January 2, 2025

Random thought: This morning I burped and said “Pardon me.” Trump said “Granted!”

Inspired by my recent adventures in toe surgery (as the patient, not the surgeon this time), Pete L of San Jose generously offered up the prompt used to generate this week’s tale. If you don’t like the story, I can provide Pete’s email so you can go straight to the source.

Since you probably can’t wait any longer, here’s the Story of the Week.

         He Has Rights Too

“What are you saying?” Myra asked. “You mean you’re clumsy or something?”

Eddie pointed at his shoes. “I wish. When I say I have two left feet, I mean I literally have two left feet.”

Myrna gawked at his shoes. “That’s wild!”

Eddie nodded. “Yeah. I’m a bi-monopod.”

“Wait—you’re serious. Are there… many of you?”

“No, but fortunately I’ve met ladies on our dating sites. We have Stumble, Feet Harmony, and my favorite—Sole Mates.”

Myra frowned. “You’re just messing with me. That’s mean. Why you gotta be pulling my leg like that?”

Pulling your leg? Now who’s being mean?”

Prompt: My Left Foot

Novel News & Notes:

Since last week’s post, I’ve moved on to the next step in the never-ending quest to write Questionable Characters, my not-so-little novel that slowly moves toward its (eventual) finish line. I finished my “pleasure” read, and I’m happy to say that I’m still liking what I have. My biggest issue continues to be an overarching belief that I have lots to work with. More than lots, in fact, which is good. Much easier to trim the fat than to create new stuff. I’m now going to outline what I’ve written and see how well it matches up with the structure model I’m using. My gut tells me I’m probably hitting most of the key story beats in the right order, but that I’m probably taking too long to get to some of them. This is where the editing will come in.

After I have a good handle on that part, I plan to develop a new outline. If I feel like I can make adjustments without having to do a major rewrite, I’ll probably do that and then send the new draft over to my editor. It would be great if I can do this over the next few weeks. We’ll see.

As always, thanks for listening.

Scotty out

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