A writer's life is sometimes a happy one

Well, all I need to do now about the food stories is write them up but my, 'to do' list gets longer and longer and I need to just get down to writing the stories in alphabetical order. The initial ideas can be developed with the list technique but the detailed plotting of one of them can take just as long as finding a good subject. It's easier if the characters are familiar as they do a bit of the writing but making the plot three dimensional can be hard, especially at 300 words, as there has to be some doubt about the outcome. My immediate priority (I think that's a repetition of terms) is to get a monologue and a report of a museum visit written for my Writers' Group's annual anthology. I've already sent in the short story and the poem and a news report. I had the choice of a short play instead of the monologue but decided against it as the stage directions don't count and I tell half the story in them, anyway. The thing I'd like to get moving is Just Life notes about aggravations like people in bus queues and amusing things overheard on the bus. Like the woman who was asked to visit her daughter for a few days near the time of her seventieth birthday and got all excited but found she was the baby-sitter while her daughter and son-in-law went to a party.
I suppose with the early nights, I'll get a lot more done.

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