Creative Writing Assignment
Son gave me the gift of a writing course. This is an online course and I have never really taken any sort of writing course. Never. I am 75 and this course is attempting to teach an old dog new tricks. Here is the last session's subject. Description of one's self. The result is and ASSIGNMENT: use imagery to describe your personal state of being. The example given was a description written by Frank Kafka. " A picture of my existence... would show a useless wooden stake covered in snow... stuck loosely at a slant in the ground in a ploughed field on the edge of a vast open plain on a dark winter night." A picture of my existence... would show a dusty whirlwind moving across the cornfield ready for harvest... filled with all it touched... surrounded by sunshine... revolutions slowing down toward its dissipation... ending as quickly as it began. I read this to Hubby. He has been at my side for over 55 years counting the time of 'courting'. He said it