if you had written this short story? (A story without words.)

Let us watch today’s video as a metaphor for writing a book. Piece by piece. Nail by nail. And you have to know what you are doing, or it all collapses. This is why you get annoyed when people say to you, “I’m going to write a book someday,” as if it were easy. Note something about the video. Your foundation has to be absolutely correct because everything depends on it. …

A language lesson in todays’ video. Enjoy! However, don’t go swimming near sharks with this group if you are English-only. One will shout, “Shark!” The others will shout, “Hi!”    

Writing to a formula is everywhere. Today’s video shows the creation of every Hollywood movie trailer without a single picture. Figure out the formula for your next book yet?

You must turn up the volume for today’s video to appreciate the sublime ridiculousness of what you are about to see. Writers? Creativity can come from anywhere!!!

With the American football season upon us, some of you fans may enjoy today’s video. But now you viewers must devise a metaphor for the writing life from what you saw!