Assignment – Jon Wescombe

Another brilliant piece from a GUNNAS WRITING MASTERCLASS WRITER.

Well here I am, the last excercise of the day. Sitting here trying to think of something to write about. All the this random stuff is bouncing around in my head trying to make it’s presence felt. Which one do I choose?

Gee these dessert plates in front of me smell delicious. A residual scent of strawberry lingers tantalising, distracting the senses and what little attention span I do possess.

So it’s quite a novel experience being permitted, nay encouraged to let my mind wander. When this happened prior experience taught that this would normally be met with retribution.

So here’s my mind wandering around without adult supervision searching for something appropriately witty and clever when in reality my topic is about the fact that I’m struggling to find a topic. In an unexpected case of cosmic serendipity the video presentation playing in the background features a young writer undergoing the exact same problem. A story needs a Beginning, Middle and hopefully a satisfying Ending. This kindred spirit also suffers from procrastination and has used the same tricks to distract herself from the task at hand. Also the “conversations ” her dog had with her were at  least politer than the scornful disdain that is imagined in my direction from my Superior Siamese. 

The most amazing thing I learnt from this Class is that all the random crap I put myself through is perfectly normal.

So it was a very happy chappy hooting homeward down the highway rocking on to a peculiar mix of Happy Hardcore, Nostalgic 80’s , Trippy Trance with a little Alaniss Morrissette angst thrown in to keep it real. Little brain happily ticking away processing all the new concepts and tools that he can now apply to the frantic scribbling that escapes his brain on random occasions. 

So happily armed with his new Mantras of Sit Down Shut Up and Write, a dash of Suck it Up Princess. Also permission to wear a Tiara and pearls whilst creating my masterpieces makes it an unexpected adventure. I now get to happily share the incoherent ramblings of my brain with an unsuspecting but hopefully receptive audience using a new found sense of purpose and discipline. Yay me!!!! 

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