Greetings all. Here is another scrap of writing that I recently put through the editing process and ended up with a short story. I am enjoying this compression of plot, even if it costs me pages of description. It's easier to stay on task and finish a thought with such condensing afoot. Enjoy!
Standing at the front door, Myron
fidgeted in the waking day’s groggy wakening. Writer’s block, he frowned as the
thought danced through his mind as it had danced for the past 48 sleepless
hours of his crestfallen life. Myron had been on a writer’s spree up until this
point, THE point, actually. He couldn’t close this novel, not on his own as it
was no longer his own.
Arnold was a childhood friend by
trade, but in Myron’s case, Arnold was his publishing agent. Their relationship
soured in the weeks surrounding Myron’s first accomplished publication, which
through shrewd tactics and ventriloquism throughout the chain of unknowingly participating
companies, found its way into Myron’s damp basement by the crate-load. The
novel was a flop, and in turn Myron was a flop, and both of them were forever
branded by the publication world as unsavory and dishonest fellows.
If it weren’t for that bastard
Arnold, Myron wouldn’t be here right now, toiling over the most irrelevant of
minutia. Myron needed to finish his redeeming novel; he needed to make
everything right. Myron fidgeted again as the sun peeked through the low
hanging trees in front of Arnold’s sleeping home. Turning the knob quietly, he
watched as a sliver of golden light expanded on the foyer floor. Myron needed to end
this novel. He needed to right his wrongs, and as he tightened his grip on his
raised sledgehammer: he knew exactly what changes were in store.
