Seven of us gathered around a sturdy and venerable wooden table to engage with the written word and flesh out our crime\/detective story projects. <\/p>\n
It was all going so well.<\/p>\n
Then the Jameson’s came out. It was my fault and I take full responsibility because I was in charge of the workshop. <\/p>\n
Suddenly, and Elmore Leonard once wrote that no crime writer worth his decent whiskey should ever, ever, ever, use the word \u201csuddenly.\u201d Its use is cheap and a telegraph. For hacks.<\/p>\n
But…dammit, everything stark happens suddenly, right? Everything terrible and beautiful in life is usually sudden!<\/p>\n
Suddenly, Jameson was being poured into coffee cups to make us all feel better about doing so at 2 pm. We even poured a little Jameson into the dog’s water bowl and he lapped it right up, quite possibly because his name is Mick.<\/p>\n
The workshop started ratcheting up. We did a simile exercise. Ideas started tumbling out like elixirs from a shaman’s grab bag. <\/p>\n
Two bottles died. <\/p>\n
We’ll do it again in a few months. We’re onto something. <\/p>\n
I’m drinking a Jameson in a snifter as I write this, and feel good that I can still teach every now and then. <\/p>\n
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