be more creative

I’ve completed this fairly well. Having a blog (briefly) helped with this, as has trying to write on a regular basis here at 43T. Being forced to write a haiku every Friday doesn’t hurt, either . . .

I haven’t given this much thought in a LONG time. In elementary school I was one of the better writers in terms of “creative writing,” and even when I started high school I still tried to write one or two-page short stories that, if I may toot my own horn here, were pretty damn funny.

I wanted to write for Mad Magazine when I was a kid, but I doubted that I’d have the patience or creativity to do so. That hit the wayside, as did most of my creative writing as I progressed through high school and college. Truth be told, the last really “creative” writing I did was my half-assed attempts to keep journals my freshman and junior years of college, and then a few pornographic stories I wrote for my ex-girlfriend, and later, for my wife.

This, and my new blog (the obligatory plug of course for the Super-Happy Fun Blog, which can be found along with free balloons for the kids at http://wiggum224.blogspot.com ), is the most creative “creative writing” I’ve done in a long time. It’s been good to get the juices going again, and perhaps this will lead to me being more creative in real-life as well.