haven’t had my coffee yet
So, why is it that at five in the morning, when I can’t go to bed, all I want to do is go to sleep, and at eight-thirty when I could go to bed, I’m wide awake? Conundrum.
One of the contest categories for the Ozark Creative Writers’ Contest is a ‘Hook Me, Award’. The entries can only be the first 500 words of a novel or short story. The hook to get the reader hooked. Get it? It took a lot of cutting, but I finally got the hook of ‘Emmen Seed’ down to 500 words. It was like having bamboo shoots stuck under my fingernails. Painful, disfiguring, an experience I hope not repeat any time soon.
Although, there is a similar category called the ‘3-3-1 Editor’s delight’. Submit the first 3 pages of a novel manuscript, a 3 page synopsis, and a 1 page jacket copy. Neither of these categories is designed for someone like me. I can’t say hello in less than 5 pages or 500 words. But I can’t resist a good challenge. So next project is, you guessed it, ‘3-3-1′.
Speaking of a challenge; travel has become a hell of a challenge these days. How can anyone expect a woman to travel without mascara? I’m not a girly-girl but even I want to touch up my mascara and lipstick before I get off a plane.
Not to mention the stinky foot situation. Airlines are making people take their shoes off for inspection! Imagine making a minimum wage to inspect people’s nasty shoes, for potential explosives, for eight hours a day. Bet they have a lot of early retirements this year.
Some international flights have banned electronics in the carry on bags. I wouldn’t be able to sit on a plane for hours without my laptop. My next trip has a two-hour lay over. We’re talking over six hours total travel time if there aren’t any delays. Suddenly I understand why that woman went crazy in-flight this week. Take a writers laptop away for six hours and there will be panic and mayhem.
Before you know it we will need a passport to drive across state lines. Of course with the cost of gas these days, no one can afford to drive across state lines. Tourism will suffer. Airlines will go belly up, without explosives, and cars will become extinct. But by gosh the cable company will prosper because everyone will be stuck in their homes with their mates and their offspring.
Spouse and infant mortality will hit an all time high. Who said, “There is nothing to fear, but fear itself?” Wrong. It’s giving me a migraine!
Time for naprosyn and a nap.
Peace be with you,
vck
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