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STRANGER: A penny for your thoughts?
ME: I hope you have the time and energy for a three hour lecture of the history and engineering (maybe) of this obscure component of a fictional universe I’ve created. Do you prefer law or railways?
Word
uhh, nothin’
I describe it as chaos
This is part of why I got into writing.
“Whatcha thinkin’ about?”
“Oh, my book! Let me tell you all about it! Or, better, do you want to read it? Here, I’ll send it to you!”
I either get a beta reader for my latest project, or they never ask me stupid questions like that again. It’s win/win.
Then they hate you. This happened to me a couple of times.