Kendra Bonnett--Getting Read #4
Men and women often run in different directions. With this sentence, we were that much closer to
cracking the case.
My detectives, armed with notepads, scoured the house looking for key evidence. They flipped through worn telephone books, ignoring the fact that more than one page had apparently been ripped out. They studied the ads in popular magazines; yes there were clues to be collected there. They scanned the shelves of cookbooks before selecting one that looked promising. Chinese, Japanese, Italian, Mexican, Vietnamese cookbooks, no classic French—suspicious but not germane to the case. The detectives were after the words, phrases and sentences that would solve the mystery.
I worked at headquarters. My job was to make sense of it all. I unlocked the secrets by creating sentences from the random word clues. Today I might have called myself a forensic editor. But back then, the detectives were my little sister and brother. Too young to read, they could copy letters and words, which was good practice for their handwriting. They loved playing sleuth. For me, the fun was in solving puzzles by trying to make sentences out of the random words and phrases they collected. It was a great game.
With few children in our neighborhood, we invented a lot of our own entertainment. Now as I look back on the variety of word games, play schools, and community newsletters I created, I wonder if these were the telltale clues to my future career as a writer and editor.
Did you ever stop to consider your own creativity? And what it says about you? If you're curious, I've found a way for you to measure your own creativity. CREAX has a free test. It’s fun and takes no more than 10 minutes to complete. The average score, according to CREAX, is 62.44; I tested at 92.15. You can follow this link to the test. How do you stack up?
Kendra
I took the creativity test... very interesting! Thanks for the link!
Posted by: Lee Ambrose | February 22, 2009 at 06:29 PM