Good morning and Happy #WordPressWednesday to you All.
This morning, Abbie shares with us a bit about her writerly self in her younger years.
Personally, I think some of what she speaks of here would make great material for short stories which could be used to promote.
I don’t know why I didn’t aspire to be a writer much earlier in life. Even as a kid, I had stories in my head that I never wrote down.
While reading Nancy Drew mysteries, I imagined that Nancy and her boyfriend Ned were married, and they adopted me. Nancy’s friends, George and Bess, married their boyfriends, Burt and Dave, and each couple adopted a girl my age. Being in junior high, we weren’t into boys yet. So, the three of us solved mysteries together.
When I was in high school, I fantasized that I was the bionic woman, leaving Nancy Drew’s hometown of River Heights behind and solving more serious crimes. In my fantasy, I married a bionic man at the age of sixteen, and by the time I was eighteen or nineteen, I had two kids who were not bionic.
In college, I replaced this story with another…
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Patty, I’m glad you think my crazy ideas would make good short stories. The novel idea about the young woman in New Mexico might work, but the others are a bit outlandish, in my opinion. Thank you for reblogging.
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There is nothing outlandish about make-believe. There is nothing outlandish about using your imagination and writing things that are so far out of reality that we are taken away from today’s daily grind! Open your mind open your heart open your wings and fly! What’s the worst thing that can happen?
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