Writer Mick: Blog

Hi All

This is a comment posted after "The Depositor". He is the only reader who comments that got my point of view.

This is is comment:

BlueEyedGuy 10/11/2021, 4:20:49 PM

A well written piece. Vignette style a la "The Twilight Zone" or "Outer Limits".

The epilogue repeating the opening scene except with a change in the main character just reinforces that "Twilight Zone"/"Outer Limits" association.

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Thanks BlueEyeGuy! Well done sir.

Mick

Hi All

So I went to a local sports bar to watch some games and do some writing on one of the too many open stories I have.

When I got there, I reached in my pocket and found no thumb drive! No files! Nothing to do, but let my imagination run a little amok.

The result is "The Depositor" with no editing and minimal speel checking. Let me know and I'll fix errors.

Mick

Hi All

I'm afraid that I've been a bad boy and got myself into writing four stories all at the same time. I could begin posting chapters on the unfinished stories, but I swore I would never start posting a story until I was done writing it.

Luckily I have had a change of schedules at work and I now have three hours a day I can dedicate to writing. I can't give a date, because I write one until a thought occurs to me about another and I shift work to that repeat, repeat, repeat!

I appreciate all of the interest and concern my readers have expressed.

At this time, "The Strength of The O'Dells" has five chapters done, The Strawberry Patch: Babies Please Don't Go" has 17 chapters done, "On Guard" has 8 chapters done, and finally "I Was Sitting At Home With My Family On A Saturday Afternoon" has 6 chapters done.

Bear with me.

Mick

Hi All

Long time!

I hate unfinished stories on SOL. Drives me crazier than I already am!

Having said that, I just counted and I have almost a dozen unfinished stories in my files. The obvious ones are "The Strawberry Patch" and "The O'Dells" but there are so many more that I consider good stories.

The problem is that I get to a certain point and the characters don't know how to end the story. I have a couple of doozies!

How about one where a loving couple, once a year go on separate sex vacations? Or one where a former Marine sniper has a stripper for a wife, who works for a Mafia bar owner that wants her to hook for him? Or maybe a coach who goes to a strip club with other coaches and finds that one of his former athletes is the star of the Shower and Hour show? Or a coming of age story about some cousins told from holiday to holiday starting at the kids table at Thanksgiving? Or how about the first nudist colony on the Moon?

I need to buckle down and finish The Strawberry Patch and then The O'Dells. With Covid going away by me my schedule finally is getting stable.

Bear with me.

Mick

Hi All

Well the competitive season is over. I now can have a few mornings where I sleep until I wake up instead of when the alarm goes off.

With no practices to write, or run, and not much office work for several weeks, I can get back into the habit of writing. I feel so far behind.

It's also the first year that I haven't had an athlete that works with me or who had worked with me in the Olympics. The Games don't hold much magic for me, having been behind the curtain.

If you ever want to read something that will set you off about "amateur"sports, read "The Lords of the Rings" and "The New Lords of the Rings" by Andrew Jennings.

Nuff said

Mick