Sunday, April 3, 2011

The Cornucopia.

You're an odd duck. The eccentric little swimmer, determined to wander from the usual current of the pond. Hey, me too. Somebody's gotta cause all those ghastly fictitious murders, invent the shape-shifters, faeries, halflings, half bloods, whole bloods, vampires, swamp things, alien life forms, seekers, zombies, and tediously throw in a couple of star crossed lovers. Our minds are filled with ideas. Bottomless cornucopias brimming with creativity, often making us the recipients of those blank stares at cocktail parties. The "alrighty thens" as I like to call it. How many times have you explained a glistening little fairy thing to a bunch of paralegals and not gotten the "alrighty then" look, hum? Embrace it. Work with it. Twitch a little if you want to really have some fun with those people. See, they'll never get it. They're the same people who would love to read such inventions and often do. The first in line when the movie comes out. They just don't want to have a conversation about such things, especially, before publication. Just picture Stephanie Myer talking about vegetarian vampires before TWILIGHT was ever even heard of. My husband would have been giving me the ole' nut job by the shrimp cocktail look from across the room in two seconds flat. Totally normal. We, however, are not. I would have been in awe that she had thought of it first. I'm cool with this. Being different is okay with me now. I didn't always feel this way. It took me awhile to grasp that people just don't get what we do. I can't take it personally. Is it okay with you?

13 comments:

  1. Hey TC! Yep, I strive to be different. If I'm too much like someone else I feel all smothered and stuff. lol When I tell my hubby about my new WIP and the plotline and ideas, he just kind of glazes over, but he sees how into it I am.

    Saw you're going to Bermuda. Woo-hoo! How fun. It's a beautiful place. Hubby and I'd sit out on the beach and drink Coronas and eat fish sandwiches every day we were there, and snorkel the rest of the time. This was BC, of course. :)

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  2. I'm too ditsy to usually notice if people get me or not. I amuse myself, that's enough :)


    Wagging Tales - Blog for Writers

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  3. Someone else who either didn't know (like me) or flat out ignored the "skip Sundays" part of the a-z challenge. Okay first of all, whenever I think/hear/see "all righty then" I think of Ace Ventura. :) (which I loved so it's all good!)

    And second, I used to have a problem with being the nut job by the shrimp cocktail, but now that I know a lot of other writers and have discovered we're all the same kind of different, I'm okay with it.

    I love being a cornucopia of knowledge! Very creative use of "c" btw!

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  4. What an abundant post. I agree we are all the same kind of different.:O)

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  5. lol I love this post.

    I get the "alrighty then's" often. Even from my own family. Of the four of us, three write, but I'm the only one that writes fantasy.

    So... yeah. Our ways of thinking about our stories differ.

    :-)

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  6. Great C word! It's taken me awhile to come to terms with the fact that not everyone will get me!

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  7. My husband's just beginning to get me, and we've been married 15 years -- LOL! Fun post! Thanks for the follow, and I look forward to more of your A-Z posts!

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  8. It doesn't bother me I didn't think of veggie vamps first.
    Enjoy visiting others in the Challenge!

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  9. Great post! So often people try to fit in when it's best to be ourselves, unique as we are... and somethings, I think, certain people just won't understand...and that is ok.

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  10. If everyone got me, I'd figure they were fibbing.

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  11. Seriously ... very few people "around" me - get me.

    But, that's okay because the people in my head love me ... well ... until I kill them off.

    bwhahahahaha

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  12. great post. completely explains the look.

    found you through A-Z. i love the quote in your header. one of my favorites from Ever After.

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  13. I've always been a little...quirky. And I'm good with it. After all, when one thinks of a writer, do they bring up the mental image of a sane person?

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