6 Ways to Tell You Were Hungry When You Wrote Your Last Short Story

Posted by John Hewitt on 3/18/2008 under Fiction Writing |

Just a goofy trifle to polish off the night:

6 Ways to Tell You Were Hungry When You Wrote Your Last Short Story

Your three characters are named Peter, Skippy and Jif.
You devote one paragraph to your main character’s appearance, and two pages to his Hoagie.
You spend most of the morning picking mozzarella and crust out of your keyboard.
The killer’s weapon was a garlic press
You used your first draft as a napkin
The last paragraph is just the word Brunch typed over and over