ROBUST discussion

I'll decide tomorrow what I start writing.

Maybe I'll write a novel about the early days of my eponymous tribe, perhaps about how my ancestor Woden became a god.

Or perhaps I'll write a screenplay about ghostly love story set in the house where I grew up.

Choices, choices.

Choices are good.

As long as they don't immobilize one.

Write a novel about the lives of people in a Goodreads discussion group.

Cough cough.

Now is not the time to make new enemies.

I vote for the ghost story set in St John Palace. It's such a romantic-sounding house.

I'm trying to live it down.

Andre Jute wrote: "Now is not the time to make new enemies."

Ah yes, but certainly character-driven...

Sharon wrote: "Andre Jute wrote: "Now is not the time to make new enemies."

Ah yes, but certainly character-driven..."

That's what convinces me it is a very bad idea, Sharon. In RACING JUSTICE Dakota has an attractive minor character, whose name now escapes me, a playwright, "betray" his friends by putting them in a play, and being ostracized for it. I sympathized with the writer, not the "friends"...

Kench!

So did you decide? Will it be a sweeping epic set in Eyre or a Drury Lane hit...

I've decided to do the ostrich palace screenplay first, the novel of my ancestors after.

A ghostly love story set in an Ostrich Palace. Oooh, the plot thickens...

Is ostrich a popular food in south Africa? I had it once, cooked it at home like a beefsteak and it was nice.

Ostrich meat is available now; in fact it is available at the supermarket we shop at in Ireland. We sometimes eat it. But when I was a boy ostriches were bred for their skins and the meat was turned into biltong (air dried, like beef jerky). The eggs were eaten and the feathers made very high quality dusters. Ostrich leather is soft, supple and very strong. Photo of my ostrich leather cigar case near the bottom of this page: http://www.sketching.cc/forum3/viewto...

There is an entire line of ostrich leather purses...made to carry concealed weapons...that sell like hot cakes here in Kentucky.

Rednecks, guns and purses...instead of lawyers, guns and money...times change?

Video here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NGhd53...

The Revenge of the Rednecks!

Big hair, big guns, bigger purses!

Andre Jute wrote: "Ostrich meat is available now; in fact it is available at the supermarket we shop at in Ireland. We sometimes eat it. But when I was a boy ostriches were bred for their skins and the meat was turne..."

Andre, your creativity never ceases to amaze...

You just have to see what is available, pick it up and use it.

Duh. I have a private note here from a lurker who says I'm talking about an ostrich skin cigar case used as a pencil case, while Sharon is talking about sketches on the same page. Er, I'm not being deliberately obtuse; that's just what the URL I published was to, the cigar case.

I have this awful feeling I'm sinking deeper into the quicksand...

Naw, no quicksand. The cigar case/sketchbook kit and the sketches are equally impressive.

As you were...

You're a princess, Sharon, such reassuring, comforting manners.

My mamma told me, If you don't have anything nice to say, don't say anything at all.

So I wander the world sprinkling fairy dust...

If you build an empire I might or might not be impressed, I could probably do that if I was of a mind to. If you are creative I am more likely to be impressed. If you are an artist who carries a sketch kit, I will be impressed.

Kench! Y'all crack me up!