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Dear Wonderful Hubby Stories – Living With A Writer

By Cynthia Sax on July 8, 2020

I was laughing this morning because the Dear Wonderful Hubby was making scrambled eggs and he was choosing eggs from the carton in a completely random way, the same way he does almost everything else (he once mowed the lawn in an X pattern).

People, upon meeting us, usually think I’m the flighty or spontaneous person in the relationship. I’m the writer. He works for big corporate as a salesperson. The myth of the writer is we’re all over the place thought-wise.

Which is ridiculously funny.

Writers have to keep track of entire worlds, multiple plots, hundreds of characters. Many of us often get random ideas. That’s true. But we have to organize those ideas into cohesive stories.

That takes focus.

In contrast, one of the true myths about writers is, once you push past the introvert super shield many of us (but not all) erect around us, we can be entertaining and ‘interesting’ to live with.

Some people say that as though it is a bad thing. It isn’t a bad thing. Not usually.

Whenever the Dear Wonderful Hubby is bored or needs to be distracted or is trying to stay awake during a long drive, he’ll comment on a random thing and I’ll usually spin that observation into an action-packed story that often involves either explosions or decapitations. (grins)

A couple years ago, before the Great Pause, we were on a cruise ship and there wasn’t much entertainment on board. We stood on a deck, looked out at the water and I started telling him a story about a mermaid who had fallen in love with a dolphin (neither the mermaid’s parents nor the dolphin’s parents approved of their relationship). There was quite a bit of conflict and some bloodshed in this tale.

The night air was cool and we turned to go back to the closed portion of the ship. Two women, fellow passengers yet complete strangers who had been standing beside us, stopped us and told us we couldn’t go, not yet. They needed to hear the rest of the story. (grins)

So yes, writers can be entertaining but we usually have some (not award-winning levels but semi-normal) organization skills.

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