I have been trying to write a story about a saxophone for hours now. My first story was about an open mic, where the sax player felt offended by the staff, when really she was being very offensive herself. Next I tried to write a story about dating a sax player that started with "My mother's best advice to me was 'Never date a musician"", but that went clunk after the first sentence. I wrote about a sax player I was once in a band with - we also had a fiddle (me), a flute, a bass, a tsimble, an accordion and a hurdy gurdy, which was all true but the story went nowhere. I wrote about a fellow who cried and sang along as I played a yishmechu, and tried in vain to fit a sax player into that story. I even wrote about finding a plastic saxophone while turning my compost pile.
My final attempt was to write a continuation of my very first freewrite, https://steempeak.com/freewrite/@owasco/coyotes
It started like this:
She cautiously crossed the bridge, scanning her surroundings for the driver. Suddenly her pooch started barking at something behind her! She spun around to see a large burly man wearing a checkered hunting jacket and hat coming toward her. It was not hunting season. Very suspicious! She started to freak. He was holding a black case about the size of a gym bag, just the perfect size for a weapon and goodness knows what else a man lurking in the woods would keep in a gym bag.
Of course the bag had a sax in it and he had brought it to the woods to play where no one would hear him, but that is a story for another day.
So this is NOT my entry to the freewrite challenge https://steempeak.com/freewrite/@mariannewest/day-495-5-minute-freewrite-wednesday-prompt-saxophone because it took me hours and hours to write.
The image is mine.
Thanks for reading!
Well at least it was a honest freewrite.
I can appreciate it, because I felt like I read 5 stories 😊.
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hahaha! I feel like I wrote a hundred. Thanks so much for reading it!
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😅.. I can imagine. Was fun reading it, because anyone who writes can relate.
And freewrite are fun to read in general, also because they are relatively short.
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Good that you kept going on. Sometimes I see the prompt, take one second to think and reject, nope, not doing that. That being said, I also enjoy taking the challenge--especially when I don't know what to write because it clears out the block.
Funny, but I think my favorite of all your mini-stories here is the little sax you found in the compost pile :) An especially vivid image for me, I guess because it was surprising with no need for elaboration.
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That is really interesting because it's the only one of the stories I tried that had no truth in it. I've even been a fiddler in a band with a tsimble and a hurdy gurdy, just the three of us. Thanks for reading my ramblings!
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Sometimes that happens to all of us. But you continued and created. Excellent work. 👍👍 I hope you're doing well.
🚨 Here's today's prompt @owasco🚨
https://steemit.com/freewrite/@mariannewest/day-496-5-minute-freewrite-thursday-prompt-grass-1551326559
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Thank you Uncle! I'm just finishing up writing for that prompt. This one came easily thank goodness. Yesterday's was downright grueling.
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You will be shocked to hear that I love this!
First, "My mother's best advice to me was 'Never date a musician'" - LOL!
And the scary stranger with the black bag that contains, not a gun, but... a sax! You remind me of so many incidents in my own life. But I will stop with the anecdotes. I love your disclaimer *this is NOT my entry to the freewrite challenge--ha! You rebel! You iconoclast! Welcome to the club
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I spent the entire day working on that damn prompt. Almost didn't publish, but decided to hit that (effing) button anyway and go to sleep. Woke up and liked the thing.
Such a trip, this writing thing. Thank you for your effusive support!
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You're welcome! I'm glad you decided to publish. I love seeing the ideas that play out in a writer's mind and which ones live to see the light of day, which ones stay locked in the writer's head. You let yours out for a brief romp - I'd love to see more of that! And to answer your other question, no, I don't write poetry. It's waaaay too hard for me. Pablo Neruda is who I'd most like to write like if I could. Simple words, put together in ways that stir. Mary Oliver, too. Ted Kooser. Thanks for all your kind words.
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