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Have you ever started writing something and left it half way through for some reason or other, then come back and found you have absolutely no clue what it was all about? A while back, looking through my drafts, I found this staring at me:
It was an orderly room, a place for everything and everything in its place. It made me wonder about its occupant. He was not long coming. The front door crashed open and footsteps could be heard coming towards the room. Shortly afterwards a boy stepped in, sliding a backpack off his shoulder and carefully propping it against the wall next to the table. I had moved nothing from its place and yet he paused as if the disturbance in the air in his room revealed to him that someone else was
That’s it, an abrupt stop, as if something urgent took me away in the middle of writing, and now I am left wondering where exactly I had intended taking this.
©Shail Mohan 2016
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Well, you should take it somewhere! It is lovely!
Yes, I will one day. Thank you 🙂
Well I was g
This happens to me all the time: only yesterday, I spent the latter part of the afternoon writing down at last a story that has been swirling about in my head for days. Eight pages in I realised that – as happens – it was following a more circuitous route than I had intended and so was making a real effort to rein it in to get back on track when my granddaughters came rushing in to say hello. They left an hour later … supper … sleep … and this morning the sentence remains incomplete – what WAS I going to say?
Ahh, glad to have company, Anne 🙂
Yeah, I have a bunch of those in my draft as well.
But on a tangential note, if such a boy were true, I would like to adopt him.
I knew a 9 year old who used to be exactly like this and remember being awed and mighty impressed (I myself was a college student then). 🙂
I wish you’d completed what you wrote – it sounds like it would make for a great story. I have many incomplete drafts lying around but I normally remember them.
Good for you that you remember 🙂 May be I’ll get back to this one of these days.
I like the abrupt ending, actually. It lends itself to the imagination.
I echo everyone else here – I hope you figure out where this was going (or come up with a new destination) because it sounds like a good start to an interesting story. 🙂
So interesting! So is it a mysterious gift or a frustrating mystery? Where does the story go now?
Well I think it is the beginning of Alzheimer’s
I don’t want to go ga-ga like the rest of the universe
All I want is your comment section to be a little diverse
Okay now you can go ahead and let out the curse
🙂
Save the brick I might be coming to Tvm in November.
What an interesting premise! Curious indeed, it’s intended direction!
Starting is interesting….I know you will continue soon, Shail!
Maybe sarcasm (or lack of it 😛 ).. depends on who you’re asking
Eh? Rather confused 🤔
She left herself clueless and told us so
And when, through the comments, we did go
Most urged her on
One cursed upon
But the last has, over all heads, cleanly gone!
You bet the last one has gone over all heads. I hope he clears the mystery soon 😛