WRITING TIPS - TUESDAY, Dec 19, 2023 wk#51 - BLOG EDITION

Rough Crowd is more than just another pretty face.

OK, You’ve got me. i wouldn’t know a dangling participle if it were dangling from my nose. so please don’t look for a lot of theory here. We may not be able to define it, but we’ll know it when we see it. I intend to tell you what I have discovered what does and doesn’t work at least for me.

In fact, a lot of people would like to write, and if they squint just right, can even see themselves as writers. I believe the CDC in Atlanta has released data that says 87.4 percent of Americans wish they were writers, actually more than the number of people who prefer candy mints to breath mints.

It’s been a fruitful and productive morning so far, and I’m feeling a bit peckish, perhaps hungry for a big plate of writer’s nachos.

That is the way we writers live, off the cuff, unfiltered, and unscripted. The gate left open. Driving it like we stole it.

To top it off, many of us big-time writers have people who prepare our nachos.

And salsa can RUIN a tuxedo if you know what I mean.

Back to the writer’s life. This morning I pounded the old keyboard a while- a little hunt-and-peck until peckish, as it were. After lunch, I will go outside in the sun while the pool boy tidys up after last night’s party. It’s quite a job, but my physical therapist recommended I get out and get some exercise, and I’m sure watching the pool guy qualifies. Big, old long-handeled, heavy net and all. 5-quart jugs of HTH. OOF.

Have you ever done chores that were so difficult, that you had to use ALL CAPS to even talk about them?

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