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RE: We-Write #12: October Partner Week + Last Week's Winners Announced!
I'd like to try my hand at this. Anyone want to write with me? I'm going to start a piece and hope one of y'all continues it. @wwwiebe? @janton? @free-reign? PHC double stuffs.
If @wwwiebe or @janton or @free-reign? already said yes, so be it.
I'll give them (what, one more day?) before jumping at this one.
Where is the first half... not posted? (Is that how it works?)
No dear they have not, so it's all yourn. Can't wait to see what you do with this wacky thing. lol
https://steempeak.com/@owasco/phantom
I regret that it wasn't until I'd posted it that I thought of a solution to the sunflowers:
Goats!!!!
Now that would have kept the tone humorous.
https://steemit.com/wewrite/@carolkean/phantom-we-write-12-with-owasco
HAHAHAHA! Of course! Goats! That has something to do with why she hates sunflowers, goats traumatized her in her childhood by eating the sunflowers that had sprung up around some beloved pet's grave. Or one of her favorite goats was served to her on a plate with a sunflower border. Or she stepped in goat dung, fell into a stand of sunflowers while the goat gave her one of his quizzical (but not grumpy) looks which she interpreted as derision.
Thank you so much for writing with me!
Thank you for inviting me!
Actually, I was thinking she would be happy to see the goats get into the sunflowers and munch every petal, because "Elsie hated sunflowers." Who could hate goats? :)
Maybe we can revise, polish and post it again under another title...?
Or I can revise what I already posted.
Or just leave it alone....
But I love your ideas - especially PTSD after stepping in goat dung!
It reminds me of visiting my sister in Germany when our kids were little. Her youngest stepped in dog doo in the street and started crying. The middle sister showed no sympathy and said not to make such a big deal out of it. The mom (my own sister) vehemently chastised the middle sister for her lack of compassion. Me, I was on the middle sister's side. So ya step in dog poop. First World Problem. So what! You find something to wipe it off with and you keep walking. Crying about it, and having your mother enable you for it, meh, it's a miracle I managed to keep my opinions to myself that night.
I see a middle child who was easy to push around because they tend not to make big deals out of things, and so are often blamed. I'm on her side too, but for different reasons, I see the family dynamic. Where were you in sibling placement? I'm the oldest of five. Talk about performance anxiety. Wait, were we even talking about performance anxiety? Oh yes, back to me
I AM SO EXCITED ABOUT WRITING WITH YOU., and a little bit nervous about it too.
I'm also checking out now, I have been at this computer for far too long today, so let;s chat in a private box outside a public chat room tomorrow. xo
Oh my goodness YES! I accept! That would be wonderful for me. Let's make it a story.
I'm dm-ing you on discord, so I'm afraid you will have to go there. I finally have some idea of what discord IS and it comes in handy sometimes.
You mean the goat scene as an ending, like a vision once dead herself?
Heading to be now, not Discord, sorry, but if you're revising anyway, take the goats and do with them what you will! I just thought "Elsie hates sunflowers. Goats should eat the sunflowers for her, and tourists will stop bringing them."
I'm #4 of 5 sisters, btw, and I was just thinking I know why the middle child says "It's not fair" all the time. Parents lighten up when they get to the youngest child. They've learned "Pick your battles" and all that. They don't freak out like they used to over spilled milk. The oldest child doesn't seem as upset as the middle child though about NOTHING in life being FAIR. The oldest had Mom and Dad's attention, until the next one came along, but the middle child never gets their undivided attention. Ever. And so, every president has been a first-born child, most CEOs, and so on.... I hope those stats are wrong, but I'm living down to the expectations of a nearly middle #4 of 5