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The Writer’s group I’ve belonged to for the last many years, started up again for the 2017-18 season yesterday afternoon. Some of us don’t see each other throughout the summer so it was wonderful to see, visit and laugh with each other for an afternoon. The main event for our meetings is reading our pre-assigned topic. The topic for September was ‘Locked doors’. My post from last evening, The Goldilocks Effect, was the completed assignment. And then, as usual, our host gives us a writing assignment at the end of our meeting. Yesterday, it came with parameters:
For the character’s name Julia, in ten minutes we had to answer three questions: where was Julia leaving from, where was she going and why. This very short piece, was really short because I was tapping it out on my cell phone!
Here is my response to those questions:
Julia’s Dilemma
Julia just had to get out of there. She wasn’t even supposed to have been away as long as she was. Her aunt, and not her favourite aunt, had demanded her presence. “And bring your calendar. We have a schedule to keep if we’re going to arrange your father’s birthday for next week.” She had finally gotten out of her aunt’s organizing and planning, only being a glorified secretary with her ideas being ignored. Her date, a gorgeous guy she had recently come to know, was waiting for her at the coffee shop two blocks away so she wasn’t worried about how long it would take to get there. Just enough time for her aunt to release her from what she called ‘family duties’!
I wasn’t quick enough or clever enough to work in my word choice for this month - ‘perspective’. However looking at this little bit of writing, I could see how Julia’s perspective and her aunt’s perspective about what was immediately important was considerably different.
“There are no facts, only interpretations.”
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
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