My podcast this week is from a short story I need to finish today. (Yeah, nothing like the last minute, Johanna.)
A very kind person also offered me feedback about the titles from previous “60 seconds” posts and the podcast.
I expect to change the titles here and on my YouTube channel. I'm not totally sure I will change the podcast titles on the podcast. (I worry that will update the RSS feed for all the episodes.)
The Podcast:
The Transcript:
I’m Johanna Rothman, and this is Johanna’s 60 Seconds of Writing WIP for February 14, 2025, where I read an excerpt of just a minute of some writing in progress.
First, a note about this podcast: I have changed the name to “Writing in Public with Johanna Rothman, because that is much more descriptive.
This is from a short story, tentatively titled “Action! A Saint Patrick’s Day Story.”
The brisk wind flew off Boston Harbor, down Columbia Road in South Boston, bringing with it the salty hint of the harbor, enhanced with the delightful buttery and salty odors of fresh popcorn and hotdogs. Patrice Finkelbaum inhaled deeply. Her two favorite food groups: salt and fat. Well, she had a third favorite—the sweet rich taste of dark chocolate. Plain dark chocolate. Adding anything to dark chocolate was practically a sin.
The man with the white bullhorn yelled, “We need another take. Everyone in position.”
While the temperature was in the mid-forties, with the wind, it felt more like mid-February—the kind of cold that chilled a body from the inside out. It wasn’t the temperature in Boston, it was the humidity at any season—summer, fall, and winter. Not to mention spring. Because it sure didn’t feel like spring to Patrice.
Patrice rolled her eyes, wondering who had the not-so-brilliant idea to make a movie of the St. Patrick’s Day parade. She suspected it was the same person who had originally uninvited all the female leprechauns to the parade.
That was also practically a sin.
The Video Link
See the video here.