The Snowflake Chronicles

Thoughts on Responses

3 Nur 163 B.E. – June 6 – 7, 2006 A.D.

My Thoughts on the Responses to The Exquisite Corpse

After posting the leading entry on June 5, I decided I’d make an entry in The Snowflake Chronicles about the responses to The Exquisite Corpse. Not sure why I decided to do this, maybe it’s just another attempt at procrastinating, while I’m writing this I’m not doing something else. I could also be that I want to get my thoughts straight on how I feel about the responses, now I’m psychoanalyzing. Anyway here I go.

I read several thought provoking responses, some of them weren’t nice responses, but they were thought provoking none the less. Now there was a time when a less than glowing response would have sent me into the fetal position, but I’m beyond that. I’ve been beyond that reaction for aeons now. When I started back to college I took a psychology course, the instructor in that course required the student’s to use themselves as examples in some of the assignments. Anyway, when I get upset at something someone says I ask myself: “Snow, why are you upset?” The answer to this question is usually something that happened in my childhood. The thing is, I can’t take pleasure in a good sulk anymore without psychoanalyzing myself.

Included in one of the responses was a reference to “right brained” something or other. Until I read that, I though I was left brained, I mean I’m right handed and the left side of the brain controls the right side of the body, so naturally I assumed I was left brained. It’s really nice to know that I’m right brained.

Another response was a short story about a road trip across Australia. In the story, a group of guys and boa were driving across Queensland toward Kakadu National Park. On the way they met a woman who had hit a Koala, the guys put the wounded Koala in a cage and were going to take it to the national park. I enjoyed reading this story and despite the fact that there was a death (not the Koala) I laughter at parts of the story.

Several responses were poems; I always like reading poems especially by other people. There were some collaborative poetry written in response to this prompt; I especially enjoy collaborative efforts in writing poems. Another poem was titles from the respondent’s port. I enjoyed reading all the poems.

I finished reading the responses to The Exquisite Corpse. I liked reading all the responses, because they made me think. All the responses show a great deal of creativity, which is not surprising since this is writing.com. Another intriguing thing about the responses was what they revealed. This contest is an addictive and enjoyable experience.