This is the way two borderlines with narcissism fight in a hospital where they are getting treated for their alcoholism.
A psychiatric hospital- two beds are in one room. A certain someone is dealing with her roommate but not well. These characters represent certain people I know in real life. This fight came from my imagination as a possibility of what they’d say to each other given the opportunity. For the record, I do not pick fights, and it is not always my fault. I know that now.
The therapist watches through the closed glass door.
Scene 1
Patient 1
Damn it lady, you left your socks on the floor again, is this deliberate?
Patient 2
It is not deliberate, it was not my intention to leave a mess.
Patient 1
Of course it’s deliberate, you are such a slob.
Patient 2
Looks down at socks.
Why do you care so much about my socks being on the floor?
Patient 1
Funny, I thought you did.
Patient 2
It’s just a pair of socks. Why do you care?
Patient 1
You should be picking up your goddamn socks, you brat.
Patient 2
Quit telling me what to do, I do not need to do what you say or what anybody else says.
Patient 1
Are you a teenager? Your brain is stuck thinking like that or are you in your 60s?
Patient 2
I can do whatever I want, and nobody can stop me from drinking.
Patient 1
Fuck you.
Patient 2
Don’t tell me to fuck off, whatever.
Patient 1
You suck. Your daughter was right about you.
Patient 2
She’s the troublemaker! It is never me. I’m the innocent one.
Patient 1
You picked a fight with me. Sounds like you get like that with other people in here. People way more fragile than you.
Patient 2
I would be fine if I was allowed to drink.
Patient 1
Crazy bitch. You really think you can do whatever you want in here?
Patient 2
Yes, I can, and I can prove it to you.
Patient 1
I’ve been forced into sobriety, a week in, you have delirium tremens as bad as I do. You aren’t even trying to help yourself. You want to stay stuck in your addiction.
Patient 2
I don’t need to improve myself but my daughter is into that for herself, and I wonder at why.
Patient 1
Quitting the booze is difficult but not impossible. You aren’t making an effort at getting stable.
Patient 2
I don’t have any wine!
Patient 1
No duh, we are meant to be sober, I’m at least making an effort while you refuse to go to therapy groups.
Patient 2
Your friends gave up on you, because you are mean to them.
Patient 1
You are just as mean as I am. Your friends enabled you to drink as much as you did.
Patient 2
I can stop myself.
Patient 1
No you can’t.
Patient 2
Really unlike you, I can stop myself.
Patient 1
I couldn’t and you are struggling.
Patient 2
I am not struggling (arrogant).
Patient 1
Yes you are.
Patient 2
You’re ridiculous.
Patient 1
And you are arrogant as shit.
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Authorpreneur ideas are floating around in my head, let’s see if I can latch onto the ideas in this blog post. One authorpreneur, self-publishing idea is the Experience of self-publishing as idea #1. Authorpreneur idea #2 the missing knowledge I have of marketing, my major authorpreneur weakness, and how library books can fix it. #3 is about how to fix the fact my first book got no sales. Idea #4 is about the other books I’m writing in my series, like Journey to Atlantis, which is complicated, and what kind of fictional details I need to work on. Idea #5, what I am learning in my marketing books, a blow-by-blow description. Idea #6, what I’m going to do in the future to improve my marketing plan. For Idea #7, it will involve how to write a marketing plan. My take on idea #8 is to write a business plan for a book, using my sketchy creative writing business knowledge. Then incoming Idea #9 is how to write a query letter for Opening New Dimensions. Idea #10, what are my other books in the series, like #3-7, since I designed it with Harry Potter as a template.
My self-employment list is going to be very long. I’m trying to write a business plan from it, as I also have to work on my entertainment ideas. My list is 27 job titles long. I want to do everything on the list, to add variety to my life. Future employers take note: I’m the sort of person who has many irons in the fire. This is the way I am. Pagans like having many irons in the fire. It is what we do best. I need to add my desire to guest post for blogs, onto my list. I have a lot to do on any given day. So I get it done, and get it to work for me.
Women on Writing provides fertile ground for new ideas, and I whipped up a list of ideas following an eBook I have about potential magazines to publish with that is 65 pages long. Each idea is a title which could also be viewed as a sentence. Women on Writing gave me several ideas, like Why I’m a writer, my Midlife crisis, Why a writer feels the need to write for non-writers, what is creative non-fiction, breaking into freelance writing, online writing jobs, settings and characters, and conflict in a story. My next assignment is settings and characters, my article ideas are everywhere and I keep getting new ones. It is only fair to give freelancing a shot.
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