Their Love was on the Line

[kaitou]

This year for my birthday I'm treating myself to a writing conference. A friend of mine from the Dayton group was going and said, 'come along, it will be fun and educational!' I thought to myself, 'well, I'm not working on a romance novel, though I have a few ideas kicking around in the back of my head, but it would still be a lot of fun to hang out with other writers, particularly my friend, and the workshops all look incredibly valuable no matter what genre you're writing. OK, sign me up!"

So I agreed to go, signed up, and found out that I'll actually even get to pitch to an agent.

This sent me off into another tizzy, because I'm not working on a romance. But that is not the point of this post. The point is that my friend and I were talking, and she mentioned that she's going to wear a suit to her pitch. Her day job is a lawyer, and her writing has law elements, so she's using it as another card to play in her pitch.

I joked back that I was thinking of wearing my steel-toed boots and safety glasses and pitching a novel called 'Production Line Passion.' And now I can only think of the jokes. I mean, at my old job the company motto was 'sharing the pleasure of production with our customers.'

Just think of all the possibilities!

• Everything was mass produced...except for their love.


• A Riveting story


• Sparks fly on the spot weld Line


• He'd poka-yoked his heart, but there was no countermeasure for her love

I could keep going, but I'd only get deeper into manufacturing terminology.

Comments

[mewsrissicat.livejournal.com]

Oh my god, you made my entire brain twitch. (And considering that we were talking about Metroids this morning, that's kind of funny in itself.)

Anyway... I've been toying with the urge to ask you if there's a good midway point (between Dayton and Pittsburgh) to meet up with you for dinner/lunch sometime. Once you're past all the mayhem of the writing conference, maybe we could talk about it?

[kaitou1412.livejournal.com]

Actually, Cleveland might be a good spot. It looks like it's about a 2 1/2 hr drive for you, and a 3 something hr drive for me, so that's not too bad. Plus it would be a place we could go do something instead of meet at a Waffle House, look around and say, 'God this is creepy.'

Although, on second hand, meeting in Zanesville and checking out the world's biggest basket has it's own bizzare charm.

[mewsrissicat.livejournal.com]

Longaberger! It's always amused me, though not enough, to actually do anything about (Especially since I was just finishing up my undergrad degree a few years ago, and we were in major-renovation land last year.)

But I think it would be fun to meet you out there with the rest of the Mews! And Zanesville has food-type places all over the place, to boot...

*nods* That would be too cool... time and sanity permitting! Let's keep it in mind for a Spring-fling? ^_^

[vengeful-god.livejournal.com]

Oh balls. Just go the Nicholas Sparks route:

He worked Third Shift. She worked First Shift. But their love...was timeless.