White Tulips & Wedding Cake by Jonathan Solomon

Author:Jonathan Solomon [Solomon, Jonathan]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2017-08-25T22:00:00+00:00

“Earth calling to Ollie,” Jane said as she tried to gain Ollie’s attention.

Ollie snapped to attention.

“Why did you say no? This could have been your chance,” said Jane exasperatedly.

“I’m just not ready,” said Ollie and started serving the next customer.

Chapter 22

Saturday, 2 June – 9.55 am

Rosie stepped out of her red Hyundai and found herself surrounded by university students who were laughing with friends, or walking alone on their way to the library. Rosie looked down at her phone as she checked the address for her writing workshop. She crossed City Road and was standing on Eastern Avenue and saw that she had a couple of buildings to navigate her way through. She then continued walking, holding onto her satchel bag. She made her way through the quadrangle and soon found the correct building. Rosie walked up the stairs of the campus building and saw a sign leading the way to the workshop, “Writing for Writers with Writer’s Block”.

She held onto her satchel bag, which held a few of her own journals to show the workshop instructor, and walked into the room.

“Hello, I’m the instructor, Zinnia. You’re here for the writing workshop?”

“Yes, my name is Rosie.”

“Welcome, Rosie, so you’re experiencing writer’s block,” asked Zinnia.

“Oh yes, I used to love writing. I even brought my journals to show you,” said Rosie motioning to her satchel bag. “I got married and before you know it, I got divorced. I’m just hoping to find the creativity again. I don’t know where it went.”

“You’ve come to the right place, Rosie. Please sit anywhere in the classroom and we’ll start shortly,” said Zinnia.

Rosie smiled at the several students already settled in at their desks. Rosie found a spare desk and placed her satchel bag down on the ground. Rosie took out a small pencil case and a notepad. Several more people entered the room and Zinnia marked their names off the attendance sheet. Soon, Zinnia went to close the door and faced the class.

“Welcome to this workshop everyone! Today we will hopefully unlock your writing potential. This topic is close to my heart as I started out as an author in my 30s and had written several books but then I found myself unable to write a word down in a new creative project. And it stayed like that for almost twenty years,” said Zinnia.

Rosie looked around the group and saw that they were a mixture of men and women in their fifties and sixties. Rosie appeared to be the youngest in the group. They all attentively followed Zinnia’s words.

“The reason I found that I could no longer write was that I was paralysed by personal events that happened to me. These personal events, which included illness and family circumstances, really sapped the life out of me. Writing as a process demands undistracted focus,” continued Zinnia.

Rosie was feeling Zinnia’s words resonate within herself.

“So I will share with you my secrets on how I learnt to overcome this paralysis. I started to finally write and succeeded in writing novels once again.

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