Rick Ranson

The purpose of all fiction is to create an emotion in a reader….  Stein.

When you are describing a person, start with their shoes…. Hemingway

Wallow in the sound of language, so you can almost taste the sound.

Reveal the darker truths of all your characters. This has to happen to every character.

Shakespeare :

‘The innocence of sinning.’

‘Steel inside their darker armour.’

‘High Noon of their relationship.’

“A mouldy rogue.”

‘A riotous carnival of the English language.’

‘Write with a heartbeat, a rhythm.’

Great writing is poetry, with a road map.’ Ranson (me!)

British Columbia law says that all bicycles have to have a bell or a horn. The law is universally ignored by everybody until the cops do a safety blitz. Then the fine is $30.00. I bought a bell for my bike. It looks good. It’s round and black, and shiny , and sounds like a four-year-old owns it.

I told everyone I met that my new bell is a real prize. I call it my new bell prize.

Me: “Holy shit, after a while that new bike sure does chafe.”
Rob: “Never mind,  where it chafes, you don’t use anymore.”

“I bought this bike to lose weight. It’s really working because I’m already down $700.00,”

“I see your chaffing problem. Your bike’s seat is set too high. Your ass has a real jailhouse wiggle.”

“The trouble with living in an old apartment is that they creak. All the time, creak, creak, creak. Bob , you ever lived in an old apartment?”
“No! No never! Never have , never will again!”

“About as useless as a midget with a yo-yo.”

“About as ugly as a half-chewed caramel.”

“Smelled like a skunk that shit in some work socks.”     Andy Weir     The Martian.

“Tighter than a lid on a pickle jar.”

and finally

“Ass-cheeks gripping his panties like a vacumn.”

 

 

June 8th 1919, 20 year-old Lucienne Dora Eugene stepped down from the train on Main Street Winnipeg and into the arms of 37 year-old Lorne Arthur Ranson. Lucienne was accompanied by a couple she had met on the ship over from England Mr.. and Mrs. George Pinkus. The happy couple and their entourage then went directly to St. Mary’s Catholic Church where, it being a Sunday, and regular services were being held, they had to wait in the anti-room to be married.

After the small ceremony that was witnessed by Mr. and Mrs. deBrules (Lorne’s half sister Ida and her husband) they went to Lorne’s mother’s house at 46 Ellen Street.

They bypassed a crowd estimated at 10,000 strikers gathered to hear a speech by Rev. John Woodward (One of the originators of Canada’s NDP Labour party) Lucienne and Lorne spent their first few married weeks hunkered down inside Marie Mulligan’s house on Ellen Street while the Winnipeg General Strike ran it’s course.

‘Where’s Papa going with that axe?’    Charlotte’s Web

‘Chris Mankowitz’s last day on the job, two in the afternoon, two hours left, he got a call about a bomb.’   Elmore Lenard

‘ Many a poor southern farmer has made a career decision in the heat of the day.’
Man in Profile –    Thomas Krunkle

‘This story is more truthful than factual.’   Joseph Mitchell

And from my next book.

‘When a child cries out in pain from the private quarters of the Royal Family in Windsor Castle, people tend to take notice. ‘
Rick Ranson – Almost A Royal, Windsor Castle to Winnipeg.