Rhizome Post #1 | Dany Owens

Rhizome Post #1 Dany Owens

You probably could do nothing better today than read the post Stranger Than Wal-Mart: Plot Chelsea Campbell

This post is probably a mixture of creativity, personal experience and feverish nightmares. Nonetheless, it's brilliant! It's not fake, or overly dramatic or even forced, like some passages I found turned out to be. I found it to be genuine, funny and perhaps even realistic.
I might have been slightly biased as I read this post. After all, I'd been in high school with the writer and knew her pretty well. We'd been in two theatrical productions together and could probably still converse rationally at this very moment. Her writing style, however, really surprised me. She was blunt and real while remaining characteristically circumspect. The innate humor of this piece was what the deciding factor was. It simply wasn't fit to waste away in the bowels of the blog forever. It needed a rebirth, and I was just the one to revive it.
When others read my writings, I can only hope to get a similar response from them as I had with this post. I felt lightbulbs turn on, lightning flashed and I was inspired. Beyond that, I laughed. I once heard this thought expressed thusly "The true test of comedy is that it shall awaken thoughtful laughter." Thoughtful laughter is something every writer can only hope will befall their reader. In this post, Chelsea Campbell succeeded in her quest. Thoughtfully, I laughed.