If you say, "I spend a lot of time fantasizing about murder and ways to hide bodies," people get all freaked out.
If you say, "I'm an author," they smile and go, "That's nice."
Agatha Christie never walked into a room without wondering how she's kill every person in it.
If you say, "I'm an author," they smile and go, "That's nice."
Agatha Christie never walked into a room without wondering how she's kill every person in it.
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This summer from pixar.
I was introduced as "author"
But quickly spent the meal channeling Ms Christie in my quiet thoughts as the tabletalk swerved to pigeon shooting.
Jane Austen would have been approved of my whimsical smile and polite non-engaging eyebrow twitches.
They never fail me.
"Are you a writer?"
"...uh, no..."
The story is "Survivor Type", about a surgeon who is marooned, has heroin and nothing to eat...except himself.
That and I'm pretty sure there was at least one or two episodes of Murder She Wrote where Fletcher is accused of murder for pretty much this exact thing.
We'll ask questions but they will not necessarily implicate anyone
not that anyone may be implicated by asking or answering.
The little grey cells at work…
"Uh oh."
"What?"
"She's using cursive. She's been reading Poe and Lovecraft again."
The one who didn’t know I was writing about murder looked very concerned.
Aww... Who am I kidding. They never bother hiding the bodies....
She divorced him.
One of those things where you laugh but wonder.....did that really happen?
Christie, Malraux, Doyle, Tolkien or Verne were not the finest stylists...
Now seems most contemporary writers have not much to say but can defo put words on a paper nicely. What will remain of them?
And THAT’S when I start wondering the best way to kill them and where to hide their body.
-_-
Be polite.
Be professional.
And have a plan to kill everyone you meet.