Inspiration hit me this morning as I watched twin girls get out of their car. Definitely identical twins. Then my friends told me we had seven sets of twins in Kindergarten at our school.
Of course that reminded me of my childhood. In fourth grade we had at least five sets of twins. So a discussion of twins came up in between cars and excited children.
I casually made the comment, "Being a twin wasn't easy." You know the typical dressing alike, thinking alike stuff. Then KABOOM! Inspiration struck and I said, "I think I'll write a children's book called Being a Twin Isn't Easy.
So during my plan time and lunch time I wrote non-stop and pretty much have the basic first draft. I suppose I'll publish it on Blurb.com. Now I'm just trying to coerce my sister into illustrating it for me.
Here is a short excerpt from the book-to-be.
I tell you. It's not easy being a twin. Like the time we went to Pop's Drugstore and
two elderly silver-haired women gawked and swooned, "Oh, how cute. .. TWINS!... and
you look just alike."
Well, I'll tell you right now I didn't feel cute. I felt like a freak. How could I not?
All I had to do was look to my right and see me twice. Yikes! That's downright scary.
Hey, I just had an idea for a new horror movie called, "The Clones." Of course
this movie would have a good twin (me) and an evil twin (her) and the good twin would destroy
the evil twin by peeling her face back and showing a green warty monster. I tell you. It's not
easy being a twin.
So now you'll have to wait for the rest although I was so inspired I couldn't keep it from a few of my friends. Thank you for being excellent listeners.
The story is basically about one of these twins.
Well, enough. Inspiration hit. I produced. Now I'm going to zone out with my DeMille book.
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