Writerly Ways

[cornerofmadness]

Have you ever run across a little tidbit, maybe a snatch of conversation, a strange suit, a sign etc and file it away for working into a story? I do and that's where I am today.

Like the fact that it was 65 yesterday and is going to snow tomorrow....

Or that I ran past an antique store in Marietta called Dead People's Stuff. Sadly it was closed but I'm like yes, I need to use this somewhere. I also had the thought about how Millenials and Gen Z do not want antiques, like at all, (hell much of Gen X doesn't either) and how antique stores are failing. I'm like I could make a ghost story out of this.

I also drove down Front Street and saw a funeral home in a historic house across the street from a small park that ambles down to the Ohio River. I heard the whispers of two people about how this is their funeral home and they own the park as a place to be quiet and contemplative in a funeral. I'm like no one has time for you right now.

So has this sort of thing happened to you?


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[angelofthenorth]

I'm forever sitting in cafes and listening in to snatches of conversation