Balls

Kendall, glad to see you noticed my story. I have an idea for an unretired (pro)'fessor like yourself. Do you teach writing, literature, etc.? If so, could you give a writing assignment to a class and it be a contest, results decided by the students in the class, with the three winning pieces then being submitted to Vocal. By the class. Together--everybody seeing the process you yourself are using so dynamically? Knowing you a bit already, I would guess you may already be doing this. BTW, this little piece about balls is amusing, thought-provoking, clever. As in "How can I get my writing noticed on Vocal? If nobody reads my stuff, how can I grow as a writer? How could this idea be developed into something more...???" Garrison Keillor said once on Prairie Home Companion, that as a beginning writer evaluating his own work, he would play doctor and wrap the stethoscope around his own neck and start pumping that rubber balloon! He said it a lot better. His first stuff sucked, in other words. My first thing was a play I wrote at age 12 for my sixth-grade class. Next, at age 14, I wrote a "Dear George" letter to George Reed for my 18-year-old older sister who really needed to shake off a determined suitor. Writers gonna write. You just can't stop us. Do you have time to read the poems I've been dropping on the site? I know you are busy but hey--one-minute reads!