Due to the Insecure Group meeting, I am late with my Sensational Wednesday Haiku! Sorry, Jenn. It's got Flair!
Mandatory flair
To wait upon her tables
Bennigans waitress
Customers demand
She runs ragged to please them
They tip her poorly
Wearily heads home
To get refueled by loved ones
Smothered with kisses.
AND!
Thanks to Julie at Rosewood Pencilbox for putting together the "Oh, the Early Days" blogfest! It runs thru 10/14. It's short and sweet and fun to eat consume the early works of everyone. Here is the documentary of my youthful writing history.
As a kid, I was loud and bossy. So I became a teacher =)
Reading and writing didn't motivate me until much later. I loved to sing and did musicals and stuff. I didn't know I would become a writer, though I did write many things...
I wrote scripts for me and my friends in grade school (we were Charlie's Angels!) And I remember one fun assignment where the teacher asked us to use Personification - I wrote a story about a gumball's journey from machine, to mouth, to street, to stuck on a shoe, to the dump =) In junior high I wrote a series of non-fiction books called "Sign In Please" - surveys of data that got passed around to boys and girls to see who liked who, what and what not. "What's your favorite sport?" "Boys, rate these girls; Girls, rate these boys" I got a lot of 7's (nice friend). And in high school my friend and I were the queens of notes - we were very creative in word and folding. I also found out that BS was an artform I could master and English teachers loved it.How did you get into writing? Join the fest =)
I wish I had time for another blogfest. *sigh*
ReplyDeleteGlad to find another musical performer! Those of us who have turned to writing are so few and far between. I love that you wrote scripts for you and your friends. I wrote short scary stories and skits in elementary that my friends and I intended to collaboratively publish one day. Ah the good old days.
Too cute. Enjoyed the haiku and especially liked that story premise for the gumball's journey.
ReplyDelete"Sign in Please" sounds like a fantastic idea for a YA or MG book :)
ReplyDeleteLike the story about the gumball. I wrote some when I was a teen. Didn't pick it back up again until a few years ago.
ReplyDeleteGreat haiku! :)
ReplyDeleteThat gumball story sounds way cute! What a creative kid you were :)
ReplyDeleteCute!
ReplyDeleteI like that you wrote scripts for your friends! We did that too!
Awesome.
Thanks for sharing this with us!
HMG
I bet you'll find that is a common denominator for most writers; being queens/kings of notes, writing stories (and screenplays!) and all the rest. I still have a lot of the notes my friends and I wrote to each other, and even the skeleton and first few chapters of a book I started writing in high school. Almost 30 years ago now...!
ReplyDeleteA lot of us were waitresses at one point too ;) Great haiku!
crystal, yay for music! and your adventure fest sounds fun!
ReplyDeleteangela, thank you =)
angie, hmm. i will make a note of it! thx!
alex, hmm, gum ball goes to space. your sci-fi -ness put that into my head =) new childrens series!
the ge, thanks!
jeigh, you are sweet!
heather, we were destined for greatness =)
jenn, so true! thanks!
Tara, I love that button!
ReplyDelete"BS was an art form," haha. I relished in that discovery, too. And I think "Sign in Please" sounds like so much fun.
I'm so glad you've joined the fun! Thank you, again. :)
What a fun fest and I love the haiku's - as usual. I should write more of them. They are fun. I think I must go check out this fest. If my kids will allow my 1 more minute to do so. lol
ReplyDeleteLove the haiku. God bless waitresses and waiters--it's a thankless, difficult job.
ReplyDeleteI'm glad that poor Bennigan's waitress has a loving family to go home to.
ReplyDeleteIt's funny to look back and see where the first inklings we were writers came from. I'm too embarrassed to share mine.
The second haiku appeals to me. I'm in the Art/Humanities, work my butt 10 hours on Sundays and I'm still penniless.
ReplyDeleteP.S. I love your blog background. Halloween here we come! :-)
Love the haiku! Have a great weekend.
ReplyDeleteMy friends and I used to write classic Star Trek fanfic. We didn't call it that. I wish I still had some of that early stuff. I also wrote a play once for my junior high school class using our haunted house spelling words. Teacher loved it so much she printed them all out and we read it as a class. lol Everyone died.
ReplyDeleteLove the Haiku! :)
ReplyDeleteLovely haiku. And I particularly liked "mandatory flair."
ReplyDeleteTara, I love the haiku, it definitely has flair. :)
ReplyDeleteAlso, your Gumball journey story sounds a bit sticky..haha. My girlfriend and I wrote lots of notes too, we finally got smart and came up with nicknames, so people wouldn't know who we were if they found our notes somehow. That was probably the most writing I ever did.