Adam@Home by Rob Harrell for March 07, 2020

Your bubble has just burst!!

Adam just realized that…. wait for it…… realized that there is nothing novel about writing a novel. Rimshot!

I’ve been to starBucks, I’ve seen what I’ve seen…not pretty.

Must be something they put in the coffee.

If I weren’t working on my novel right now, I would make some snappy comment.

Suddenly your fishbowl has shrunk, eh, screwball scrivener? :-p

Ah, but he is the only one being paid to write.

Is FedX guy named Tommy,by chance?

The writer’s curse, to be living in a time when writing is a fad.

A whole coffee shop of nut jobs

Sorry snowflake. You’re not special. However, you are an individual. Be proud that you are a cog in the great machine of this nation. A tiny, totally replaceable, cog, but still in there somewhere. Stand up to be seen. Speak up to be heard. Shut up to be appreciated. …sigh

Now he’s feelin’ so unnecessary.

… And the unemployed computer nerd about his pirate story …

surprise surprise every coffee I see has at least one writer of some sort most have several

Of course you’re special, Adam. Don’t listen to anyone who tells you different. Here, have a Participant in Life trophy — it will make you feel better about yourself.

It’s a regular “Algonquin Round Table“

True. Everyone is a writer these days because you can self publish now.

One day this coffee shop will be a location noted for the number of authors who got their start working there. People will come from around the world to see it and have their photo taken there -

“Which booth was Adam’s?”

“Where did Betty Bandana write her book?”

“Is it true that momma grey would sit behind Adam when he wrote – where were they?”

“Is this where Fed Ex Rocks was written – did the composer sing out loud as he worked?”

When I was 13 my parents took us on what we called the authors home tour to several authors’ homes in Connecticut and Massachusetts. After arriving home – being a budding author myself – I went around the house and made notes – “We need to put in a second staircase so when the tours come through they are allowed to go upstairs.” (One house we could not do so as there was only one staircase.) I drew diagrams of which room was where and who used it for what. Hence why the coffee shop as a future destination location for fans of the writers came to me.