A couple months ago, a writer commented to me about the difficulty of finding story ideas.
I sent back a replay about finding story ideas anywhere, including random thoughts. I gave a long line of ideas as they as the flew out of my thoughts culminating with "a baby cheetah appears on your porch and asks for a sandwich."
In the early days of WriteOn Joliet, my former co-leader started offering an optional writing assignment a month to get people's creativity flowing, a tradition we've kept. So for our August meeting, I suggested this silly topic.
One member wrote hers early and misunderstood the topic. She substituted "monkey" for "cheetah."
Another member also wrote his early and posted it on the WriteOn Joliet Facebook page.
One of my sons, who doesn't belong to the group, loved the idea, may write a piece, and now wants a baby cheetah.
So even if you don't like to write, if you'd like a hilarious time listening to the pieces (while drinking some excellent coffee from the Book and Bean Cafe...and sandwiches!), pop into our Aug. 16 meeting.
We'll be there from 6 to 8:30 p.m. at the Joliet Public Library, 3395 Black Road in Joliet.
I don't have a stock photo of a baby cheetah to post here. But I can promise you plenty of gifs are out there (I've been sending them to my son).
But here's an illustration of a sandwich.
Because you know, if you give a writer a sandwich, he/she's gonna want a baby cheetah to go with it.
Sorry. Had to. ;)
Illustration by Christopher Gleason for "Staked!"
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