This is the THIRD caption in a row that deals with STEAK! I must be HUNGRY for MEAT!
Well, you know what the hell I mean! Anyway, I made this caption for KarenSue, and it was a bit of a slog. As I wrote in the original post on the Haven, I wanted to use this picture but wasn't sure what to do with it .. then came up with the concept .. and wasn't sure how to finish it .. until I finally did!
This is a testament to working on the fly without a net. Luckily it all came together in the end and wrapped itself up nicely I think. Sometimes you just have to write something down .. anything really. Then from there, you can try to pick up a path that sounds reasonable and fill in the details.
Once I have the caption setting in place, with the photo on the background, my brain has been looking at it enough that some semblance of a plot has made its way to my finger tips. Even if it is just a phrasing or a sentence I want one of the characters to say. Here it was that she was eating a reasonable portion to keep being shapely. From there, an eating contest seemed like a good contrast to my original thought. Then I could just go from one of the extremes to the other and set it up so it would be interesting in caption form.
Even then, I had no idea how to really wrap it up, getting from the end of the contest to the actual picture I was using to tell the story and only having that last paragraph space to finish it up. Then, the inspiration hit me .. Reggie was in a eating contest, now Karen Sue has to be entering a different sort of contest .. that way it will be a complete circle. Ahhh, a beauty contest! EUREKA! Perhaps it's a bit too rushed, but this IS a caption, not a short story!
So, luckily, as I said above, it all wrapped itself up nicely, even though I had no idea if it would when I actually started it! Tell me what you think in the comments! Was I able to get the most out of this photo? What would you have done with the source picture?
I cannot find a good version of Steak Knife by the Angry Samoans on Youtube! So, I'll just go with a classic song that most people haven't heard, and the guy who disappeared after someone found out who he really was, or was that the actual reason? I'm not sure but I miss Dr. Steel!