The Writing Process

I was having trouble thinking up a story for today, until I realised I’d been given the prompt ‘feeling meta’.

“What do you think?” I asked. “Writing about writing. Too pretentious?”

Magpie perched on the monitor. “That stopped you before?”

“Fair point.”

“I want to know when you’re going to tell the story about me and the fisherman.”

“One day.”

“It’s a brilliant story.”

“Sure it is.”

“Better than this one.”

“Shut up.”

I tapped out another few words, then broke the paragraph.

“Best get on,” Magpie said. “You’re 90 words in already.”

“Really? Guess I’d better stop there, then.”