Fodder for Books

Life and experiences are fodder for books. You know the expression, “What doesn’t kill you, makes you stronger?” Among writers it should say if it kills you, your friends will use it in their next novel, if it doesn’t you have first dibs, but act quickly. Writers use expressions, the ones they hear, the ones they see, even the odd mistake someone makes. I like to record all of them in a spiral notebook, all types of things to use in the future. On a bad writing day after the tenth interruption, I thumb through my observations and it helps me refocus. It is amazing the things you can see and hear people say when you are paying attention. My current favorite involves a particularly bad case of gas. One person offered the other a travel can of Lysol and suggested either drinking it or using it as a suppository.