How many posts like this has the internet seen? I shudder to think. Anyway, here goes: testing, testing, one, two, three! And so I leap out of LiveJournal (that was luminous4.livejournal.com, on the off chance anyone cares) and into the world of real-ish-looking blogs. It seems like a moderately good idea now. It probably won’t later. Oh well! 
I should begin with something interesting…hmmm. Well, today in magazine writing class – a strange experiment in torture by being berated for three hours straight about our poor story pitching skills – I decided I would really like to write about hiccups. What is a hiccup, anyway?
There’s this girl in St. Petersburg, Florida, who hiccuped 50 times in every waking minute through most of January and all of February – and now, the AP article said, she’s at it again. That poor kid. She’s now known as “the hiccup girl” in her hometown. What would it be like to have everything you do interrupted with 50 hiccups a minute? And for months on end? I couldn’t stand it. How does she?
Anyway, I probably won’t end up writing this story. Who knows? Just thought I should give a taste of how my brain is working these days. To wit: there’s a lot of real news going on this week – the budget dropped, Gordon O’Connor is (hopefully) in a lot of trouble over Afghanistan mismanagement, the trial of the dreadful Lord Black is starting (and I’m sick of it already) – but I’m mostly thinking about hiccups.
In conclusion: hooray for minutiae! Cheers, and thanks for reading; I’ll be back soon-ish.
I don’t even know if you’ll read this comment, but I’ve just finished reading ‘Made to Stick’ a book that theorizes about how to get people to remember your ideas, whatever they may be. Having read that, seems like your story idea covers their moniker pretty well:
S(imple): It’s a story about a girl who hiccups alot.
U(nexpected): How often does a grl with hiccups get written about?
Stupid interweb….where was I:
S(imple): It’s a story about a girl who hiccups alot.
U(nexpected): How often does a grl with hiccups get written
about?
C(oncrete): This girl’s real and lives in Russia
C(redible): well, this is harder to fit…
E(motional): You gotta feel for the poor girl
S(tory): Well, you’ll be telling her story.
It’s surprising (or not so) how well that worked.
very interesting, but I don’t agree with you
Idetrorce