Agnes by Tony Cochran for September 10, 2022

seems that should be a sitcom and not a novel

I suppose the greatest novels about dogs are “Lassie Come Home” and “Call of the Wild”.

Sorry Agnes… but you see, a picture is only worth a thousand words…

FIFTY thousand words is a very short novel…

Most are at least 75,000 to 100,000.

“War and Peace”, I think, is about half a million words, but it’s OK…. you don’t have to go that long for a first attempt.

All I’m saying is… get writing.

Or else you need a LOT more pictures.

“The Story of Edgar Sawtelle” by David Wroblewski. Read it. It will stay with you for a long time.

I’m glad she changed the subject from kitchen utensils.

now she’s going to switch to a dogged approach…

“The Dogs of Poor”

“Big Head”

“Old Yeller: A Story of My Grandma”

Generic Four-Line Dog Story:

I had a dog,

That dog was a pain in the neck,

The dog died,

That was the best dam` dog I ever knew.

(That outline seems to cover a sizeable majority of dog stories, fictional or otherwise.)

WOW ! Trout likes something !

To Say Nothing of the Dog.

Give them what they want…or sell it anyway.

It helps to have a story idea even if it is just a scene.