Heide: I’ve really enjoyed writing those.
Iain: It’s been fun and, since it’s all been for charity —
Heide: £2000 raised for the Trussell Trust food bank so far!
Iain: Whoo! It’s been nice to use our writing powers for good rather than for —
Heide: Stupidity?
Iain: Exactly.
Heide: And speaking of stupidity and working together physically, I’ve had a great idea.
Iain: Yeah?
Heide: When we met the other day, we could chat but we couldn’t do that thing where we scribble story ideas down on a big bit of paper and join them up with arrows and plot things out like a great big stupid web.
Iain: My favourite way of planning.
Heide: We could do that while socially distancing by taping some felt-tips to the end of broom handles and writing from afar.
Iain: Really?
Heide: I think it would be really good.
Iain: There’s that GK Chesterton quote “Lying in bed would be an altogether perfect and supreme experience if only one had a colored pencil long enough to draw on the ceiling.”
Heide: Trust you to take my stupid idea and respond with a literary quote.
Iain: Just maintaining the illusion that I’m the ‘clever’ one. Um, I think we should try it but I suspect we won’t be able to read what we’ve written afterwards.
Heide: Oh, ye of little faith.
Iain: I think it’s about finding the right tool for the job. And a six foot broom would not be ideal for writing. I must now show you a video of a chimp failing to follow instructions to repair a satellite.
Heide: Because…?
[Note: there is some strong language in this video]