About the Author: Sheila M. Sullivan

 

I laughed my way into writing these Ponder Points. Two things I enjoy collided for me in Fargo, North Dakota. I found myself sitting in an auto shop waiting room looking at my blank computer screen. Writer’s block had hit me hard. I knew the car would take a couple of hours to repair, and I had time to work on my novel. Only my characters had exited my brain and dropped the mike on my story.

 

An email from one of our dear friends in Dallas, Texas, inquired as to how the drive north fared for us. I started to write a response to the question about our move and drive from Dallas to Fargo when a man came into the otherwise empty waiting room. He was speaking in the native Fargo accent, made so famous by both the movie and television show sporting the name Fargo, on speaker-phone to his wife about their car.

 

The conversation between the two of them struck me as completely normal and funny at the same time. I included it in my email. Ponder points began at that moment. I love to write and I love to laugh. I wanted to share the observations with others and if they laughed it was icing on the low-carb cake. As our adventures continued across the United States, more and more Ponder points happened. Most are funny. Some are not. They became my way to coax my characters back into my writing time. For the friends who started receiving them in emails, they became an addiction to laughter and the excuse to ponder their own points in this life.

 

How do I know Ponder Points became an addiction? Those friends keep asking for more.