Magoo2
July 13th, 2009, 11:15 PM
Stephen King
Re: Dick and Jane Exercise
In 1982 my career choices were: law school or a playwriting (Ph. D. program) Law school was a full ride, no debt gig. The theatre program, not so. I was warned by my Advisor that if I went to law school, they would smash the “real writer” in me (whatever that was) to smithereens. Nawww, I said. That’s just silly. Law school it was. I just can’t do starving. So, I’ve eaten quite well these past couple of decades, turned myself into an excellent legal writer, but could not write dialogue for **** – Ok, well it was ****.
Anyway. Last week, I read this how-to divorce book, thought I could do it better and started A Hitch-Hiker’s Guide to Divorce. In addition to the law stuff, it contains a bunch of client’s stories, a few with almost happy endings. I’ve no experience writing stories. However, it was writing itself at a furious pace. Suddenly stories are popping out of my head like seven year locusts, consuming everything in their path.
Since whatever this is, is nutz, I thought of you. I found On Writing waiting for me at the library. You’re suggestions fit me, my style – philosophy. The Pong my Ping really needed. Freed from whatever was holding him hostage, my muse is working me hard, making up for lost time.
Dick & Jane are great, great fun. My Jane was in reform school for lighting fires. She hates her name and it has something to do with why she lights fires. The story starts when she’s 19 and released. My (your?) Dick is a bank examiner with a magnetic personality he neither understands nor wants. Muffy, roll with me here—tells Jane her name is dull, so Muffy changes Jane into Z-girl. Z-girl and Dick meet first on a bus, then again at the bank he’s audidting – after Muffy , stalker of the first order, finds him for Z-girl who wants to find him, but lacks the guts to do it. Life’s a lark for Muffy.
Jane is now whispering in Z-girl’s ear. Not sure what she’s saying, at the moment, but I’m pretty sure it’s not good for Dick. Somebody, (right now, I’m feeling like it’s Muffy,) is going to burn that house down – probably because she’s really the stalker. But, I haven’t quite gotten that far.
I’m having a simply marvelous time. Your book (On Writing) has been a great inspiration. I wonder if my muse is your book. Hmm.
Zestfully, (seems an appropriate word at the moment)
Kay Tracy
Re: Dick and Jane Exercise
In 1982 my career choices were: law school or a playwriting (Ph. D. program) Law school was a full ride, no debt gig. The theatre program, not so. I was warned by my Advisor that if I went to law school, they would smash the “real writer” in me (whatever that was) to smithereens. Nawww, I said. That’s just silly. Law school it was. I just can’t do starving. So, I’ve eaten quite well these past couple of decades, turned myself into an excellent legal writer, but could not write dialogue for **** – Ok, well it was ****.
Anyway. Last week, I read this how-to divorce book, thought I could do it better and started A Hitch-Hiker’s Guide to Divorce. In addition to the law stuff, it contains a bunch of client’s stories, a few with almost happy endings. I’ve no experience writing stories. However, it was writing itself at a furious pace. Suddenly stories are popping out of my head like seven year locusts, consuming everything in their path.
Since whatever this is, is nutz, I thought of you. I found On Writing waiting for me at the library. You’re suggestions fit me, my style – philosophy. The Pong my Ping really needed. Freed from whatever was holding him hostage, my muse is working me hard, making up for lost time.
Dick & Jane are great, great fun. My Jane was in reform school for lighting fires. She hates her name and it has something to do with why she lights fires. The story starts when she’s 19 and released. My (your?) Dick is a bank examiner with a magnetic personality he neither understands nor wants. Muffy, roll with me here—tells Jane her name is dull, so Muffy changes Jane into Z-girl. Z-girl and Dick meet first on a bus, then again at the bank he’s audidting – after Muffy , stalker of the first order, finds him for Z-girl who wants to find him, but lacks the guts to do it. Life’s a lark for Muffy.
Jane is now whispering in Z-girl’s ear. Not sure what she’s saying, at the moment, but I’m pretty sure it’s not good for Dick. Somebody, (right now, I’m feeling like it’s Muffy,) is going to burn that house down – probably because she’s really the stalker. But, I haven’t quite gotten that far.
I’m having a simply marvelous time. Your book (On Writing) has been a great inspiration. I wonder if my muse is your book. Hmm.
Zestfully, (seems an appropriate word at the moment)
Kay Tracy