Pen and paper –
Find them quick!
Show me!…Good.
Write your name at the top,
And draw a vertical line
Down the centre.
Good. Hurry now.
Now, you don’t have long.
Write down everything — left side –
Everything you wanted to do in life.
On the right, write down why.
No, there’s no time to think.
Hurry, hurry now.
This is important.
What? What do you mean you don’t know?
Well, ha! Too late now.
Off we go, boys! Off we go!
| writing that puts story first
Bradley Robb likes TV and books, and has an intense dislike for cinnamon. Once, Bradley stopped a Soviet T-60 with his middle finger. Bradley writes speculative fiction and edits Fiction Matters, and never really got the hang of talking about himself in the third person.