Writer's Workshop: Kind of Stumped

Well guess what? It's Thursday once again and that means that it is time for Writer's Workshop. I really, really like this. If you have not checked out Mama Kat, you really should. I find myself really looking forward to Thursdays to see what the prompts are (they come out on Wednesday) and to see what people come up with to write about.

I thought that this week was kind of a challenging. The prompts are really weird and off the wall but they did get me thinking. I really liked the Shaggy and Batgirl conversation in the elevator. I was thinking that I would ask Jeff and he could write a very funny post on that. And everyone would laugh and laugh and just love it. When I asked him, all excited, he just said, "I don't know. Shaggy is kinda a stoner so he would just ask Batgirl if she wanted some weed." Well, thats not funny and not what I wanted. Thanks for nothing. On to plan B.

The next one that spiked my interest was the one where you tell about when you disguised yourself. I could tell about the time I told a guy that my name was Regina and I was a princess from France on my way to marry a Chinese prince to save the world from world war 3. I even had a fake French accent and everything.But that is a really long story and I don't know, Its just weird. Next.

The last one that got me thinking was the question, What did you do before the Internet? That is such a loaded question. Really what did we do with out e-mail? Without all the information right at our finger tips? I do have to say this, I personally watched a lot more TV. But what about at work? What did we do before e-mail? How did people function? I guess they had to go and actually talk to each other either by picking up the phone or by actually having a face to face conversation. Go figure! There was also a lot more letter writing. I remember having pen pals as a kid. We would meet friends at camp and keep in touch by writing letter, with paper and stamps. Crazy. To get information, you would actually have to go to the library, open a book and look up stuff on microfiche. I remember having to lug all kinds of books home to write a research report. Oh my aching back.

I wonder, my kids will probably never know this; going to a book for information. Looking up an address in the phone book. They will just sit down in front of the computer and the world will be at their finger tips. Amazing.

How did we survive back in those olden days? Just think, our kids will never know a world with out the Internet. Just like they won't know cassette tapes, gas under $3.00 and cell phones that don't text message or take photos. Now thats crazy.