Creative Writing Challenge

Lily, creative writing is one endeavor I've always found incredibly challenging.  Like playing the guitar and piano or drawing and painting, creative writing is something I've tried and wish I did well.

There's obviously something in the artistic center of my brain that lies dormant, if it exists at all.  (I'd say it comes from being dropped on my head as a baby, but my mother never has liked that joke.)  I guess that's why I have such respect for those who are so creative and their works.

Perhaps some bloggers with the artistic flair I lack could offer some of their own short stories.

Michael S. Mann

lily and OneMann,

I'm incredibly impressed by a creative writer. I marvel at the intricate threads they weave through their storytelling and I wonder, wonder, where the ideas come from.

I've tried my hand at writing children's books and have a few stashed away in file folders somewhere but to write the Great American novel or essay, that would be such a satisfying feeling.

"Ode to be..."

/K

What think you of books?” said he, smiling.
“Books? Oh! No, I am sure we never read the same, or not with the same feelings.”
“I am sorry you think so; but if that be the case, there can at least be no want of subject. We may compare our different opinions.”
“No. I cannot talk of books in a ballroom; my head is always full of something else.”
Hearing this, a nearby zombie turned, lured by the prospect of whatever was contained within Elizabeth’s head. He was within striking distance of her when the other dancers caught him up and swept him away by accident and when the music changed to "Thriller" Zombie instincts took over and he forgot about Elizabeth who had returned to trying to figure out which of the women with plunging necklines at the ball were showing off what God had given them or what their Doctors had. 

Lame attempt I know Lily but Zombies make me think of that song and anytime I hear about a "ball" I remember one I went to in Daytona that was a charity event for toys for tots.  I was totally not impressed with my date and spent the evening doing exactly what I'd added to the paragraph.