Writing

I've belonged to a couple of writers' workshops and an exercise used in one was a participatory story where everyone added their own portion to the story. "Night Hawks" by Edeard Hopper seems straight out of the Film Noir era.

I started it off and as you probably can see, my effort tried to capture the fast-paced short, declarative phrasings/dialogue of the second half of the '40s thru first half of the '50s period, like in "The Maltese Falcon", "The Big Sleep" and other classic films from that era.

I didn't get any takers here on DU, which is a bit disappointing but perhaps appropriate as it's no longer safe in America for women to strike out on their own, alone and walking on our streets at night.

I probably should've put it in the Writers' forum. I don't think I did. The bolded type in the above graph is my comment on the polarized demographic of today that trump, as all other former presidents have done, refuses to leave the stage (he's trying keep his behind out of jail of course, but it won't work as SC Jack Smith and DA Fani Willis are going to get him, just as Tish James, the NY AG, did today.