Charli Mills prompt this week is
January 11, 2018, prompt: In 99 words (no more, no less) write a story about wet ink. It can be artistic, writerly or something completely off-the-wall. Go where the prompt leads.
‘You write neatly, Morgan.’
‘Teachers always moaned, said I had hooves, not fingers. Called me Smudge.’
‘Why’d you not type?’
‘Can’t get the words right, typing. I need to have wet ink if I want to make progress. Otherwise writing is hard.’
‘That explains it, then.’
‘What does it explain, Logan?’
‘Your call to your mum, about your writing. Last night.’
‘Does it? I don’t recall talking about ink to my mother?’
‘Course not. You used your writerly code. You said, “I’m happy with my WIP”. I wondered what WIP stood for but now I know. Wet Ink Progress.’
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My name is Geoff Le Pard. Once I was a lawyer; now I am a writer. I've published several books: a four book series following Harry Spittle as he grows from hapless student to hapless partner in a London law firm; four others in different genres; a book of poetry; four anthologies of short fiction; and a memoir of my mother. I have several more in the pipeline.
I have been blogging regularly since 2014, on topic as diverse as: poetry based on famous poems; memories from my life; my garden; my dog; a whole variety of short fiction; my attempts at baking and food; travel and the consequent disasters; theatre, film and book reviews; and the occasional thought piece. Mostly it is whatever takes my fancy.
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Ingenious, as always. Love your WIP😂
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It seeps into the fingertips doesn’t it
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Lol! That’s what WIP means really!
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Yep. And you thought it meant wonderful indie publisher
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That’s exactly what I thought! 😉
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Hurrah, that’s a good WIP to come back to. 🙂
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Just another TLA.
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Ha ha, Geoff, brilliant idea.
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It has to be so!
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These two characters! Hooves for fingers!
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Sounds like an accurate acronym to me.
(Are you also, by chance, an HHG2G fan?)
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Oh ‘fan’ doesn’t really do my love affair with St Douglas justice. I’m old enough to have listened to the orinigal radio broadcasts. You too?
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No, though I need to. I simply read through the trilogy enough to think in Adamsspeak quite frequently. My license plate is 42, and I was surprised at how many people keep asking me if it’s a sports jersey number.
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*shocked! A sport number. Noooo! philistines. Troglodytes. Arthropods. Did you know he wrote episodes of Doctor Who before HHG2G? If you’ve not seen this post you may enjoy it https://geofflepard.com/2016/10/17/philosophically-thinking-learnedfrommovies-thhgttg/
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Yes. I’ve read wikipedia. We watched one of the earlier TV films, with Zaphod having a false head. Very odd.
My blog used to be A Wife, My Verse, and Every Little Thing. I’ve got to fiddle with it some more to get that tagline back up. 🙂
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WIP = wet ink progress. Sometimes it seems that way. Clever!
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