Turn to page 123 in your work-in-progress. (If you haven’t gotten to page 123 yet, then turn to page 23. If you haven’t gotten there yet, then get busy and write page 23.) Count down four sentences and then instead of just the fifth sentence, give us the whole paragraph. (Via Gwenda. Via Ed.)
Here's what I've got:
"I went to work on Wednesday feeling good about my place in the world. I had a role to play, a person to be, and I knew exactly how that person would dress. I’d wear my black coat with the flowers on the bottom, to be appropriately dressed but not too somber. Funeral-festive. I would be both sunny and sad and people would wonder who I was. I imagined his father hugging me close, thanking me for helping his son. His grandmother would take a shine to me and secretly want us to marry. I was good at my own family crisis and I could be good at someone else’s too."
