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janedavitt

Go to page 123 (or 23 or 3 if it hasn't got that far yet) of your current WiP. Read down four sentences. Type out the paragraph that follows.

Well I have 2 on the go at the moment, one at 18 pages so far, the other a mere 4 and a half.

From the longer one, I find;

"I flirted with my son’s partner because it’s what I do. Jim was a little bemused by me, I could see that and I had fun teasing him. I couldn’t resist; he seemed so straight, so whitebread, so entirely wrong as a companion for my Blair. How wrong I was about that – about a lot of things. I had no idea, then, that he would ask about my deepest, darkest secret, or that I would end up confessing it to him. Even now, I don’t really know why I told him, a man I’d only just met. Sometimes you just have to go with your instincts, and Jim seemed so solid, so trustworthy, so safe. "

Hmmmm.

From the shorter one;
"We both know that’s not true, Chief. Don’t feel you have to be stronger than you are.”

Well that's illuminating! (hee!)

I'm really enjoying both of these. #1 - I already know where that's going to go and it's an interesting concept, with lots of 1st person, but  I'm not anticipating anything unexpected. I'm getting much more fun out of #2, which I only started today - 2,000 words in and it's already surprised me by taking a turn I hadn't planned. And I can't help but feel it's going to be very, very long.

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