[stylist] Weekly Writing Challenge

[Vejas Vasiliauskas]

These have all been great! I think we should do this every week 
because it takes off the pressure of having to be all proper and 
correct.
Ten minutes with spell-check, and I decided to use the 
man-woman-restaurant theme as well.  I also stopped mid-sentence 
because the time was up, and I don't even know how I would have 
ended this last sentence!

The couple sat at the table behind us with their three children, 
but pretended that their children weren't there as they began to 
discuss what they wanted to discuss.  Their accents determined 
that they were from Britain.  The man's voice was rather loud, 
while the woman's was much softer.
"I want to have another child," the man said.  "It's been 
thirteen years.  I want a son who likes boy things."
"And what are you going to do if it's a girl, Harry?"
"It can't be a girl!"
"You don't understand.  The last pregnancies I had were very 
tough.  And what's to say that he will still like girly things?"
Their pizza comes and they eat it, pretending not to notice each 
other.
"I'd like to go to prom," their daughter, who was about 16, said.  
"I really want to be asked."
"I hope that you don't get asked," her father replied.  "It's too 
expensive!"
This man really wanted to argue about anything and everything.
"What did you do about YOUR prom?" the girl spat.  "Surely your 
parents didn't give the excuse of "It's too expensive! That's the 
stupidest excuse I've ever heard!"
"As a matter of fact," her father said, "my dad said prom was too 
expensive, and I said nothing.  I would have been a fool to say 
anything." Then turning to his son.  "You really need to play 
baseball this year."
"I don't want to!"
"You're a boy! Boys play baseball!"
One by one, the man watched as all of his relations left their 
foods uneaten and went back to the area they were staying at.  He 
had always known his social skills were poor, but didn't know the 
first thing about how to start a proper conversation.  His 
parents had always said he was hopeless at starting up a 
conversation of any kind that didn't have anything to do with 
sports.
He wasn't crazy enough to talk to himself, so he just sat there 
not knowing what to do.
He had always felt good arguing about something and having the 
upper hand.  Too many times, he had not argued as a child and 
never got what he wanted.  So having the upper hand made him feel 
good.  It didn't help that he had two daughters who were 
headstrong.  But his wife was weak, and he knew that he could get 
his son to play baseball because his son hardly ever argued back.  
Reluctantly, he headed home.  He didn't know what
Vejas
----- Original Message -----
From: Rowena Portch via stylist <stylist at nfbnet.org
To: Writers' Division Mailing List <stylist at nfbnet.org
Date sent: Sat, 6 Jun 2015 12:18:53 -0700
Subject: [stylist] Weekly Writing Challenge

Hi, All,

Another writing group I belong to started this weekly writing 
challenge and it has really helped all of us boost our creativity 
and improve our writing skills as a whole.

If you would like to participate, write a 10-minute story, prose, 
poem, or whatever floats your boat.  Write only for ten minutes, 
even if your work is not finished.  Do not go back and edit your 
work! This is very important.  If you want to share what you have 
written, please do so.  It’s so much fun to see what people 
come up with.

So, this week’s challenge is:
Write for ten minutes about a couple in a coffee shop who is 
sitting next to you.

Go!

If any of you have a writing challenge that you want to do, 
please feel free to post your own writing challenge.  This is a 
fun exercise, especially if everyone shares.


R o w e n a  P o r t c h
Author of the Spirian Saga

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