Today I received this as a potential random question from Blogger: "Your bow is not broken but you've run out of arrows. How can you fake being a bard?"
I thought it an unusual question, though catered to my interests and education. A bard is, of course, a lyric poet, but usually refers to Shakespeare (thank you, Dr. Wadia's class!). The most famous writer of all time, who wrote "38 plays and 154 sonnets" and much more. His plays have been translated into every major living language and are performed more often than those of any other playwright". He's someone I can't help but admire long after his departure.
At first, I thought of something coy as an answer to this silly, but critical thinking question.You could dress like Shakespeare, but he always looked like a dog with a cone on his head. I also thought of silly answers about poets brooding over their "slings and arrows" or "taking arms" against their troubles.
But the real answer is that you can't fake being a writer, or any other artist. You have to have some measure of success, but success is a relative term. Are you a success as a writer when you're published? Paid for your work? Followed by a lot of readers? When you meet your 2010 resolution of writing every day for a certain amount of time? Maybe all of these are true, maybe none of them are true, but I think it's important for all aspiring artists to have a goal set.
I watched a movie called The Devil and Daniel Webster on Netflix last week. In the movie, Baldwin sells his soul to the devil in order to be successful as an artist, but it didn't turn out in the way he thought. So, for all you artists, define what success is for you. Is it seeing your book on a shelf? Selling 100,000 copies? Just having the joy that comes with writing?
Decide for yourself and keep going!
Decide for yourself and keep going!
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List of other weird questions blogger asks:
1. You've written a hit musical! How will you avoid having fame go to your head?
2. What spells can you cast with magic markers?
3. The hair from your last haircut ... what would it say about your new style?
4. If you were a cannibal, what would you wear to dinner?
5. How is an ankle unlike a consequence?
6. Your bow is not broken but you've run out of arrows. How can you fake being a bard?
7. Come up with some possible band names for your group that features a washboard and a Styrofoam tuba.
8. Please come up with a more appropriate name for the ringtoe:
9. You're in the grocery store with a broken cart. How will you ever be that hungry?
10. What's the best time you've ever had licking stamps?
11. You're trapped in a well with a goat and a slinky. Describe how you will escape.
12. What's the most amount of sand you've ever had in your swimming trunks?
13. Describe the sound of a moist waffle falling onto a hot griddle.
14. How tall would you be if you had never cut your fingernails?
15. You're going to the moon! What did you forget to pack?
16. What did you dream when you ate a spider while sleeping?
17. You have a red jar of cedar chips. Why do moths miss the forest?
18. Which is more important to you and why: flexibility or expandability?
19. Whoops! Your tongue is now a magnet. Whatever will you use for silverware?
20. Lionesses have no manes. How do they know when they've grown up?
21. When your science teacher smashed a frozen rose with a hammer, did you warm the petals to bring them back to life?
22. Your hand has been replaced by a rubber stamp. What does it say?
23. Which is easier to make a model airplane out of and why: a banana peel or a wet sock?
24. Create a tagline for a new line of plastic bedsheets.
25. Sponges and tongues are frequently misspelled. Is it because both are thirsty?
26. Never mind the turtle. Don't you think you're sure to win?
27. Foxes are clever and tigers are cunning. So, what's your cat's safety school?
28. Try making up the rules to a game where you tie knots in a yo-yo string just to see if you can get them out:
29. The children are waiting! Please tell them the story about the bald frog with the wig:
30. Your superpower is that you smell like dandelions whenever someone lies. How will you maintain your secret identity?
31. You've just inherited a manufacturing plant that specializes in plastics. What are you going to make?
32. You moved the pot before the coffee stopped brewing. Do you smell the mountains or the burro?
33. The wicked backspin caught you off guard. How will you play it off without losing your footing?
34. What would you name your ballet inspired by the sight of children leaping through a garden sprinkler?
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