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Today's Blogtember prompt put a lot of us out of our elements: a fiction prompt. I was happy to give it a shot since I've been tossing around the idea of participating in NanoWriMo. I was also happy to give it a shot because I couldn't think of anything more perfect than sitting on my back porch, wrapped in a blanket, listening to the rain, creating an imaginary [4 paragraph] world.
The prompt: A piece of fiction that starts with:
To say I was dreading the dinner party would be the understatement of the century.
The second shipment of our things was lost somewhere over the Atlantic, so I was stuck with one of two outfits:my travel outfit, leggings and a giant t-shirt, or my unpacking outfit, leggings and a slightly smaller t-shirt.
"You look beautiful," Sam reassured me.
"Your lying hasn't improved recently," I reassured him.
He couldn't possibly expect me to meet his new boss and her wife in a t-shirt. It was so... American. "I should just throw on a fanny pack to complete the ensemble," I said.
We moved to Amsterdam five days ago, and I might as well have had a scarlet "A" on my chest. American.
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The story had to stop there, my friends, because this is what happens when you stop keeping track of your dog to focus on your blog:
Oh, Ike! I was just getting into this story!
ReplyDeleteReally - you should do NanoWriMo. You would come up with something great... this was a fun start.
YOUR DOG is so cute!!!! Your fiction-writing surroundings sound ideal. You could finish a book in that kind of environment.
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