Hi everybody, and welcome back to my SSS series of excerpts. I'm using a long scene that started just as a character exploration exercise, with no plans to include it in the novel, but who knows. The backstory is that rock musician Neal has asked his girlfriend, onstage in front of several thousand people, to marry him. She agreed but added that there's a condition. Here, she explains.
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“What I mean is this. I’ve been wind surfing and skiing with you, I’ve been behind you on a Harley screaming down desert roads, I’ve been next to you in powerboats, hanging on for dear life. I’ve been to so many places on tour with you that my head swims better than the rest of me. But I can’t keep living at full throttle. I want us to move out of the city to someplace with enough land so I can have some horses, and some peace and quiet.”
“You want what?” popped out of his mouth before he remembered that the mic he held would pick up everything.
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To see the previous excerpts from this scene, just click on the Six Sentence Sunday label in today's post. To see other snippets from a variety of talented writers, hop by the SSS website. It's pretty cool idea. Starting every Tuesday, the sign-up link appears and you add your blog site. Then, make sure you have SIX sentences from one of your projects live on your blog by Sunday morning.
It's a fun and creative way to expose people to your writing, and see what other writers are up to!
I'm going to be out of town this week so I'll probably miss signing up for next Sunday's SSS post. I'll schedule it to go live that day, there just won't be a link on the SSS site like usual.
I totally understand where she's coming from. Great six!
ReplyDeletewow, that is switching gears isn't it!! Curious how this will unfold...
ReplyDeleteI like her conditions, sounds reasonable to me. I guess he should have thought twice abou8t proposing in such a VERY public place LOL! Great six!
ReplyDeleteWow! Wow! Wow! That isn't even close to what I expected! lol... Appears Neal is in a quagmire, and a quite public one at that :-) Great six, Marie!
ReplyDeleteHey Marcia, I've mentioned you in my current post. Have you ever done the lucky seven meme? Some exposure...a chance to share seven lines of your WIP. :-)
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Ladies, thanks so much. This scene has been so much fun to write, and parts of it surprised *me*!
ReplyDeleteTeresa, that's really sweet of you! I've been out of town for 9 days & *just* got back. I did Lucky Seven once and would be pleased and honored to do it again. I'll post in a few hours! :)