From time to time I'll go back and look over some past writing I've done. I have a file that is nothing but single paragraphs, just the start of a story, and reading over them a few years after the fact is kind of funny because I have no idea where they came from. If I used a prompt I always put that at the top of the page but there are some that have nothing which means they came to me by way of a Muse. A really inept Muse who stays for like half a page and then flits off to get a pedicure with the other Muses.
I wrote this one about a robot who does nothing but walk. How did I end up writing about a robot? I don't even like robots. They kind of scare me.
Or the one about a man trying to sell a pair of wool socks he claims were worn by Hemingway when he wrote A Farewell to Arms. This one had me rolling. I like the guy.
There's the one about a mother of seven grown sons who all still live at home and who, she believes, will never find wives who will love them the way she does. It's a comedy. And I'm telling you I can see all seven sons like they're standing in front of me. One of them is named Seth.
I wrote about one of my very first memories, when I was 2 and saw a tree stump entirely covered in ladybugs. The stump looked like it was wiggling.
There's the story about a bike race that goes across the state of Illinois and a woman who sells meat pies at one of their stops.
I wrote about a man who got to choose either to go to Rome or go into space and he chose space because he loved astronaut ice cream when he was a kid but then realizes that gelato is better and was regretting his choice. I was way more descriptive than I normally am in this one and I questioned whether or not I even wrote it.
Which one do you think I should flesh out? Don't say the robot one because I have no idea where I was even going with it.
7 comments:
I'm going to vote for the sock one. That sounds fun! But I'm curious to see where the ladybug one heads. I'm very into ladybugs lately!
Probably the sock one or theseven sons.
I want the bike race one. Sounds thrilling!
I like the wool socks. Because it sounds funny and sad at the same time, which sort of sounds like real life.
Another vote for sockman.
I kind of want to hear more about the seven sons.
I love the Rome vs space one!
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