The next to last writing tip on literati.com said to write about what you have experienced. So would growing up in a family of 5 with two working parents and two older sibs then leaving home at 20 to try marriage as a single guy while making out on the fire escape at work with office honies be considered as experience? How about changing a clutch on a '58 BelAir in the street with the car elevated by just a bumper jack? How about going to lunch at 11:30AM and getting back at 2 - that's 2AM not 2PM ? Yawn. How about swimming across a 200 ft wide river and being so fatigued halfway across that drowning seemed inevitable? How about teaching a Sunday school class after toking in the parking lot listening to the Stones? This is why fiction is so appealing - Craig got stopped on the way to the meeting and noticed Margie's red lace bra peeking from her neckline so he asked her "Is that a mirror in your pocket? 'Cause I can see myself in your pants" The fire alarm sounded but it does so about 3 or 4 times a month in the rat hole called workplace. The old guy at the newsstand in the lobby lost his brother at Auswitch - he fell off a guard tower. We used to make phone calls from pay phones by pushing a safety pin thru the handset wire and scratching it on the keyhole for the lockbox until we got a dialtone. And we played pinball with the front legs on our toes so the balls moved slower. Latex.