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By Jeremy Kirby
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“Dreaded writers block. I’ll nip that in the giblets,” he announced with confidence.
He looked around at his new office. A place to let his imagination soar – or so he thought. He sat behind a large wooden desk. Sitting on it was a new 23-inch touchscreen computer having the latest version of Office installed on it. He had a multi-compartmental pencil holder made of mahogany that held twenty, bran new, Ticonderoga number two’s alongside of an assortment of ink pens and paperclips. Of course, he had a row of how-to books on crafting the perfect “murder-mystery” and a few classics like “The adventures of Huckleberry Finn” by Tom Sawyer.
No, none of that worked. The inspiration of 300 authors on the bookshelf behind him did not move him in the slightest. Therefore, he did what he knew best. He grabbed his fine tip Sharpie and a pad of paper and began to scribble.
Here we go, this is easy cheesy, nice and simple. Easy…what is easy?
He jotted down the word EASY at the top of the page and underlined it.
i. Pride – pride is easy. Let us see, uh, Lucifer’s rebellion, yup, yup.
ii. Putting together something from Walmart.
iii. Fixing a car by watching a YouTube video.
He made a nice outline below the main topic.
Now, let’s contrast it... Something really difficult.
i. Kid starting a bike repair shop using tools that don’t belong to him. Yeah, that sounds good. No, no that’s boring. No one will read that.
i.
Back to Easy:
i) Nice
ii) Simple
iii) Piece of cake
iv) A pleasant promise – seems easy, but then gets complicated.
“Oh huff, fluff and nothing but dumb stuff,” he said with quite a bother.
Simple and nice... what is simple and nice? Cookies, tacos, omelets, coffee, bible stories and trees, animals and streams.
He wrote it all down and flipped to the second page when Huckleberry Finn looked him in the eye. That’s it, he thought.
I’ll write about a boy just like Huck Finn. It’ll be in the 1800’s, southern– no, northern United States. Can’t be Huck Finn, just someone like him. Okay, a name… Blackberry Bill, Raspberry Sam. No, no berries at all. Melons maybe. Squashmelon Jones!
Okay:
-A boy is playing in the woods and meets a tribe of Red Indians.
-They teach him of the Great Spirit.
-He tells them the Christmas story.
“Oh that’s awful! I have no idea where to go from there.” Stephen stewed over it for a bit and then pressed on.
-Gypsy boy is out gathering firewood before the evening circle when he meets a Native American.
-The Indian ties him up and says, “I’ll let you go if you teach me something neat!”
Stephen slammed the notebook shut. He was obviously depressed. He spent a lot of money on this office; he traded his experience in the company for a part time position so that he could focus on writing more. Now he could not envision anything worth writing. Truly, he was like the great War Rig of Mad Max, stuck in a desolate, muddy quagmire that was once a fertile oasis. Now, it was a poisonous pit full of ominous crows.
He raised his head from the desk and slid the notebook back in front of him once again. He opened it to the first page and began to leaf through it. He saw all the times that he was in the same predicament, scribbling this and that onto paper.
He didn’t remember it now, but an idea he had twenty pages before tonight’s jottings seemed brilliant. With a steady trickle of inspiration, much like the buzzing of a dream stitched together in the sky by an old giant, he began to write.
Stephen took the pieces of the notebook and weaved them together intricately, like a great tapestry. The hours passed no slower than did the seconds. As the morning sun beamed through the window, he typed the last two words of a marvelous tale.
–The End.
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