A Challenge...?

[caddyman]

Following a chat in the pub last night with smokingboot, I have decided that we ought at least to try to wake just_writing from the torpor it suffers from between half-hearted annual attempts to get some of you buggers to contribute Christmas ghost stories.

I have had a slight inspiration around the sad lives of the denizens of Dimpler Towers and hope to have something written in the next day or so over the bank holiday weekend.

I know that a fair sample of the people on my friends list is decent writers¹; I’ve worked with a number of you on NWO and I’ve read contributions from others. There’s a talented if lazy mob out there. I count myself in the lazy bit at least. If I’m going to post something, will anyone join me?

(Cross-posted as usual, so it can be ignored by the greatest selection of people I can reach).

¹Grammatically correct, yet oddly wrong-minded; this sentence is a literary Roundhead: repulsive but right.

Comments

[caddyman.livejournal.com]

That's precisely right. 'Orrid, ain't it?

[bluesman.livejournal.com]

That sounds like my stepdaughter - a fourteen-year-old American. When I correct her execrable English, she just looks odiously smug and announces that she's going to use the "word" I originally corrected. It's really insulting, and my response of, "Fine, go ahead and speak like an uneducated mushmouth, then," comes out rather lame. I told my wife two days ago that I'll keep my gob shut in future; after all, no-one likes to be corrected, do they.