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Deadline

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"You know, every other writer in the world gets to lie to her editor," Yvonne said, deleting the last five paragraphs she'd written.

"What?" her husband asked.

"Other writers get to say, 'Yeah, the draft is done, but my email's been acting up, so I'll get it in by midnight tomorrow' or something."

"Well, hun," the editor answered, "I guess you'll just have to meet your deadlines on time."

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"How's the draft going, hun?" Walker asked.

"I'm about to kill off half of my main characters and have a side character save the day, only to be rejected by the girl he loves. And then I'm going to eat a whole lot of ice cream," Yvonne said in a weepy tone from where her head was on the computer desk.

"Deadline's in a few days, hun," Walked said.

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"There you little monster, all submitted," Yvonne said.

"Great," her husband said, putting a hand on her shoulder. "How'd it turn out?"

"Let's not talk about that!" Yvonne said cheerfully. "It's time for the post-book ritual."

"I've already got the Mexican food, ice cream and Hitchcock movie," Walker answered. Yvonne walked towards the kitchen on shaky knees. "But we are going to talk about this book in the morning."
It would be a trial to be a published writer married to your editor. Way too much of taking work home. But this was fun.

Format: The challenge was to write three 69ers that are tied by a common theme, meant to be read together. This was pretty fun.
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Secret-Rainforest's avatar
A lovely, funny, little story ^_^