Based on Making It Up by Penelope Lively we were challenged to create a short story based on a turning point in our lives. A What if? story. I changed my roommates to wildly creative people who weren't interested in early marriage, regular jobs and a home in suburbia. It was exciting and freeing for a while and then I had a complete "failure of imagination." Did that mean I just don't have fiction brain or did it mean my experiences have been so dull or so unobserved that I couldn't get beyond the apartment experience.
I did write a children's story while I was stuck--meaning? Loaded with meaning possibly. That's where I should go. It's easy and I have always taken the hard unnatural way following the peer guides and not my own path. Last night I took my own path!
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