When you start stealing for your writing?

happywritermom · Feb 17, 2009

I hope nobody involved in that investigation reads my post! I'm not sure whether talking a note pad from a public conference room (That's what they had used) in a public building when the room was no longer in use and the pad was blank with only a few sheets left constitutes crime, but they could probably turn it into one!
They were pretty mad.

Michael J. Hoag · Feb 17, 2009

On a bathroom wall:

"Those who write on bathroom walls
Should mold their shit in little balls
And those who read these lines of wit
Should eat the little balls of shit."

--Kurt Vonnegut

Michael J. Hoag · Feb 17, 2009

Ooops, pardon Mr. Vonnegut's french.

ABekah · Feb 17, 2009

The Lonely One said:
It wasn't like shoplifting or anything; but I did take a shopping list somebody had left in a Walmart isle, feverishly packing away the little list of secret insight into a family I'd never met. I felt like I was stealing from them, but they obviously don't need it if they've left it carelessly by the spices, right? Is it a problem when looking for material to write about pushes you to kleptomania? Have you ever done anything similar you felt somewhat bad about?

Among the items on the list are whiskey, mom's mash potatoes and yellow mustard mayonnaise. I've got a short story brewing already...

There is a book you might be interested in. The compiler collected grocery lists from all over in a witty book called Milk, Eggs, Vodka: Grocery Lists Lost and Found, by Bill Keaggy.

The Lonely One · Feb 17, 2009

scarletpeaches said:
I plead guilty to writing messages in bathroom stalls.

For a good crit, call...

The Lonely One · Feb 17, 2009

ABekah said:
There is a book you might be interested in. The compiler collected grocery lists from all over in a witty book called Milk, Eggs, Vodka: Grocery Lists Lost and Found, by Bill Keaggy.

On my "to buy" list. Thanks

Lyra Jean · Feb 17, 2009

The Lonely One said:
For a good crit, call...

Then post a number from the Top 20 Worst Agents.

When you start stealing for your writing?

happywritermom

Michael J. Hoag

"What's-it on the wall."

Michael J. Hoag

"What's-it on the wall."

ABekah

The Lonely One

Why is a raven like a writing desk?

The Lonely One

Why is a raven like a writing desk?

Lyra Jean

Two years old now.