Friday, September 26, 2003
sometimes the muse is gone
i'm in children's writing class. i found out that children's writing is a lot harder than i thought. i wrote about how i found my dog. my story is terrible you can read it here.
when i told my friend matt what i was doing -- he decided to volunteer to write the last page and than decided to just start from scratch. here's what he came up with:
Eddie the Supermarket Dog
Chapter 1
“Katherine, get your shoes on, it’s time to go to the store”!
The only thing Katie hated worse than being called Katherine was having to go to the store with her mother. Why couldn’t she just stay at home with her pet gecko, Spot, and Sam, her box turtle, who liked to eat pieces of lettuce right out of her hand and ducked his scaly head into his shell when she opened the lid of his aquarium too quickly? She was a big girl now, she could take care of herself. Actually, going to the store with Mom might not be so bad, she realized, placing Sam gently back into his glass home. Mom usually let her spend a few minutes with her nose pressed against the windows of the pet store right next to the Safeway, ogling the exotic, colorful birds and reptiles and gazing lovingly at the kittens who mewed preciously with barely opened eyes. But what Katie wanted most of all was a puppy. She imagined big brown eyes and floppy ears, a pink tongue slobbering and a tail wagging happily for her every day when she got home from school.
“I’ll be down in a minute, Mom”! she yelled out her bedroom door.
Katie tugged her socks over her feet, put on her shoes and tied them. She put on her jacket and as she left her bedroom bid her customary farewell to her pets.
“Goodbye, Sam, goodbye, Spot…don’t eat too many of those mealworms while I’m gone!”
And then the author realized he was too drunk and tired and therefore quite incapable of finishing this story within the time allotted. So then he wrote:
Chapter 2
Katie trudged slowly down the stairs towards her mother who stood with her purse in one hand and the other hand pointed towards a table which held a three foot length of chain, a bottle of Draino and a funnel, and a copy of Dashboard Confessional’s “MTV Unplugged” performance.
“Choose, bitch”.
Katie hesitated…Christ, the chain or the Draino…anything’s better than that Dashboard shit…
All of a sudden, Eddie the Supermarket Dog crashed through the window, chewed out Katie’s mom’s throat and then humped the leg of her dead corpse. Katie decided to adopt Eddie and fed her ugly-ass gecko and stupid turtle to him. Then they got married cuz Katie had some serious issues.
The End.
¶ 2:57 AM
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i'm in children's writing class. i found out that children's writing is a lot harder than i thought. i wrote about how i found my dog. my story is terrible you can read it here.
when i told my friend matt what i was doing -- he decided to volunteer to write the last page and than decided to just start from scratch. here's what he came up with:
Eddie the Supermarket Dog
Chapter 1
“Katherine, get your shoes on, it’s time to go to the store”!
The only thing Katie hated worse than being called Katherine was having to go to the store with her mother. Why couldn’t she just stay at home with her pet gecko, Spot, and Sam, her box turtle, who liked to eat pieces of lettuce right out of her hand and ducked his scaly head into his shell when she opened the lid of his aquarium too quickly? She was a big girl now, she could take care of herself. Actually, going to the store with Mom might not be so bad, she realized, placing Sam gently back into his glass home. Mom usually let her spend a few minutes with her nose pressed against the windows of the pet store right next to the Safeway, ogling the exotic, colorful birds and reptiles and gazing lovingly at the kittens who mewed preciously with barely opened eyes. But what Katie wanted most of all was a puppy. She imagined big brown eyes and floppy ears, a pink tongue slobbering and a tail wagging happily for her every day when she got home from school.
“I’ll be down in a minute, Mom”! she yelled out her bedroom door.
Katie tugged her socks over her feet, put on her shoes and tied them. She put on her jacket and as she left her bedroom bid her customary farewell to her pets.
“Goodbye, Sam, goodbye, Spot…don’t eat too many of those mealworms while I’m gone!”
And then the author realized he was too drunk and tired and therefore quite incapable of finishing this story within the time allotted. So then he wrote:
Chapter 2
Katie trudged slowly down the stairs towards her mother who stood with her purse in one hand and the other hand pointed towards a table which held a three foot length of chain, a bottle of Draino and a funnel, and a copy of Dashboard Confessional’s “MTV Unplugged” performance.
“Choose, bitch”.
Katie hesitated…Christ, the chain or the Draino…anything’s better than that Dashboard shit…
All of a sudden, Eddie the Supermarket Dog crashed through the window, chewed out Katie’s mom’s throat and then humped the leg of her dead corpse. Katie decided to adopt Eddie and fed her ugly-ass gecko and stupid turtle to him. Then they got married cuz Katie had some serious issues.
The End.
¶ 2:57 AM
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