A bit about NC
NC Weil has a BA in Russian Language & Literature from University of Colorado in Boulder, and though she has no Russian ancestry she's aware of, Dostoyevsky spoke to her early on, followed by Tolstoy, Tarkovsky and others.
She has a large collection of toast cartoons.
She enjoys languages, wordplay, and the fun of inventing new words whose place in the lexicon has been blank.
Pictured here: she reads a short story at Denver's Mercury Cafe during one of Ed Ward's "Stories, Stories, Bring Your Stories" evenings.
She has a large collection of toast cartoons.
She enjoys languages, wordplay, and the fun of inventing new words whose place in the lexicon has been blank.
Pictured here: she reads a short story at Denver's Mercury Cafe during one of Ed Ward's "Stories, Stories, Bring Your Stories" evenings.
Live Language Corner
Triposphere - the level at which travel occurs (might be surface, on a trail or road, might be at 30,000 feet) -
if you're in the triposphere, you're on your way someplace.
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Snifficance - when official curiosity gets closer than you'd like: "There was too much snifficance to his questions - I just ended up offering variants of I don't know or oh really."
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Intimition - intuition with respect to time. "He wasn't sure when he'd get there but when my intimition said to go, I did, and he was just arriving."
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For more word invention, visit Urban Dictionary
if you're in the triposphere, you're on your way someplace.
...
Snifficance - when official curiosity gets closer than you'd like: "There was too much snifficance to his questions - I just ended up offering variants of I don't know or oh really."
..
Intimition - intuition with respect to time. "He wasn't sure when he'd get there but when my intimition said to go, I did, and he was just arriving."
...
For more word invention, visit Urban Dictionary
Recent Reads
The People's Act of Love by James Meek
Suite Francaise by Irene Nemirovsky The Known World by Edward P. Jones The Translator by John Crowley The Dream Life of Sukhanov by Olga Grushin The House on Q Street by Ann L. McLaughlin The Bowl is Already Broken by Mary Kay Zuravleff Moby Dick by Herman Melville and a great many short stories |
Organizations
NC is a member of Women's National Book Association ("the other WNBA"), for which she serves as Co-Chair for the National Website Committee, and also in the Washington, DC Chapter as newsletter editor. This organization, founded in 1917, is a nonprofit professional association of women and men who work with and value books. WNBA exists to promote reading and to support the role of women in the community of the book.
NC is also active in Rocky Mountain Fiction Writers, and works on environmental cleanup projects in her neighborhood and city. |