Saturday Night Silliness -- Random Musings of a Writer Lady and Her Cat.

Which brings us to Stage Four: Somewhere around the end of year three the beginning of year four you will begin to hear this question: “Don’t you get lonely?” Yes. You will. And not just once. People will ask you this repeatedly.   I’m not sure why. I don’t know if people think that I’m lying or are just trying to wear me down. Yeah. I get lonely. But it’s like every other feeling, it passes.” Tessa hears a voice from the audience say, “Hunger is a feeling too. It passes, but if you ignore it, it keeps returning. Stronger and more insistent each time it returns.” She thinks about her answer and grins. “ Yes. When my “hunger” is strong enough and the right candy bar, pie, or roast beef sandwich is in front of me I will...” Tessa stopped typing and wondered if she was using the appropriate analogy for this topic. Her phone buzzed. That’s good. Keep it going. --Chty. “How do you know it’s good?” Tessa asked the phone. Your laptop is connected into our system. W

Don’t write that lonely, single girl crap. I hate that. Oh and Brad will love the piece if you make it funny. -- Chty Tessa looked at the clock. Four pm. "I guess I’ll just write something and hope that it can be carved into something better." She muttered to herself. “So, why are you single?” Everyone has heard that question at one time in their lives or another. I want to ask, why? Why do single people have to explain why they’re single if married people don’t have to explain why they’re married? It’s such a common question. But a rude one that our society has accepted as okay. No, No, NO! That is not funny. At all. Tessa had been single for seven years. In 2019, it would be eight. After the first three to five years of explaining her single status it had become tiring. She noticed that after the first five years, people had started to wonder what was wrong with her because she had been single for so long. The questions became m

                                                                The Stages Of Not Dating And How To Explain It To Family And Friends                                                         By                                                 Tessa TrueBlue (Brad’s first note read) Title Too Long When one has not dated for a while, parties and family gatherings can become quite uncomfortable. A regular day at the office can feel more like a dating site interview than a job. (Brad’s other note stated) Story too detached. Make more personal. Tessa looked at the lines running through her copy and sighed. She looked at the clock. “He didn’t like it.” Tessa’s co-worker, Charity commented. “It’s nearly two. You’d better get cracking if you want to make tomorrow’s edition.” “I wrote this piece the same way that

When I began writing this story, I thought that I knew what the end of it would look like. Writers always do. We all think that we are the captain of our ships. Mighty creators. Not usually. Usually we are the pale, tired, slobs that get to run around behind those characters and write down what they do. As it turns out, Vin had her own story to tell and Earnest who was supposed to have the equivalent of a walk-on in a film kept popping up. I would say like a bad penny but Earnest is not a bad penny. He never has been one so saying that would not only be untrue but be decidedly unladylike. Mom really emphasized the being a lady thing and the independence thing and the encouragement of intellectual thought thing. We didn’t talk about run on sentences enough apparently or it never sunk in. Take your pick. At the end of the day, this was Vin’s story and I was just the pale slob following her. She is a character that I cannot ever imagine forgetting. I wish her and Ea