I’m not too familiar with writer’s block. As a mostly nonfiction writer, I am bombarded daily with story ideas about real happenings and people, and all I have to do is find the time and energy to put pen to paper (or fingers to keyboard).
Still, every time an idea comes along—for a fiction or nonfiction story—I jot it down. Like most writers, my notebook dangles at my side like an extra appendage (except when I’m in the shower or in bed. Well, sometimes in bed. And I’ve been known to eek out a few words in the water vapor on the shower door).
So when a well-known author friend, widely recognized for his eloquent prose, wrote and told me that an excerpt from my email (“In the meantime, since we have no funerals this week…”) is a good line and that I should use it in a story, it went in the notebook. And on Facebook, just for fun.
Then came several “likes” and a few responses from other writers on FB:
“He’s right!”
“It’s a great beginning line. Who wouldn’t want to continue to read?”
“That’s a great sentence! I might even steal it for a story of mine…if you don’t object that is.” (I don’t.)
So steal away! What line would come next, if you were writing this story?
In the meantime, since we have no funerals this week, I might as well get the embalming fluid order ready to go and head down to the Stop ‘n Shop to pick up a Rug Doctor, since I’ll have plenty of time to clean the Paradise Room and the Colonial Room, Foor and Evers Funeral Home’s largest slumber rooms.
In the meantime, since we have no funerals this week, I can bake some cookies instead of another damn casserole.
…I can take my little black dress to the cleaners. Maybe they can get that bloodstain out.
Kim and Marybeth, perfect! How can I top that? (But I’ll work on it…)
Linda, love this one. Thanks!
In the meantime, since we have no funerals this week, I can finally close up for a few days and get some fishing in. I expect another mangled body will show up right after the full moon, just like the last eight months. Come to think of it, that’s when my blackouts started.
Liking this one, Tom. Confessions of a serial killer!
In the meantime, since we have no funerals this week, I can get on facebook and make some new friends to fill in the spaces or become famous and let them fill in the spaces.
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