Writing in the Dead Zone

[peadarog]

Working through the third draft of The Volunteer yesterday, I came across a Dead Zone

Comments

[snapes_angel]

If worst comes, try throwing in a random element, and see how that goes. I vote for a cat. 3:)

[peadarog]

But which cat? It is important, according to the writing manuals to be specific...

[snapes_angel]

You should keep a few in stock. There's the towel-stealing kleptomaniac cat, the seat-hogging cat, the leapfrog cat, the perpetually invisible (meaning, you do not see said cat until the last minute, or when it';s too late, though you are sort of peripherally aware that it is there) cat.....

[peadarog]

So many moggies, so little time...

[bogwitch64]

Chocolate makes everything better. Everything.

[irishkate]

This!

[peadarog]

And bananas, of course...

[msstacy13]

Bananas are good,
but things don't just seem better after chocolate,
they really are better.

[regina_of_york]

Lack of chocolate affects everything, including writing.  Glad you found some!

[peadarog]

I make sure it is always easy to find in this house ;)

[purplebookfairy]

Chocolate is always a good thing. Especially with high cocoa content. It's even healthy!

[peadarog]

And I need that right now, as you know...

[purplebookfairy]

What are you waiting for?

[peadarog]

The perfect bar...

[sermelt]

When I lived in Spain with the nippers, when they were proper wee, we had a 2K walk home from town, 3K if we had gone to visit our mates. I devised a staged system, where by the four children aged 8, 6, 4 and 2 were given squares of 70% cocoa mega choc at the check-in points. Total winner.

I was once told by a wise old sage, if all else fails kick a door in.

[sermelt]

oops - that's, kick _the_ door in.

[peadarog]

Because there can be only one... door, that is...

And what a great system! Cheaper than heroin and legal in most parts of the world.

[snapes_angel]