This is something new I am trying - to write at least 500 words a day. I call it the Felt.Buzz Five Hundred. I write a five-minute freewrite and then add more words to get to the magic number...
Prompt: “nautical language”
https://steemit.com/freewrite/@mariannewest/day-773-5-minute-freewrite-monday-prompt-nautical-language
The first thing that struck Mandy about Ivan when she first met him was that he spoke funny.
"You speak funny," she said after he had invited her to hoist her anchor and sail away with him.
"I'm trying out nautical language," he explained. "I went on a barge holiday with my parents last year to the Norfolk Broads and I think that the ocean life would quite suit me."
Mandy didn't know much about Norfolk, and all she knew about "broads" was that it seemed to be an old American slang - and not very nice too - word for a woman.
"Do they have a big ocean in Norfolk?" she asked.
"Not yet," Ivan said, indicating to the barman that he would like to be served. "But when global warming really gets going most of it will be under the sea."
"That's nice," Mandy said. She didn't know much about global warming, but her gran said that it couldn't be a bad thing if the winters were a bit warmer. She would save on the gas bill, her gran said.
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“Well,” Ivan said, pausing whilst he took a sip of the beer the barman had plonked down in front of him. Mandy resisted the impulse to wipe the foam from the top of his lip. “It probably won’t be nice living in a Water World. If that Kevin Cosner film is anything to go by, anyway. But I’m getting ready.”
“Have you got a boat?”
“Ship.” Ivan took another sip. “They call it a ship.” Mandy thought he sounded a bit smug. She hoped he wasn’t one of those people who liked to put her down. She seemed to attract people like that. “No. But I’ve got a canoe.”
Mandy wondered if you could survive long in a canoe. Where would you put the kitchen? Where would you sleep?
“I like dry land,” she said, taking a sip of her gin and tonic. It was a little strong, so she added more tonic from the bottle the barman had placed next to her drink. “It feels safer.”
“Most accidents occur at home. That’s a fact. So living on the water must be safter.”
Mandy thought about that for a moment.
“What about houseboats?”
Ivan stared at her for a second. Then he nodded. “You have a point there.”
Mandy smiled. Ivan was nice. Her sister had said she would like him. Mandy hadn’t dated anyone for such a long time. After Derek, she didn’t think she would.
“What do you do? Other than planning for global warming.”
“I work for the council,” Ivan said. “I work in the park. I may get a promotion soon. My boss is retiring, and he says if I play my cards right and keep my nose clean, he’ll put in a good word for me.”
“That’s nice. I work in an office. My boss doesn’t like me much. But that’s okay. I don’t like her either.”
“Maybe she’ll drown when the ocean comes.”
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(Today I wrote… exactly 500 words!)
As usual I wrote the freewrite in five minutes using themostdangerouswritingapp.com and then copied and pasted it into a googledoc, tied it up a bit and then wrote more words!
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