Pen
I know I have said it many times before, but it always seems to come up in conversations with the younger writers here on Wattpad.
"Can someone give me an idea. I don't know what to write."
We are only limited by our own imagination.
I sit her now looking at a simple ball point pen.
The little clip on the plastic cover is broken off.
I wonder what I was thinking while I fiddled with that plastic cover?
I wonder what idea came to me so suddenly when i accidentally snapped it off?
The pen's ink is nearly half gone.
What wondrous ideas did I have to use that much ink?
Did I act on those ideas and create something?
There is a mark on the pen.
Looks like a cat's bite.
Did Storm try to go off with this pen at some time?
Did Eva find this pen somewhere other than the computer room and return it to the desk, knowing I would be looking for it?
Where did I buy that pen?
I have at least a half dozen more like it.
Why did I choose this one?
Why did I choose this colour pen; a very light blue?
Why is the pen on my left side when I am right handed?
If this pen could talk, what could it tell me?
Would it tell me about how it was created?
The forming of a plastic tube.
The insertion of a cylinder, filled with ink.
The addition of the metal balled tip and the little cap on the top and finally the plastic cover, with the little clip.
The clip that I accidentally broke off.
All of this from simply looking at a 25 cent plastic light blue coloured pen, with a broken clip.
Now ask me again about ideas for your writing.
Just look around you.
April 4, 2014.
