From Love of Comics and Writers

[Joey Delgado]

The group always sits at my table, perhaps because I keep their drinks coming, knowing when their glasses are half full they'll be ready for more by the time I bring the next round.

 

They are a group of writers with no official name, but I secretly call them The Scribes, and using my prodigious eavesdropping skills I discovered each member has a particular gift, so I named them, too.

 

The gentleman with two months of facial hair growth and a denim jacket is The Road Warrior, a defender of good who loves the open American highway, who is an advocate for the people (although he doesn't like them very much), who does things like fish with the Inuit in Alaska and walk the Oregon Trail, and who always keeps worn copies of On the Road and The Communist Manifesto in his camoflauge backpack.

 

The woman sitting next to him, the one wearing jewelry made of polished driftwood, who drinks only gin & tonics is The Quip-Master,  she with the superhuman ability to know what to say in every situation, to whittle down to size the asinine with the power of her words, a sniper firing off perfectly on-target parting shots, the keeper of Ms. Dorothy Parker's legacy.

 

The young man with carefully parted hair and wire-framed glasses is known to me simply as The Encyclopedia, who can pull random factoids out of thin air if necessary, who can tell you who wrote the 1979 film Alien as easily as he could give you the capitals of all Middle Eastern countries, who has a nightstand piled high with back issues of The New Yorker.

 

There are more at the table, others with nicknames and superpowers, there's Heartstring, who understands human emotions better than most, and The Sage, whose strength is the lyrical way he advises writers and instructs them on all things writing, and then there's me, their biggest fan, hanging on to every word.

 

 

[Brittany]

this was cool. i felt myself hanging on every word in anticipation of the writers different descriptions. great peek!

[Joey Delgado]

Thanks, everyone. :)

Bill, I imagine the table filled with superheroes of writing. The Doubler would definitely be a supervillain of writing, along with The Serial Quiller, who wreaks havoc with his ability to inflict writer's block on all susceptible parties.

[Russo Lewis]

What can I say?  I enjoyed it.  It's good and a good lesson in writing too...in six sentences...so doubly good.  

[Giovanni Mendoza]

This is pretty fun to read. I agree the Road Warrior is the funnest character.

[Gloria Watts]

Good descriptions, particularly liked The Road Warrior, although of course he wouldn't be liking me.

[Gita]

lol @Ron. 

Then there's Chameleon who is trying on all the different voices and styles she can think of and enjoying the variety. And don't forget tough-guy Sluggo who writes gritty noir but in reality is a dentist.

[Bill Floyd]

Definitely a cool peek into the writer's psyche.  Insightful all around, especially your depiction of The Road Warrior as an advocate of the people even though he doesn't particularly like people.  That sums up a lot of blabbermouths I know very succinctly.  

I'd add The Doubter, who is always second-guessing himself and wondering what the hell he's doing.  

Alien--Dan O'Bannon & Ronald Shusset, I believe.  That's without looking it up on the internets... Did you know that film was written specifically to sexually terrorize males?  Worked, too... 

[Teresa]

This is fiction?  If so, then these are aspects of you, dude.  And if these Scribes actually exist separately, you're one lucky guy.  We sixers have to fly from all over the world (literally) to hang out together.  But this is okay.  What are the chances that our writer soul mates would live next door?  GORGEOUS writing.  Faved.

[Ron. Lavalette]

Oh, that bar...

[Mike Handley]

Outstanding. I wish you were coming to meet and break bread with a dozen of your fellow Sixers and 10'ers next week in Kansas (our third gathering). We've rented a house beside a lake. If you're impulsive and free anytime from July 25-29, send me a message.