In my creative writing class I need to give a friend a choice of three events that happened to me in a house I have lived in, and the friend will tell me what scene sounds most interesting to read about. (It won't be an actual story, just a one to two page description.)
Glendale, Arizona, age 8.
1) teaching "Batman" choreography to my neighbor friends in the blazing summer heat of our driveway
2) watching a huge black cricket crawl up my grandmother's leg in the living room, too afraid to tell her
3) baking large soft pretzels for weeks in the kitchen to sell in order earn money to go to jump rope camp
So, what do you choose?
8 comments:
Number two! Cricket! The other experiences sound interesting, sure, but it's a real challenge to describe such a simple thing as a cricket crawling up a leg and being too terrified to do anything about it. Comedy!
I love that each story suggestion began with a verb! These will all be wonderful stories no matter which you choose!
[uh oh... I think a whole bunch of nerdiness spilled out of me and landed in your comment box]
I choose Grandma and the creeping cricket. What suspense!!!
Actually, each suggestion begins with a gerund, the noun form of a verb. To be honest (not that it matters in the context), those suggestions are incomplete sentences for they all lack a verb. Now that's nerdy.
I agree with number two. The others are nice but two lengthy a time period to be as complete and as interesting as an exblaberation of such a short experience like the cricket and the fear
tamara, your endearing nerdiness causes me to suspect you as the true identity for the anonymous commentor! have i caught you in your attempt at sneakery?
em, i have to agree! number two! the tension is just too irresistable. although perhaps you've told it all in your sentence fragment, & there wouldn't be more to say after that...
i miss you!
oh no, i'm not NEARLY that nerdy! :) but i now love "anonymous" more than i've ever loved before!
I think it is easy for anyone to picture a cricket crawling up someone's leg in their mind.
I think it would be more difficult to describe the other two situations - forcing your writing to be more creative. I could be wrong.
I want to read about how you could describe 'batman choreography' and/or how blissfully perfect an 8-year old might imagine 'jump rope camp' to be.
One time, I disected a huge black Mormon cricket with my friend for her entomology class. I like the cricket story!
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