For Better or For Worse by Lynn Johnston for November 24, 2017

well, that’s quite a bright side to his misery

“She did it again! She made me feel like a fool… and I walked right into it!!”

That fiendish Martha and her wily ways. After all, she made Michael give her that note. She made Michael tell her not to share it. She made Michael follow her around so he could see she was sharing the note. it was all a part of her sinister plotting and poor innocent Michael walked right into it, the fool!!

Michael, this is just the beginning of your long career in creative writing! But I’m getting ahead of myself…..

Another country music song writer is born.

The basis of a lot of good comedy is misery. Think about pratfalls or how much we laugh at those home videos that show folks doing something really stupid and failing.

Glimpses of him becoming a writer in the future.

Creativity, often does spring from personal pain. Adolescence is often the incubator for great artists, because of this.

Get over her, Michael, she’s not worth it.

Pivotal event for a budding writer, or how to turn something negative into a positive.

Have I mentioned how much I hate self-pity?

and that’s why they call it the blues.

“My heart has been crushed like a gumball in the cruel jaws of life.” I just dissolved in laughter at that bathos. Wonderful line!

This is a school, not Love Connection. Get to work!