Would you order desert or dessert after dinner? Do you device a plan or devise a plan? Is the grass wet with dew, do, or due in the morning? If you wish to change the color of a shirt, would you die it or dye it? deprecation, depreciation Deprecation is earnest disapproval. Miranda’s deprecation of the…
On December 31, will your character celebrate New Year’s Eve? Or will he celebrate one of the other holidays that are also on this day? Maybe she will choose Make Up Your Mind Day. How about No Interruptions Day or Unlucky Day? Which holiday appeals to your character? Make Up Your Mind Day is celebrated on…
April Hale has Asperger’s syndrome, a form of autism. She has some major issues expressing or feeling emotions, and when she becomes upset, she tends to speak like Yoda. She is obsessed with movies, especially Star Wars. April’s family lives next door to the Blacks. They are awakened each morning by the Blacks fighting. April…
Would a good friend be decent, descent, or dissent? When you show respect to someone, are you being deferential or differential? Does a bomb need to be defused or diffused? If a town is filled with corruption, is it full of depravation or deprivation? decease, disease Decease is the act of dying or departing from life.…
Houses are burning down for no reason. People are spontaneously combusting. An alien life form is stranded. And then there’s the ice cream. Buying a cone or ice cream sandwich from the ice cream man could change your life forever. Lacy, a single mom, leaves her eleven- and twelve-year-old children old home alone while she…
What will you use your flashlight for on National Flashlight Day? How deep into your family’s roots will you dig on Roots Day? What origins you will create for Take it in the Ear Day? How frantic will you become as the time slowly ticks away on Tick Tock Day? National Flashlight Day – December 21 is also…
How long could you survive if you were lost in the Colorado wilderness during a blizzard? When Amy Raye was a child, her grandfather taught her to hunt. The love of doing this has never left her; it has only grown. On a hunting expedition with two friends, Amy decides to go out on her…
Has the nosy Miss Marble finally met her match? I grew up reading Agatha Christie’s mysteries. I own all of them, and their covers are worn from being read so many times. No criminal could get away with any wrongdoing if Miss Marple happened to be in the vicinity. With her long history of solving…
Will you write a letter to Santa on Santa’s Letter Writing Day? On Dewey Decimal System Day, will you learn about why this neat way of organizing books was created? How many wagers will you win on Phileas Fogg Win a Wager Day? Santa’s Letter Writing Day – Do you know a child who doesn’t…
During the first few months of 2010, a friend of mine somehow talked me into writing a project based on the assumption that the 12/22/12 craze had some momentum. She had explained that it was quite a hot topic and I should jump on the bandwagon and run with a story about the end of…
