Saturday, September 5, 2009

You sit down with the assignment in hand and your brain shuts down. You think about the different ways to approach the story and it feels like your head is going to explode. You decide to break it into smaller pieces, hoping something spectacular will flow from the ends of your fingers. You sit and stare at the blank sheet a little longer, then put some words to it. If you’re lucky those first words will flow into a story worthy of the assignment. If you are not so lucky, edits and rewrites will be the theme of the hours looming in front of you. You are a budding writer.

1 comment:

  1. Nice--this is a variation of the first-person one, but told with different details and, somehow, a different tone, maybe just a little more forgiving of/kind to the budding writer. You agree?

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