Welcome to Fandango’s One-Word Challenge (aka, FOWC). I will be posting each day’s word just after midnight Pacific Time (U.S.).
Today’s word is “create.”
Write a post using that word. It can be prose, poetry, fiction, non-fiction. It can be any length. It can be just a picture or a drawing if you want. No holds barred, so to speak.
Once you are done, tag your post with #FOWC and create a pingback to this post if you are on WordPress. Please check to confirm that your pingback is there. If not, please manually add your link in the comments.
And be sure to read the posts of other bloggers who respond to this prompt. Show them some love.
When I was a kid I used to love to draw. I’d draw Disney characters like Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck. I’d draw characters from the daily funny pages, like Dick Tracy, Li’l Abner, and Charlie Brown. I’d draw comic book characters like Superman, Batman, and Spiderman. I could even take a look at a photo of a person and draw a reasonable likeness of that person.
I was really good at drawing and I drew so much that I earned the nickname “Doodles” because I was always doodling in my school notebooks.
However, there was a limitation to my skills as a drawer, a doodle, and a wannabe artist. I wasn’t very creative. Oh, I could see something and close to perfectly replicate whatever it was that I was copying. But to come up with something original? Fuhgeddboudit.
In the ninth grade, I had an art teacher who took a special interest in me and told me that he thought I had some real potential as an artist. But by the end of the school year, he took me aside and said, “Fandango, you are very good at drawing and you can copy art with the best of them. But so can a Xerox machine. Unfortunately, your art lacks imagination and creativity. Best of luck, kid.”
I was disappointed that my livelihood as an artist came to an abrupt end. However, I discovered that while I lacked creativity in my artistic skills, I apparently had some redeeming skills when it came to creative writing. My tenth-grade English teacher read my first creative writing assignment and I was flabbergasted when he called me up to the front of the class one afternoon and had me read my assignment aloud.
He later told me that I demonstrated a lot of creativity and imagination in my creative writing assignments and encouraged me to keep it up. And thanks to this English teacher, who saw this creative spark in my writing, I grew up to be a best-selling author.
Okay, I may have taken some creative license there, as I’m not a best-selling author. In fact, despite several genuine attempts to write a bestseller, I have not even come close.
But you know what? I’m fine with that. Every day I create posts that I publish on my blog and I have a bunch of readers from all around the globe who seem to enjoy my writing skills and appreciate my creativity.
So here’s to all of you for keeping me motivated to create and publish post on my blog every day.
For her weekly Blogging Insights prompts, Dr. Tanya provides us with a quote about blogging or writing and asks us to express our opinion about said quote.
This week’s quote seems to be a meme.
I agree with Tanya when she wrote, “If you were to turn the definition of blogging into a mathematical expression, it would probably look like the above quote.” Blogging is all of those things: sharing, connecting, creating, and inspiring.
That said, I’d change the order of the items listed in the quote. The first component of blogging is to create content. Next is to share what you’ve created with other bloggers in order to connect with them, which may inspire them to like the content you’ve created, to potentially comment on what you’ve posted, and perhaps even for them to create their own content in response.
So my equation would be:
To blog = To create + To share + To connect + To inspire
Facts, Fictions & Fantasies 