WRITING: Opportunities

I’m glad I decided to start each morning out with a story–throughout the summer but maybe beyond that if I’m still of the mind.

Today’s subject was “perspective” and for me, that just conjured up all kinds of things since it’s the topic I most love to consider, to ponder, to argue, to use as an answer when I just don’t agree with the rest of the world. Even though it came a bit more slowly, though I didn’t have a clue where it was going, it started out as usual with the opening scenario, the opening line. From there it progressed scene by scene until the characters waved their goodbyes.

But what fun! To go back and see things that are double entendre, or reinforcements or metaphors that I simply didn’t realize I’d written! Today’s story, #5 In The Eye, is my favorite so far and I tend to like the lightness of it that belies the statement it makes.

The thing about writing on a regular basis–and personally, I need a deadline, real or imagined, that has something or someone stricter than me as an overseer–is that the ideas will come, the words will roll themselves out, and with the opportunity comes not only practice but improvement.