*Smiles very big*

Reading my thoughts.

*smiles back…

Vix

I write my stories in a similar fashion. I watch the characters in my head, listen to what they say, and simply record what unfolds in front of me. Sometimes I make gentle adjustments to the course, but rarely steer to a particular destination.

I find it to be fun that way...

Vix

Good advice...knowing when it's time to leave.

exactly so! all is well and settled down?

Vix

Getting there. The cast came off yesterday afternoon. It still hurts on occasion. Her thumb is pretty mobile but the joint just under her thumbnail is stiff from being immobile for 5 weeks, but the rebuilt joint works great and she can grab things better. Monday starts physical therapy. That will help a lot.

Please give her my best...

Vix

Sounds like a certain Suidae is in some mischief

isn't he always?

Vix

Somebody made Buns mad.

Bunners

*laughs... she has her moments...

Vix

Quite a healthy relationship, this one. Reminds me of mine with my grandpa.

my grandpa was cool too... I wish I'd spent more time with him...

Vix

Which is why I have a notebook in the car, and several scattered about the house.

Great story, Vix.

*laughs... ty ty ty Walt...

Vix

Never had a notebook... Put late night imaginings in my phone for the next morning (usually to wonder just what the hell I was dreaming), or decided in my head that I was/am/will be writing a story and set my fingers on the keyboard. As a result, I'm good at scenes, characters and settings, but stories? Meh!

Maybe I need to take a walk, eat a tomato sandwich and keep a notepad at my side when I do...

*smiles... I kinda think you're doing just fine FC...

Vix

I swear... I can hardly write any more. What I do write is printed. I admire you for that...

Vix

I never could do cursive. It was bad in the second grade and has gotten worse ever since. If it wasn't for printing and a Remington Quiet-writer I'd have never gotten through high school and college. And thank God for word processors/desktops and laptops or I'd never been able to accomplish what I have in industry and transportation research. One can hardly read my writing now. When I write up a grocery list, a third party would never understand it. It's like code, but I can still read it weeks later. LOL

I fully understand... if I had to write by hand nothing would ever get finished...

Vix

A good story is knowing when to enter and when to leave it seems.

that does have a lot to do with it...

Vix

And a perfect example of a nice vignette.

*smiles so very big... well thank you Marm...

Vix

Quite the fun, insightful discussion. Shame it had be cut short by an upset bun.

*chuckles... that does happen - but they had finished their lunch...

Vix

I love how the kid's responded were genuine, but seemed so smart alecky. That was really well done. And there's something weirdly philosophical about that line about using a pencil because it's got an eraser.

*chuckles... I was never very good with a pen...

Vix

Don't shoot me for this but I was left but with one question...







Do old skunks smell worse than young ones?

bwahahahahahahahahahahahahhaha... I don't actually know...

Vix

For years I would get ideas for stories (or ideas for projects I had already begun) and write them on any scrap of paper I could find. I still have many of my old ones from the late 90's, written on pieces of garment backing paper from when I made my living at an industrial sewing machine. Label backings, old envelopes, paper snitched from a printer... anything to carry the words long enough for me to get home to the keyboard.

Kinda wish I'd had a grandfather like James.

*hugs*

*smiles so very big... me too... *hugs back...

Vix