Last month at Blissdom, I attended a workshop sponsored by Hallmark. The topic was inspirational writing, and in addition to two card writers, we got to hear from Casey from Moosh in Indy and Stephanie from Adventures in Babywearing.
I heard lots of anecdotes and advice about sharing our most meaningful stories, and then the panelists challenged us with a writing prompt. They asked us to write about couches.
Actually, they first suggested we write about our top ten couches, but then they said we could just pick one if we wanted. It’s been a while since I over-achieved much of anything, but today I’m going to do that prompt one better.
I’m going to list my top ten couches. And then I’ll write about one. Which one? That’s up to you.
Vote in the comments, and the couch that has the most votes by the end of the week will get the starring role in a post next week.
In no particular order:
- Blue flowered couch I grew up with at my parents’ house
- Wicker couch with blue cushions that my mom inherited
- My grandparents’ brown, gold and orange flowered couch
- My other grandparents’ plaid couch that is called a divan
- The bright gold, ridiculously heavy couch I had in my college dorm
- The first couch Mark and I bought – a blue and green plaid one
- The same couch with a red twill slipcover
- My current chocolate brown leather couch
- My parents’ new couch
- Our friends’ dark green couch
I know. That doesn’t tell you much, does it? And there’s no going back. Once you pick one, you can’t go back and read the other chapters to see if they had better endings.
Yeah. I’m harsh like that. A couch blog post reader survey rules dictator.
(Unless I decide to write about the other couches later.)
[Please don’t pick a bad couch.]
{No pressure.}
So, what’ll it be?
This post will be linked to OhAmanda’s Top Ten Tuesday.
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