Wednesday's Words on a Friday

The original Words for Wednesday was begun by Delores and eventually taken over by a moveable feast of participants when Delores had computer troubles. Sadly, Delores has now closed her blog forever due to other problems.

The aim of the words is to encourage us to write. A story, a poem, whatever comes to mind.

If you are posting an entry on your own blog, please let us know so we can come along and read it.

This month the prompts are supplied by Margaret Adamson and Sue Fulcher and can be found here.

This week's words/prompts are:

1. orange
2. dizzy
3. perpendicular
4. languishing
5. virtuous
6. theatre

and/or:

1. pedestrian
2. laconic
3. stable
4. typewriter
5. dashing
6. branches

here is my story:


I was almost dizzy at the thought of dashing off a few sentences on my typewriter instead of languishing on the sofa reading about dashing heroes being all virtuous yet laconic at the same time.
The news from the latest publishing company had me almost ecstatic. They'd said my work was a little pedestrian, whatever that meant, but they'd be happy to give me a fair trial. That's good enough for me, all I want from this is a stable income. I certainly don't need the perpendicular rise in fame and glory of such prolific writers as Nora Roberts or James Patterson. 
I looked through the stack of manuscripts that all had the orange 'rejected' stamp from the many other branches of publishing houses I'd sent them to over the years.  I chose one of the shorter ones to give the same 'theatre' treatment as the one I'd just had accepted. 
It wasn't to be published as a book, but used as a script for a play. It seems I was destined to be a playwright, not an author of steamy romances. I didn't mind in the least.
Plays are often later made into films and that's where the big money can sometimes be found. Especially if I remembered to sign up for royalties.