Susan’s Inside Writing: Friendship

The prompt this week at Writer’s Island was Friendship. No problem, I thought. I’ll post something with Trevor and Mitchell playing off each other.

My first thought was Smoke Break. Problem was, that’s mostly Trevor and Val, with Mitchell coming in at the end.

No, I thought. I want a real exchange between the boys. After all, I describe them as being as close as brothers.

Maybe Flags? That’s a good one, but maybe… just maybe you had to have some more background on who these guys are and why they are dreaming like this.

Quitting? This was a good one, where Trevor has just quit school and Mitchell comes to find out why. No, I thought. It’s too rant-laden. I wanted something more… gentle, I guess. Some quiet moment between the boys.

That meant that Mitchell’s Ears and Naked were both right out, too. As was The Time Before Dinner.

I didn’t want to resort to the Thursday Thirteen I’d written; that’s a list. A good one, but…

Oh, the choices seemed endless — and endlessly wrong.

I finally went with Eric’s Flu, figuring that at least the guys were trying to show friendship toward Eric, even if they’re sort of clueless about how.

But… what do you guys think? Was that the best choice, or should I have dug around a bit more? Can you think of something better?

And is Camille right? Do I have enough outtakes published here to collect into their own volume and put out there for my groupies to collect?