About Oops
This is a scene I wrote on June 10, 2014, as a just-for-fun exercise to read at the June meeting of the Rome Area Writers group, a delightful monthly gathering of writers I discovered last year in the Rome, Georgia area. I attended a few meetings late last year when I was still looking for a job, and after I was working so far away and so many hours, it became impractical to attend. Since I've been out of work several weeks for health reasons (much to my frustration and stress at times), when this month's meeting rolled around, I was able to attend, much to my joy.
Each month, there is a writing prompt, which is an inducement (one hopes) to write, however seriously or trivially. The writing prompt for this month was one simple word, a name: "Josephine". Initially, I was like "whaaaat"? What am I supposed to do with that? But, as so often happens, it wasn't so much a matter of me doing anything with it as just shutting up long enough to hear that inner voice, what some might call a "muse", and follow the path where it would lead. So it was, last Tuesday night, I was driving down to my sister's house out in the country in Silver Creek, rolled the name "Josephine" around my thoughts for a second, and an image came, followed by others. The next day, at the library, in the quiet of a study room listening to the "Deep Space One" station on SomaFM, I started writing, and this is what resulted after about 20 minutes.
It was just a creative exercise to get me writing, so I wasn't too concerned with editing, and so I present it here in basically the rough form it took originally. I was able to share it with some family and friends, and I read it at the meeting last night. It seemed to be well-received, so, as I occasionally do, I thought I'd post it here and share it with whomever cares to read it. I hope you enjoy it.
Until next time, love and peace to everyone from Rome, Georgia.
Allan Mills
Rome, Georgia
June 13, 2014
Each month, there is a writing prompt, which is an inducement (one hopes) to write, however seriously or trivially. The writing prompt for this month was one simple word, a name: "Josephine". Initially, I was like "whaaaat"? What am I supposed to do with that? But, as so often happens, it wasn't so much a matter of me doing anything with it as just shutting up long enough to hear that inner voice, what some might call a "muse", and follow the path where it would lead. So it was, last Tuesday night, I was driving down to my sister's house out in the country in Silver Creek, rolled the name "Josephine" around my thoughts for a second, and an image came, followed by others. The next day, at the library, in the quiet of a study room listening to the "Deep Space One" station on SomaFM, I started writing, and this is what resulted after about 20 minutes.
It was just a creative exercise to get me writing, so I wasn't too concerned with editing, and so I present it here in basically the rough form it took originally. I was able to share it with some family and friends, and I read it at the meeting last night. It seemed to be well-received, so, as I occasionally do, I thought I'd post it here and share it with whomever cares to read it. I hope you enjoy it.
Until next time, love and peace to everyone from Rome, Georgia.
Allan Mills
Rome, Georgia
June 13, 2014