Story Starter-It was a dark

[Nora]

She began to write...It was a dark and stormy night --no that's not right. It was a cold and rainny night. No, that's worse. It was a night like any other except it was dripping with humidity. No, that won't work either.

"I'll never be a writer", she thought.

[jacks girl]

Nancy shook her head at her feeble attempt to start her first real novel. People had been telling her for years that she should write, she had a great imagination. But did she? Now that she sat down in front of her laptop nothing was working out.

She left the computer sitting with that terrible little cursor blinking at her. It seemed to be laughing at her as she rose from her chair and headed to get another cup of hot tea. On her way to the kitchen she looked out the window and studied the sky.

Walking out on the porch she looked up into the dark clouds and began to talk out loud. "The young woman stood looking into the evening clouds, rain was in the air, but there was something else too she could feel it. Something was brewing just over the horizon .... oh oh i love that..

[Tommie Lyn]

The perfect beginning. She knew more words would follow the first, if she could get them typed before she forgot them.

She hustled inside to her computer, whispering under her breath..."The young woman stood looking into . . ." She didn't want to lose a single word.

[Nora]

She keep whispering the words as she hit the on button on the computer. The computer didn't come on. "Oh, man! Stupid, stupid macine!"

She grabbed the closes writing instrument. It was a pencil. She snatched a piece of copier paper from the printer. "It'll do."

As she put pencil to paper....

[jacks girl]

...the electric began to flicker. "Great this is just what I need." She ran to hurry and find a candle and about the time she got it burning the lights came back on. Not sure of what might happen she began to write down the words before she lost them.

Everything began to flow and before she knew it, the clock said ..

[Ink Blot]

3:59. "Oh no!" The kids were still at school waiting for her to pick them up. She pushed herself away from the table and rushed for the front door. She swiped the keys from the counter and bolted outside. The front door slammed shut as she realized that the keys were for the neighbor's house.

[Nora]

She rushed back inside. Where were those blasted keys. She found them on the hook by the front door. "Just where you were supposed to be." She talked to them the way she talked to everything else-- not expecting an answer but still. "Just like the husband" she thought and back out the door she bolted.

[Textus Rec]

Her hand shot to the doorknob, and she jiggled it – it was locked. She twisted the knob and put her weight into the door; maybe it was just stuck or something. More twisting, jiggling, pushing, hoping – still locked. The first droplets of icy rain randomly spattered around her as thunder rolled in the distance.

“It was a dark and stormy night, alright,” she said to no one in particular. The rain fell harder causing the doggie door to look grotesquely inviting. She couldn’t believe she was going to try it, but breaking and entering via Buster’s entrance became more and more plausible as she became increasingly wet.

[Textus Rec]

Oh! Sorry, Nora...you beat me, there! You may ignore my last post!

[Ink Blot]

Great tie to the "Dark and Stormy" idea, Textus Rex!