Real Life May End Up In A Book

This writer is very fond of a saying: "Careful or you'll end up in my novel."

Funny thing that, when it comes to making sure that readers can relate to characters and what happens to them, everyday experiences and real life situations work well for demonstrative purposes.

Take the summer of 2017, for example. In this writer's family, a sibling had to have some pretty major heart surgery, so all the rest of us pitched in. Yours truly did probably more than her fair share, but being the one working from home, that was just the way it had to be.

And then, the favorite son arrived for his two weeks at the homestead.

Now, there are those who will say, oh, come on, there isn't a favorite son...you have to see the tail feather and peed on fire hydrants to understand.

So, anyway, this one walks in the front door and does something that is a massive pet peeve among the women in the family: he decided to do our laundry, and put stuff in the drier that doesn't go in the drier. Then, on a Friday, towels only used once went to the laundry area. Towels are washed on Tuesdays. This has been a schedule in the house since the old man retired and took on that job. Aluminum pans and wood handled knives were run through the dishwasher...not describing how things ended up in the kitchen cabinets.

And, of course, there was a problem with us not having a microwave.

Essentially, as usual, this brother walked in the door and started to rearrange the furniture. Again.

Ticks us off.

This is the sort of behavior that ends up in novels. It's not the crazy stuff so much, but what pushes buttons. And doing my laundry wrong pushes my buttons.