Jimmy pushed past me and dragged me to the middle of the floor. He spun me into him then with his hand placed firmly on the small of my back we gracefully flew between dancers across the room. Soon a circle formed around us and Jimmy proceeded to spin and twirl me as we bounded across the floor. I smiled uncontrollably as everyone stood in awe.
As the song ended we came to a standstill in the middle. His lips only inches from mine. Our chests rose and fell with our heavy breathing. My heart pounded against my breastbone. My head was a-buzz with adrenaline and endorphins. I could see the question in his eyes; I answered with my own. His lips pressed against mine. He pulled me in close. My whole body was touching his. I rested one arm around his neck while my other hand ran into his hair holding him close to me.
We pulled away from each other realizing people were still staring. Embarrassed, I put my forehead to his chest, blushing. Jimmy rested his chin on the top of my head; I could tell he was smiling. My hands rested on his biceps, his arms firmly around my waist. Elise and Jenny approached us giggling.
"That was quite the show!"
So there you have it, the first of two excerpts from one of the many pieces I am currently working on. This one is based on my love of the country (and the boys that reside there ;) ) As with basically everything I write I don't really have an end to it until I get there. I prefer to let my characters tell the story rather than force them to follow the story line I think they should.
Although, that being said I realized something! I think the best way for me to have a decent short story is to write this way and then cut it down significantly during the editing process. I find I generally have too much of a set up as well as unnecessary parts throughout and that if I, basically, took an excerpt from what I've written it makes for a much more interesting story. That was my "epiphany" I guess it wasn't all that exciting after all but at the time it was a great accomplishment of my mind.
As for an update, I've written quite a bit since beginning my New Years' resolution. I haven't exactly met my goal every day but I reached over double my goal today so in my mind that makes up for it slightly.
As I was writing the first part of this post I decided to add in a bit about the work I'm doing right now and where it comes from and why I'm writing it and whatnot. So, there are three main things I'm working on. For me its more three sets of characters rather than three stories because I have multiple stories for some of them they just use the same characters. All of them are based off of something in my life (or someone). All of them are also based on a couple or at least a relationship.
The one you just read an excerpt from is, like I said, based on my love of the country and nature and the boys that go along with that. anyone that is on my Facebook has surely seen all my shares about country boys :P basically its about a girl (loosely based on a part of me) that is a country girl at heart but hasn't exactly lived the life. She meets a guy who is the epitome of her ideal country boy. story goes on, not sure where it will end.
The second is about a girl (again loosely based on an aspect of me) that has strong feeling for the wrong guy. Said guy is a drug addict that causes her extreme pain as well as extreme pleasure (and no I don't mean sexual pleasure, get your heads out of the gutter!) I actually do have the end of this one written but only a paragraph of it so we will see how it makes its way there. Perhaps I will share that with you next week. that will depend on if I want to ruin the end and also if I have something else to post instead.
The third is about two generally non-descript characters at the moment. it was more based on a first date idea I wanted to write about. The basic idea is skating on the canal but the girl hasn't skated in years (quel surprise, just like moi!) so this piece has very little thought put into other than the guy is very, very loosely (so far) based off of someone I know.
To end, here is the second excerpt (the end of one of the "mini" stories; the same one the first was a part of) I promised:
When we got there the girls jumped out of the truck and went straight to the house. Jimmy and I stood in front of his beat-up red truck.
"Thanks for a great night, Jameson." I got on my tip-toes and gave him a kiss in the cheek. I turned and started to walk away.
"Wait!" I turned back. "What's Cally short for?"
"Calico." He started to walk toward me.
"No, thank-you, Calico." He kissed me, then turned and walked back to his truck in silence; he left me gasping for my breath. He waved as he backed out onto the road, his smile cutting though the dark of the night.
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