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Challenge of the Week
Alright, you brilliant beasts. To kick off the first $25 Weekly Challenge, we're keeping it easy and exact. Suuuure..... Most of us have been in this spot, asked the question, so we'll frame a setting. Here goes. You're on a first date with a person you met online. There's attraction there, but you're still trying to figure out if the chemistry is physical AND mental. The person across the table asks you what kind of writing you do, and when you give them a genre, they say, in one way or another, "Describe your writing to me." This week's challenge is to answer that question here. The winner will be decided by likes on this one.
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WhiteWolf
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My Writing

The guy sitting in front of me had that dirty blonde hair that was messy and tousled. He had those piercing hazel eyes that could stop time and entrance you.

"I didn't know you liked to write," I say after his proclamation of love for writing and poetry. "I like writing, too." He props his elbows up on the table. His expression was kind, and he looked like he wanted hear my version of a proclamation of love.

The restaurant they were at, Ivy Vines, was a rather fancy restaurant, but with a more edgy feel to it. It had sleek chairs, delicious food, and lights strung everywhere. Darin, the date, said it was really good a few days ago.

We matched on a dating app, and we had been talking for hours, non-stop.

"Really?" He raises in eyebrow. "What kind of writing do you do?"

"Fiction. Sometimes romance. Kind of along those lines," I reply.

Darin smiles, his lips turning almost pinker. "Well," he says. "Describe your writing for me." My mouth presses into a line. Brows knit. "Please? For me?"

I laughed. "Okay, okay." It took a few moments to figure out what to say, but after I opened my mouth, the words rolled off my tongue. "My writing is almost like a dream, and a nightmare. I write a lot about mental health, because it was one of my close friends real life nightmares. And, it's important for people to learn about.

"Mental health is something very real. Something that a lot of people experience at one point in their life. It's important for others to know how people feel, but sometimes it can comfort those struggling to hear something that they relate to, that they understand.

"I write romances that I would want, based on people who have been nice to me in the past. Once upon a time, there was this boy. He meant a lot to me, but he abandoned me and never spoke to me again. When I write about love and all the romances, I think about him, just how much I loved him, and just how much I hurt after him.

"The fiction is just my personal choice. I love reading YA fiction, and it's really fun to world and character build. I pull ideas from my favorite books, and intertwine and twist them until they become something new, something for me. Something I can write about.

"All it takes it just one spark, and I can write for a long time. It's hard to keep that flame alive, but if you nurture it, an entire book can come out from the flames. And if it does die, a better version can come from the ashes.

"Writing can sometimes seem like an escape, but also as a way to communicate and reach others who are feeling, living, dreaming just like me."

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