Donovan

Donovan

Once upon a time in a really far away land filled with musical wonders, lived a boy and a girl. This land was big; it had magical creatures and clear blue skies. The most popular instrument was the guitar, something that was really loud. He liked to play all night long and his girlfriend really liked to listen. He would play many songs. He played: sad songs, glad songs, silly songs, angry songs and meaningful songs. He played every day, and the girlfriend would gladly listening to the music. He wanted to become a song writer. The girlfriend was his only audience. Then, the girl thought of a wonderful thing. She wanted him to play a concert, however he did not like it. Even though he would get publicity, he was a victim of stage fright. The girlfriend tried to make him overcome the fear, but it was difficult, so they stayed near their magical land. (This is a sentence fragment)

After a while their hair grew long, they could only eat organic foods, and they loved rock and roll. The longer they stayed at the magical land, the crazier they became. But still he would just play the guitar for his girlfriend. Finally after ten years, the seventies ended. The spell was broken. The eighties arrived. It was such a different world, with McDonald’s and malls, something they had never experienced before. They were running out of money and they desperately needed some cash. They could not decide what to do. Playing a concert would earn publicity and possibly the income of money they needed, but not with the stage fright. They finally decided that they had to go find jobs.

They were broke and needed money. The girlfriend went out to find a job. She came to the den that night without a job, every place was completely full, and without any money as well. She continued to look for jobs, but it was tough. Their only thing was to play for the public. They started out on the side of the road near the closest city. They made roughly five dollars a day, barely enough money for dinner. They were about to give up, but they kept on going using all of their energy and power. “Here let me try to play this!” the girlfriend requested.

As the guitar strummed away she began to sing like an incredible angel. It was like magic. The next day they went out on the street and began to jam. They drew a crowd of a thousand people, the biggest crowd in the city’s long history. Everyone in the crowd even began singing along. People were throwing endless amounts of money into the guitar case, which made them play even better. They ended the day with five thousand dollars, a lot more than they had made up to that point combined. When the couple realized how much they had made, they were finally glad. For the next week they went on the side of the street to play and sing. By the end of the week they made nine thousand dollars. Even though they had made so much money they realized they needed to make more cash. The girlfriend came up with a brilliant tactic. They could start giving some guitar lessons. They had everything they needed a guitar, music books, picks, notes and amazing talent. All they needed were students. They began to make flyers, hanging them on every street corner. Soon enough, people started recognizing them and their new guitar lessons would be worth the while. They started signing kids up for the lessons. The kids were so excited as well as them. They never were sure that being guitar teachers was that difficult. They had to face many obstacles with teaching lessons although it did bring in some extra cash. Eventually they decided just to sing, after all that brought in about five times the amount of money that the guitar lessons did. Six months later… they had finally reached the life that they had been dreaming of all along. They signed with a prestigious record company and were now world famous celebrities. Their incredible story was quite inspirational, going from having practically no money to being world famous, popular multi millionaires, it made headlines everywhere. Who knew that this life would become like this by a simple guitar. It just shows everybody to take what you have and use it.