Tuesday 20 November 2007

5 minute story...

Ok, this is new territory for me….

My friend Jim (sorry I have not learned the shortcut to his page) see my myspace homepage (Jim…The other white meat!) has done stories timed in 5 minutes, that’s it 5 mins” and STOP writing. Put your pens down!! “So I thought I would try it! The moment I decided to try it, then my mind kept thinking of what to write (NOT THE IDEA OF THE BLOG) so mostly this is not pre-conceived ideas….

(Before you try to patent the idea … Jim and I have patent pending on the Speed blog idea…) Ha-ha

Ok 5 minutes….

And go…

So the woman left the bar, it was a warm , yet thundery evening, not that noticed as she breathed deeply through her nose, letting the Southern Comfort softly burn…
She walked off down the street as it started to rain, lightly at first, on her arms, like his touch 2 nights earlier, but she didn’t pay much attention to it, she knew she was going to get wet; the clouds were starting to look menacing, and black, like her mood.
Dam she thought I should have worn a coat, the soft rain now turning to a downpour, the tail lights on the stationary rush hour traffic winking on and off in the rain like the bedroom clock 2 mornings before, only now she thought the rain might wash the anger away… it didn’t !
The pain of 2 days ago was too much to bear, so she had walked out and left him, and kept walking for 2 days, 2 days…. She thought she hadn’t gone for 2 days had she... yes. She had just not noticed the time, or where she was, maybe that was the drink, maybe the empty feeling inside the feeling of nothing-ness, not even hate, or wanting to get even, but that might come.
She was walking into people through people, barging them out of the way almost, walking with purpose, but not sure what the purpose was……..

Ok that’s it... stop!!

Shit that was harder than I thought…. Perhaps a comedy though next time !

Either planning or practice is needed!!!

Take up the challenge, and try it, let’s get everyone writing!!

5 minutes mind that is all!!

2 comments:

Veronica Foale said...

Maybe you should have entered NaNoWriMo?

There is always next year...

Now get to it and use more 5 minutes to complete the story please.

Gareth said...

Yes boss !!