Once Upon a Time..
...There was a beautiful young writer who couldn’t write. She knew she was a writer, it was the only thing she wanted to be. Everything about her screamed diction, vocabulary and antecedent actions, but still she couldn’t write. There came a point where those around her began to doubt her claims. “Pseudo-story teller” they jeered, “you’re just a poetic wanna-be”. She began to doubt herself. Why couldn’t she form her own ideas? She was haunted by dreams of plot flaws and run-on sentences. Her days were filled with linguistic nightmares and fairy-tale rip offs, until she began to question to her inner core whether she was built to do this at all.
Ending A:
Fortunately she was a patient young pen-woman and continued to work at her day job and develop her ideas by night until she had saved enough bling to attend writing school, where she learned about composition and the perfectly placed comma, Her ideas began to take shape, and with the helpful guidance of her well versed (though consistently be-spectacled) professors the young, exceptionally beautiful not to mention incredibly talented writer went on to write very famous published works in manner of Shakespeare et al.
Ending B:
After questioning her dream, and revisiting some of her less-than stellar works, she began to become disillusioned with her ability. She wrote less and less. She stopped calling her editor friends, and began to avoid the library like the plague. Happy memories of Chapters became an ephemeral dream. Then one day she gave up all together. Now this disenfranchised (albeit still very beautiful) young writer works as a manager at the local fast food chain, where the longest piece of writing is on the 2nd stall on the left.
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Ending A:
Fortunately she was a patient young pen-woman and continued to work at her day job and develop her ideas by night until she had saved enough bling to attend writing school, where she learned about composition and the perfectly placed comma, Her ideas began to take shape, and with the helpful guidance of her well versed (though consistently be-spectacled) professors the young, exceptionally beautiful not to mention incredibly talented writer went on to write very famous published works in manner of Shakespeare et al.
Ending B:
After questioning her dream, and revisiting some of her less-than stellar works, she began to become disillusioned with her ability. She wrote less and less. She stopped calling her editor friends, and began to avoid the library like the plague. Happy memories of Chapters became an ephemeral dream. Then one day she gave up all together. Now this disenfranchised (albeit still very beautiful) young writer works as a manager at the local fast food chain, where the longest piece of writing is on the 2nd stall on the left.
POLLS ARE OPEN, VOTE ON YOUR FAVORITE ENDING. This poll may or may not directly affect my fate, future and general career choices, so vote accordingly.
posted by Rach at 8:15 PM
3 Comments:
As I feel a stab of familiarity with this post, I'd have to say option A. Don't give up! I've got a few years on you and I'm just starting to check out options. That being said, I expect to be next in line after D with the dedication once your world famous series comes out.
Ending C: The young lass finally realizes that the entire reason for her failed attempts at writing was her rash (albeit hasty) decision to move to another land where the average IQ is…sub-par…due to the inhalation of magical grasses and she moves back where she belongs and finds all the inspiration she needed was there from the beginning. And then she moves to China with her amazingly level-headed friends and starts up a backpacker's café ministry.
BTW your choice to write this lament about not being able to write in a story format is highly ironical.
I miss you too Chuck.
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