Sometimes I’m so transparent it only takes 400 words to figure it out

I’ve been asking people I know why it is that I have such an easier time writing dialogue between men than I do between women.  If, for example, I have my heroine and her best friend having a chat about something, I’ll toil over it for days.  I’ll hem and haw and find ways to get distracted.  I’ll over think it and allow the writer’s block to take root.  If, on the other hand, my hero and his best friend are having a discussion I can barely write it down as fast as it’s coming out of my head. 

Men just come so much easier to me.  Why do you, dear readers, suppose that is?

If this was years ago, I would have told you it was because with very few exceptions, I had more guy friends then women friends.  It’s a fact that I’ve always been able to have a great camaraderie with folks of the male persuasion.  I grew up a tom boy and retained much of that attitude through out my life.  My oldest friends are guys.

Now that’s not to say I don’t have good women friends.  Ava and Kelli, obviously, are more than friends, but there are also several other women in my life who know an awful lot about me.  Clearly, it’s not that I don’t get women.

Can I get a clue for my affinity for male conversation from Kelli’s previous post?  Is it because my male conversations are fluff?  I don’t think that’s true.  Of course, you haven’t read my male conversations yet (soon I hope – cross your crossables) so you can’t help me decide. 

One thing I do find with my male conversations, they’re funny.  So, do I think men are comic relief?  I don’t know.  Maybe.  Kurt, are you comic relief?  My brother is pretty funny.  My father hasn’t been funny haha lately, but he does provide a few chuckles.  My Honey is one of the funniest people I know.  Ava’s husband, Ed, is a riot.  My son is a complete clown. 

Maybe that’s it, but as you know from these pages, Ava & Kelli are pretty damn funny.  Faithful reader Michelle is funny.  My mom has a great sense of humor.

I don’t know.  But the more I think about it, the more I suspect this whole convoluted post is a stall tactic to avoid working on chapter fifteen.