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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.
PaulGuncheon
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How I Described My Super Brilliant Writing to What’s-Her-Name On Our Super Good First Date.

“You read much?

“No?

“Well, I write different kinds of things. I really don’t like to talk about it, but seeing as it’s you…

“I started writing back in high school. That's where I won my first Newberry prize for “Hey, You are Not My Feet”. It was my first best seller and was made into a TV movie for a Peoria UHF station.

“In college, I studied under um… Samuel Clemens (he liked to be called “Sammy”) and Charles Dickens (him I called “Uncle Chuck”). They were so impressed by my super amazing writing skills they insisted I join the faculty. Of course I was soon made the head of the English Department. Three years later I graduated with a Phd in Excellent Writing. I was only 14 years old, y’know.

“Yeah, you can call me “Doctor” if you want… I don’t insist on it, ’cause that’s not the kind of guy I am.

“After I got that Phd my writer career really took off.

“You ever read “Get off My Shovel”? Well, that won me my first Booker award.

"How ’bout the sequel, “Hey, You’re Still on My Shovel”? No? That one got turned into a play. It ran on Broadway and got me a whole bunch of Tony awards.

“Now Hollywood is calling but I’m not sure they’d be a good fit for me. I’m not a sellout y’know? They said they want to make one of my best sellers, “Hey, You Put That Back in Your Nose Right This Very Minute” into a major motion picture starring some super big name A-list actors.

“’Course they’re offering me buckets of money, but like I said, I’m not a sellout. I don’t want to cheapen my work. I put too much of my heart and soul into it.

“Currently? I’m working on my magnum opus. It’s a three volume memoir about my life entitled, “Hey, Hand Me That Spatula”.

“It’s sure to draw people together and finally bring world peace.

“More calamari?”

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