First exercise

The exercise was to write two short paragraphs, one containing one fact and three fictions, the other one fiction and three facts:

1.
Horrors, my first job interview in twenty-one years! Wracked with nerves for days in advance, I debated about what to wear and how to present myself. Anxious not to look my age I spent money I didn't have writhing with misery in the hairdressers while my grey hair returned to the blonde of my youth. Now, successful in my deceptions, I am asking myself, do I really want to be a shop assistant?

2.
Last night, sleepless again, I went through the usual rituals: trying to turn my thoughts way from the distracting yammering, fetching a drink, listening to several chapters of Persuasion, turning the pillow for a fresh cool spot. Each time I dozed, I woke again. Finally, despairing, I got up and went outside to listen to the night.

Start writing fiction

This blog is my writing associated with the Start Writing Fiction MOOC run by the Open University. Some of it will be Very Dull Indeed, so I suggest you don't read it unless you have to! The blog is really intended as a place to share stuff with fellow participants in the course.