Last night we held our scheduled meeting of WAG, the Writer’s Alliance of Georgia.
Beverly served as our lovely and gracious hostess, which means she set the evening’s agenda.
She challenged us to think under pressure. A hat was passed containing ten slips of paper.
Each slip had both a number and the name of a celebrity or other famous figure in history. We were given ten minutes to think of something to write in the voice of the name on the slip.
I drew Henry VIII.
What could I think of to say as the famous king of England in ten minutes or less?
I gently edited the work to make it slightly more readable, but resisted the temptation to add any new lines except one I really wanted to add has been separated from the original work by parentheses.
This was the best I could do in the time allotted…
It’s not easy being a monarch.
My life’s ambition was to be a florist. (I’m particularly fond of peonies.)
It’s not easy holding the power of life and death over people.
It gets rather tedious after a while. I need to think of a new line besides “Off with his head!”
One doesn’t really get a choice in these matters. I inherited my throne.
To be sure, holding the crown does have its advantages.
When the church gave me problems about my wanting a divorce for a lack of an heir, I started my own.
If I wanted a new wife, I simply got rid of the old one.
It seems that I’ve got a thing for women named Catherine. I’m so fond of them, only one has had her head chopped off to date.
I rather liked Jane Seymour, but I never trusted her after that business with James Bond.
If my wife gave me a problem, I got a new one. Most often, the old one met Ed, my servant with the sharp axe.
Beheading saves alimony.
Mine are pretty wacky. Psychics, ghosts, NDEs and other phenomena are not part of church doctrine anywhere I have attended, but I believe these anomalies offer tangential evidence of the supernatural.
Therefore, I research them because they interest me and conform to my vision of the Big Picture.
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