Elaine Smith Writes

Anything She Wants

A challenge

No names, no pack-drill

This is a challenge without consequences.  No prizes, either.  But it’s Silly Saturday, so…..

Take a look at this Monty Python sketch

The challenge, of course, is to develop your own silly walk.  Start small.  Try not to trip over your own feet or fall downstairs or pull a muscle or anything.  I also suggest that, unless you live in a houseful of kids, you work on this project in the privacy of your own room—and, unless you are feeling very brave and devil-may-care—that you leave the results there.

But silliness and the exaggeration that comes with it carries in it somewhere the seed of creativity.  And it’s probably only when we are willing to be silly in public that we, as artists, begin to succeed.

But it’s okay to start small.  And only fair.  After all, you don’t think I’m going to show you my silly walk, do you?

Category: Creativity