A play in one act

Characters:

•The Meanspirited Internal Editor (I.E.)

• Me, Myself, & I (Me)

Setting: Inside Me’s mind, just about any day, at any time

Scene One: New Year’s Day

Me: I want to make craft videos.

IE: Why? No one would watch them.

Me: I could create a YouTube channel!

IE: Are you really going to embarrass yourself by putting homemade videos out on the World Wide Web?

Me: I’m going to try regardless. It’s time I followed my own advice that I preached in the classroom…be a lifelong learner and accept new challenges no matter what age you are.

IE: Whatever…

Me: (two months later): Ha! I now have 54 subscribers and one of my videos has 449 views. More than a someone is watching, and I’m having fun!

IE: hmmm…

Scene 2: Sometime in February

Me: I’m going to join the Slice of Life Story Challenge and write every single day in March about something other than a card I made.

IE: Really? Ha! You know those other slicers are better writers.

Me: I’m not doing it to show off; I need motivation to follow through on my writing.

Two weeks in:

IE: See, I told you that you couldn’t do it. You’ve spent the whole day cleaning and baking and haven’t thought of a thing worth other people’s time to read.

Me: Just watch me. I’ll do what I had my students do: I’ll write about how hard it is to write until I come up with something to say.

IE: You’d actually publish that on your blog? Oh, my…

Me: Go Away! I’ve discovered these other slicers are people just like me who value written words and enjoy the camaraderie of fellow writers.

IE: crickets…