I've been on a health kick of late and before you block me.
Hear me out.
Steak, 4-6 eggs, loads of pink Himalayan salt and water
(Distilled or bottled I'm not that precious)
Cutting out the carbs and dairy and it's been tough.
I call it the Toxic Masculinity Diet and the name is just purely for entertainment purposes and to rile up the sensitive souls who can't take a little light humour.
Anyways. So today I went to the local coffee shop a good 15 minute walk from where I live.
Nothing fancy and nothing pretentious like Starbucks or whatever.
Just a family owned coffee shop, that on the weekends ends up being packed to the brim.
So I get the usual black coffee, wholewheat toast with butter, peanut butter cause obviously I need extra butter... And mashed up banana all together.
Now you might be thinking that besides the coffee. That is the type of thing a kid would eat.
You're right. I am a big kid and I am not gonna change.
Afterall, I've been good all week and Sunday is my treat day.
So as I'm eating and enjoying the coffee (Even though there's about 732 people in there)
I open my email and check the replies, followed by hitting the spam folder to see what has crept in there.
Fellow writers I follow and the usual suspect crypto nerds float around there...
Oh and the ones who say they've managed to hack your devices and saw you do unspeakable things in front of your web cam.
(Those are always super fun and entertaining and I reply to them sometimes to see if they'll bite)
The thing is. The spam folder can teach you so much about great writing, especially those first few sentences that suck you in.
You should always keep an eye on it if you want a chuckle, but the spam emails that make you want to open them.
There are lessons wrapped up in there.
And if you don't want to venture into the spam folder. The next best thing is Writing Dynamite Story Hooks
Now it's time to head back home and get out of this cold weather.
Stephen Walker