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By
Richard Cotton
                    “Pst hay you wake up,”
“What who’s talking,”
“I am down here the blank page,”
“Yes so what do you want me for?”
“You’re going to write a story,”
“I am. Where would I start I don’t even know what to do,”
“It’s said you should write what you know about most,”
“I know a lot about war and fighting,”
“Then let’s start there. First we have to do research,”
“I know a lot on the weapons, tanks and people. The units and who took part,”
“You need a place and setting. You need to go to the library,”
“Oh no not the library,”
“Yes off you go,”
“But there is all those people there and that means I might have to say hello to one of them,”
“What’s wrong with that?”
“I might get a cold,”
“But you need a place to set the fight,”
“Couldn’t I just do the bulge or D. Day beaches,”
“But they have been done we need something new,”
“Isn’t there anything else I can write about?”
“Look you can write about anything from Sci-fi to Romance,”
“War seems very hard. Look I am going for a pint,”
“Don’t drink it will make you write all wrong,”
“Look I don’t want to write,”
“Yes you do just think of the spacecraft landing on a strange planet, or they young lady falling for the prince and then turning into a frog,”
“Look I am going out,”
“No don’t please I am a blank page and need something wrote on me,”
“How about I write my shopping list on you?”
“No you want more than that you’re blood is that of a writer I can tell,”
“I need something to help me start,”
“Once upon a time does that help,”
“I’m not writing a fairy story,”
“This can be for anything just put pen to paper,”
“No I am going for a drink,”
“There was blood on the carpet which dripped from the stairs. The body lay there her mouth open as if she had screamed before the knife went in to her,”
“You’re better at this than me blank page,” There was a pause “But if you let me write what I want to write can I go out for a pint,”
“Once started you wont want that pint,”