Charly Writes: Follow-Up and I Need You!

Wednesday, December 14, 2011

First things first, a lot of folks wrote about the ridiculousness of the If I Was A Poor Black Kid article. I wanted to highlight a few of the responses (via Feministing and Feministe) for those of you who are interested.

A Muscular Empathy

An Ode to a 'Poor Black Kid' I Never Knew: How Forbes Gets Poverty Wrong

If I Were A White, Male Middle Aged Forbes Columnist...

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Second things second: I need your help.

My writing has hit a major lame low. I wrote a page yesterday. I spent more time contemplating taking a nap than I actually spent writing. And I am not a napper, folks.

So, I am going to do a bake-off. I am going to write as much as possible of a play starting at 9am tomorrow morning for 24 hours. This is how my other play started. Let's see if the magic can happen again.

How can you help? I need ingredients. I need FIVE (but will take as many as I get!!) things that must be included in the play I write. It can be a line, a song, an image, an action, etc. Basically anything.

So I need five of you to suggest things and actually leave a comment below with your suggestion. My writing depends on you. So you should feel guilty if you don't post anything.

Thanks friends!

9 comments:

Laura SchaposnikDecember 14, 2011 at 5:34 PM
I always liked when my father sang this in the supermarket in Argentina:

Les bourgeois c'est comme les cochons, Plus ça devient vieux plus ça devient bête ...

xxx Lau
About CharlyDecember 14, 2011 at 5:45 PM
Merci beaucoup, Lau!
Sam @ The Second LunchDecember 14, 2011 at 5:56 PM
I was in the liquor store last week when someone dropped a bottle of maraschino cherries; the red liquid exploded everywhere, and we all stood around staring.
allisongrubbsDecember 14, 2011 at 6:15 PM
biological warfare
About CharlyDecember 14, 2011 at 6:16 PM
Ahh! Amazing! Thanks Sam and Allison!
pabloDecember 14, 2011 at 8:08 PM
OBJECTS
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T-Rex arms. Somewhere, on something/someone.
or
A plan/scheme that requires a baby porcupine.

LANGUAGE
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A scene (or maybe the whole play!)

Set in the land without the letter 'b'.
or
Mandatory Fucking Cursing.

DIALOGUE
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"I think we can do better than this."
or
"This tastes like paper."

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Feel free to use absolutely none of these :-p
About CharlyDecember 14, 2011 at 8:26 PM
You are such an overachiever, Paul.
Thanks :)
Rachel RDecember 14, 2011 at 10:46 PM
a few ideas a little more on the traditional side (ish). take em or leave em. but let me read it! off the top of my buzzing brain:

Lines: "12 years and this is all you have to show for it?"

3 yo mama jokes (JUST KIDDING)

Plot point: someone lies about their identity

Character: a child with an uncanny gift (which of course they all have, teehee)

Image: blowing bubbles off an abandoned bridge

Action: spitting
About CharlyDecember 15, 2011 at 11:07 AM
Thanks lovely! I am starting at noon instead of 9am. So we'll see how it goes!