writingforradio - The Monday Morning Memo

Eduardo Prado of Guatemala (left) invited the wizard and the princess to dinner in his home there 15 years ago. Chris Maddock (right) accompanied them to Guatemala so that he might climb the nearby mountains and sample the local beer. The wizard snapped this photo of Eduardo and Chris after a delightful evening’s conversation. Chris Maddock teaches a number of classes at Wizard Academy. One of them, How to Write for Radio and the Internet, also features co-instructor Jeff Sexton. It really is an amazing class. This sounds like a sales pitch, right? Nope. We don’t even have the next session posted on the schedule. You’ll just have to remember to notice it when it does appear.

“That was how the Count and his sister would brave the cold on Christmas Eve. Promising their grandmother that they would be no later than midnight, the siblings would set out on their troika into the crisp night air to call on their neighbors. With the Count at the reins and the pelt of a wolf on their laps, they would cut across the lower pasture to the village road, where the Count would call: Who shall it be first? The Bobrinskys? Or the Davidovs?

But whether they ventured to the one, the other, or somewhere else entirely, there would be a feast, a fire, and open arms. There would be bright dresses, and flushed skin, and sentimental uncles making misty-eyed toasts as children spied from the stairs. And music? There would be songs that emptied your glass and called you to your feet. Songs that led you to leap and alight in a manner that belied your age. Songs that made you reel and spin until you lost your bearings not only between the parlor and the salon, but between heaven and earth.”

- A Gentleman in Moscow, p. 88-89

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