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For two who inspire me

My thoughts after reading.......... 

If you can tell stories, create characters, devise incidents, and have sincerity and passion, it doesn’t matter a damn how you write. 

~ Somerset Maugham ~

One of my standard — and fairly true — responses to the question as to how story ideas come to me is that story ideas only come to me for short stories. With longer fiction, it is a character (or characters) coming to visit, and I am then obliged to collaborate with him/her/it/them in creating the story. 

~ Roger Zelazny ~

I tend to agree, but I would add short stories are postcard/letters from the characters and are scenes taken from their everyday life - novels are short stories joined together by the characters who return wanting to share with us more of there lives.

For me I see something, hear a tune, or have a dream that just won’t leave me alone - such as with the beginnings of the Jumping Rope.  It started with just a “fictional” idea to have someone send me an e-mail with the jump rope rhyme. 

I have been lucky to become acquainted with an artist, Faramond who takes a jumble of ideas that I have for a story and brings them to life in his paintings, such as the one posted at the top of my blog.  Its title “1919 Joplin” and is a corner lot in a fictional town, Putney, on New Island.  

I have also been very lucky to have a job where I work with someone who I knew high school - sharing memories of those times is such a treat.  

There are days when we start remembering those times and then a story just starts to evolve from those musings or is it that I start developing the story that leads us back to those days.....its like trying to figure out which came first the chicken or the egg!

I just wanted to say thank you to Judy and to Lee, for allowing me into their lives,  and sharing their talents with me.  ~ Travelin’ Gal ~

And now the beginning the "first sketch" for the “Jumping Rope”.

E-mail from Georgia Lane - Jump Rope Rhymes

From: GeorgiaLane@commonwealth.net

To:  TavelinGal@commonwealth.net 

My daughter, Rose came home from school today and said that you are interested in Jump Rope Rhymes.  

Here is one we said “back in my day” when I attended a six room elementary school - but back then only girls jumped rope.  

Enjoy; perhaps we’ll hear this one locally, now that I shared it with you and my daughter.

“I am a pretty little Dutch girl, as pretty as pretty can be and every boy in my Putney goes crazy over me!

l have a boyfriend fatty, He came from Cincinnati with 48 toes and pickle on his nose and this is how my story goes

One day while I was walking I saw my boyfriend talking to a pretty little girl with strawberry curls and this is what he said to her

I L-O-V-E love you, I K-I-S-S kiss you

I K-I-S-S kiss you on the F-A-C-E face, face, face.”

Georgia