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"Scene from a Writer at Work" by Artie (romantic quickie)
10, 10, 10
"Scene from a Writer at Work" by Artie (artie@netgate.net). As I read the first part of this story, I said to myself, "Self, this is a pretty good story, but the author seems to have the verb tenses a bit screwed up." Then the narrator himself says to his wife, "It's okay for a first draft; I need to go over it a few times. I may have shifted verb tenses in there." Gotcha! Ya see, the narrator is an author, writing a story and following the highly useful practice of not worrying about grammatical details during the first draft but being careful to polish his writing before publishing it. So the writer's wife looks over his shoulder and says, "Why don't you ever right about me?" And he says, "You mean like this?" And they jointly compose and act out a very short but intense erotic escapade. The story has little plot development, but it's still excellent. Ratings for "Scene from a Writer at Work" Athena (technical quality): 10 Venus (plot & character): 10 Celeste (appeal to reviewer): 10 |