Prompt: What is my superpower?
I feel like we've done this challenge before, and I suspect I mentioned that I've never broken a bone (and listen up, O ye Gods and Goddesses, that was not a challenge!) but that I felt like my real superpower was explaining technical computer stuff in ordinary-person English. I might have mentioned that troubleshooting technology could also qualify.
All of which is still valid!
I was trying to think of whether there's anything else I'd add to that, but what I'm coming up with is, well...
Writing.
Okay, but writing as a superpower? Well might you ask.
Yes. Writing as a superpower. Writing as an act of active imagination, writing as a way of using that imagination to keep myself sane here in the collapse of the Republic in 2025, writing as a way of thinking -- and working -- through my issues, maybe even writing as a way of helping other people. It's fucking magic, my friends, undervalued and under-appreciated though it often is.
Writing is a superpower.
(This post is part of the Wednesday Weekly Blogging Challenge. You can find links to other writers' answers over at Long and Short Reviews.)
Writing is definitely a superpower.
ReplyDeleteAnd, yes, LASR repeated some of the prompts this year, including this one.
Yeah, I've been trying not to repeat my answers from previous years.
DeleteAll great superpowers, Michael. Writing definitely qualifies. Thanks for sharing.
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DeleteAll excellent superpowers, Michael, with writing being the most powerful. I didn't even think of writing. But it's such a gift to be able to bring something into the world that never existed before. That's what I love most about writing, anyway.
ReplyDeleteYes, it's... that act of creation.
DeleteI don't think of *my* writing as a superpower. Yours may be one. Some people's writing has certainly been one...many reading list authors come to mind!
ReplyDeleteOh, Google...I'm not anonymous, I'm Pris cilla King.
DeleteGoogle has ISSUES. But it's still the easiest platform for me to work on, and I've been here for so long I don't want to move. But... I don't know. Anything that lets you share a whole new world with other people feels like magic to me.
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