Thursday, January 12, 2006

Testing Heather

All day I've been running through different scenarios for my novella Kasper Clarke, testing them in my mind, examining them from different angles to see how they'd fit in. . . . Obsessing, basically.

So here's something lighter:

My four-year-old asked me to test her.

"Okay, count backwards from 20 to zero," I said.

This she did, effortlessly.

"What comes after Q in the alphabet?"

"R!"

"And what comes before L?"

This took a little thought, but she got there in the end. "K!"

"Very good. Um. Oh, I know, who is Luke Skywalker's dad?"

And this child, who I know has never seen a Star Wars film, said "Darth Vadar!"

On seeing my puzzled expression, she grinned and added, "Nice try, Dad."

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