Q: A straight woman who hangs around gay men has many unflattering names, but what do you call a straight man who hangs around lesbians?
A: An optimist.
It's not much as far as a written work goes, but I'm going to count that as my 9th #WritAWeek2018 thing. I've lost track of which week we are into 2018...
According to my calendar, this upcoming Tuesday begins the eighth actual calendar week of this year. So, I'm ahead of schedule! YES. If I start slacking off around the middle of the year, I'll still be able to keep up if I stay productive these first few months writing things like stories, essays, jokes, and poems...
Speaking of which... I thought of another story I want to write, but I haven't gotten to it yet. It's been on my mind a LOT lately, so I doubt I'll forget. This is going to take some exposition...
Around 1999 (YIKES), I wrote a story called "Change for a Dollar." It's really dated in that it centers around a pay phone robbery to retrieve a lost bicentennial quarter, stolen from a prized collection given to the antagonist by his grandmother. Because life imitates art, MY grandmother recently gave me and all of her other grandchildren rolls of bicentennial quarters, just like in this story I wrote almost two decades ago. So I got to thinking a lot about that story, and it made me want to revisit the characters...
At the end of that story, an arrest is implied. Someone is framed for murder. That was almost 20 years ago, when pay phones were still commonplace. If that story were true, the framed individual would probably just be getting paroled right about now. And they would likely want revenge. So... the seeds of a sequel were planted, and those seeds have been growing. Pretty soon, I'll be ready to write the story. I'll have to post the original story for reference, but I think I want to edit it first to make sure it leads into the sequel I've come up with.
And on that note, I think I'll go revisit that story... now! TTFN