Why, hello there, Wednesday. You sure crept up on me.
It’s been a busy week. I’m posting today, but I’ll probably skip next week because of my son’s school musical. I’m on the hair and makeup committee, charged with re-creating 1950s boys’ hairstyles for the cast (They’re doing Grease: The School Version). My own kid has stick-straight, fine hair, so there’s pretty much no possible way we’re achieving John Travolta’s ‘do for this thing. I have industrial strength hair gel, though, so there’s that.
Down to business. My ROW80 Goal Updates:
- Read 30 minutes/day—yup, easily
- Write 1 hour/day—Yes, even finished another short story.
- Write 1 blog post/week that isn’t ROW80 or WIPpet—yup, though it was a guest post this week.
- Write 1 flash fiction/month—Not yet, but I do have a prompt, so I’ll get on it.
- Walk on the treadmill 5 days/week—Not exactly. So. much. snow. I shoveled again.
WIPpet
Last week, I gave you a teaser with this novel’s pair, Andre and Trevor, from the prologue. This week, you get a bit of chapter 1. They haven’t met yet, but you’ll see two of Trevor’s three roommates here. For a bit of context, they are all Boston-based musicians. Trevor has a church job, Nate’s an opera singer, and Jamie and Mack (who you’ll meet in a future snippet) are in a band my husband named (and I’m not sharing yet). Only Trevor is doing his job full-time.
WIPmath: 11 – 2 = 9 for 9 lines of mostly dialog.
“Trevor! Trev, get your ass down here and help me haul this thing up,” Nate hollered up the stairs.
“Yeah, haven’t got all day!” Jamie added from his perch on the waiting couch.
Trevor thundered down the stairs. “I’m coming, I’m coming!”
“That’s what he said,” Nate and Jamie chorused.
Trevor scrunched his nose at them. “Nice, guys.”
A neighbor stuck her graying head out of her door and snapped, “Keep it down.”
Once she disappeared back inside, Jamie snickered. Nate rolled his eyes. “Does she expect us to be silent while moving furniture into the apartment?”
“Probably. Guess it’s a good thing we’re not right above her,” Trevor said.
He took hold of one end of the beat-up couch, Nate took the other, and they ported it up the stairs.
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Love the playful dialog. And, really, it’s impossible to be quiet whilst moving. Strictly not done.
Have fun with the musical. I love Grease.
Yeah, moving is a full-contact sport. Not quiet at all.
Grease is one of my favorites. It’s usually not performed in schools because the stage show is SO raunchy. Just the song lyrics are…interesting. So the writers made a school-friendly version leaving out pretty much all the sex, smoking, and drinking. I’m not entirely sure what plot is left to fill a 2 1/2 hour show. My son is only 11, so he’s playing “Catholic School Boy #2” or something like that. LOL!
I wondered what the school version all cut. Hmm…guess I never thought of Grease as all that raunchy, though.
The movie isn’t as much as the stage show. But look up the lyrics to “Greased Lightning” and you’ll see why they changed almost the entire song. Fun bit of trivia: “Grease” was the only thing the original writers ever did. After years of not having their show licensed for school productions (it’s super expensive AND pretty naughty), they were the ones who reworked it to be family-friendly. I haven’t seen any of it yet, but my kid comes home singing the songs, and they words are definitely different.
I must have missed last week’s post. Just had to go back and read it. Loved it, and the playfulness in this one.
Thanks! Yes, these guys are in the “honeymoon” stage of living together on their own as Real Adults, so there’s lots of playfulness between them. 🙂 I’m glad you liked the other one, too.
Aaaah, new neighbors. Always exciting. It’s like a box of chocolates.
Yeah. I’ve debated on whether she needs to show up again later. It’s a possibility. 🙂
“That’s what he said.” Love it!
Thanks! 🙂
What a fun little snippet for this week! Thanks!! 🙂
Aw, glad you liked it!
I love the “he said” joke. 🙂 You show a great relationship and differences in personality all at once. Keep up the awesome work with your goals too!
Thanks! This part was a bit of a rewrite from its original version, so I’m glad it worked.
I think my goals are about to get derailed with my son’s final week of rehearsals, but hopefully I’ll be back on track after. 🙂
So glad we don’t live in an apartment anymore. It’s no fun keeping kids quiet and always worrying about the neighbors.
I definitely do not miss those days! Apartment living can be so challenging.
Love your goals. Great job in completing them–it’s so nice to check things off with a bold yes! 🙂
Gosh, yes. Whenever I can say, “Hey, I did it!” it feels so good, even if it’s not something huge.
Ah, thank you. I needed that laugh. I love these guys.
Glad it made you laugh! It’s funny, it took me a while, but I’m really starting to love them as well. They’re a fun bunch. 🙂
Every time I think about moving a couch, I’m reminded of that episode of “Friends.” “Pivot. Pivot.” Good banter between the friends here, and nice touch with the gray-haired neighbor.
You stole my comment!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w5DHU8SwYJ0
Bahaha! A couple of years ago, we switched bedrooms. We have a cape-style house, so 2 bedrooms downstairs and one up. We had to move our bed upstairs using a narrow, bending staircase. It was the WORST. There was a lot of swearing, and we had to buy a new frame because the box springs weren’t going to make it.
Nice banter here! Gotta love grumpy old neighbors – not :p
I love the humour in this, like the others have said it’s definitely playful and very sweet. Augh, scary neighbour lady. She sounds like the type who’d bang on the walls–whether she heard anything or not…
I just love this. Good luck with the show!
And that is all. Everyone else already said all the other stuff.