I’m still getting to the scene where Eli and Chelsea meet the kids. I don’t have a washer and dryer in the new apartment so I took clothes downstairs and sat there and outlined the whole rest of the story. I have a blank space for one day but most of it is figured out. Laura EM, yes! During a book I’ll have something in my head but forget to write it down. In one book, I don’t remember which one, the hero was in love with the heroine and he kept referring to it. When Linda read it, she pointed out that I’d never told how the man felt. As always, I was sure she was wrong, so I went back and searched. As always, Linda was right. I fixed it by adding one sentence but it made a great deal of difference. “Didn’t I tell that?” is a very common thing for me to say. I agree on annoying characters. Since some of you aren’t married, I’ll tell you a problem I have. In movies, TV, and books, when an older, single man comes into the story, immediately there are a lot of women on his doorstep with casseroles. The joke is that every older, unmarried woman is desperate to get a man. Unfortunately, people seem to think this old adage is true. What has happened to me so many times I can’t count is that when I meet an older, unmarried man, he believes it’s his choice — not mine — but HIS of whether or not he’ll move in with me. There’s no talk of love or even friendship, just move in and let me take care of him forever. When I politely turn down his offer, he gets furious with me. Hates me. Some man wanting to move in with me has become so common that I just have to say a few words and Linda and I fall into howls of laughter. I keep thinking of some way to put this in a book, but I wonder if it’s universal enough to make people get the joke. Have any of you experienced this? You have any interesting come-on stories in your life? Jude
Posted on: Wed, 19 Mar 2014 09:00:00 +0000
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