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The Adventures of a Renegade Dreamer
How long can you fiddle with something WONDERFUL before you take it to the next level?
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Entry #633935, added on 02-04-09 @ 6:01 pm EST
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Never Wasted...Entry #633935
So often I've avoided exercises and writing prompts and contests. I have more than enough ideas than I have time already. Why should I spend such time in writing what someone else wants me to write. It's the bane of English teachers! However, lately I have not only tried to get over that, but I have found that having an open mind about it, more often than not, I find myself doing double duty. For instance, in a workshop we were asked to assignments based on a cafe. I decided that I would create a setting to use in my next planned book. It gave me an interesting twist since it ended up as an fantasy, elven cafe. I had the book idea for "Worst Mistake" and then when I found a flash fiction contest saying write something that happens durring a black out. So I wrote "Bad Timing" which it intros an MC for Mistake and they are testing the time machine that I plan to use for the book. Now I have another workshop that is asking me to do an exercise of an Uncle Zeb who's a craftsman. Instead of the wood carvings and furniture that others envisioned, just to be unique I started toying with the idea of a futuristic setting and what sort of a craftsman might be then. I came up with spray paint and a Harley by a guy in a wheel chair no less! Even though it was simply a "paragraph" activity, I see an entire story wrapped up in this boy and his Uncle building a motorcycle seventy-five years after such non-green, dangerous machines are deemed obsolete and outlawed. Wouldn't you know it, I've found my "last minute stowaway" MC for Worst Mistake in Time! Not Zeb, but the boy who grew up working alongside his Uncle. I've sketched out a bunch of notes - including the inevitable, fateful joyride of the Harley and Zeb's final instructions to his nephew - "Live!"

Some might say I've gotten distracted - I actually haven't even done that little paragraph that has been asked of me. *Smirk* But rest assured, whether I do or not, and regardless of whether I internalize the workshop lesson, this is bound to be a winner.

Some say that education is the key to the world. I say he always finds a way to learn from everything, will always hold the key to education.

-Renegade

P.S. Besides, it's a good thing I'm so good at tying stuff into my books, because the one short story I wrote that had no connection to anything else, has also prompted 3 out of 3 reviewers to say "This is a nice opening to a novel, so where's the next chapter?"








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