Photo prompt @ Jan Wayne Fields
Every time I glimpse the stuff it pains me.
I quiver with resignation of the writing dream.
Tucked away in a corner, dreams put aside. Hopes doused.
Mountains of ‘how to write’ books.
Stashes of notebooks. Such cute covers, always another one.
The many quality pens presented to ‘the author’ as hopeful gifts. Perhaps this would be the golden pen, the one that writes the bestseller.
The detritus of dreams. Corkboard, thumb tacks, paperclips. The laminator!!!
Collecting all this and not doing the work.
Reality bites. No matter how much stationery I collect, the words won’t write themselves. (98 words)
Friday fictioneers is a weekly challenge set by Rochelle Wisoff Fields to write a story in response to a photo prompt – in 100 words or less. You can find other stories here.
Good tribute to life’s moments of frustration, procrastination, and disappointment
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Nicely written with a whole lot of truth mixed in. The mountain of “how to write” books certainly does ring true for me. Now, I need to put into place what I’ve learned from those books, and that’s the truly difficult part. Oh, I love the laminator!!
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😁 Making everything pretty and neat … must lead to great writing. Correct?
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There seems to be some truth in that 🤔
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Sometimes it’s better just to sit down and try to write… anything at all!
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Gee, we seem to have been using the same muse this time! I really like your take on this.
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Organize and plan and organize and plan… I, too, am great at this. It’s the sitting down to write I am trying to overcome this year. Well wrote. Enjoyed!
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Struck a chord with a few of us. 🙂
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Alas, this sounds all too familiar! Wasted, indeed! And no magic elves to do the writing while I lie sleeping, or dreaming!
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One for your writer readers, there. I think we all have that stash of notebooks, literal or metaphorical. Good luck filling them!
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A whole tray of distractions that create procrastination. I know, how can you throw them out?
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I wonder, does procrastination and writer go together. Or, is that just the slack ones?
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I think if you have a really good story it takes over. I think commitment to the task is the first hurdle.
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Oh, this one hurts! Terminal writer’s block going on for me right now.
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This is a pretty good start – things can only get better!
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This is truth!! But the hope lives on – maybe the next one will be the one!
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Oh, yeah, pretty much captured my yesterday as I sat and stared at the bottom shelf stacked with notebooks… a paragraph here, a page there… nothing complete. Sitting there on the floor, thinking… I need to write… but, what???? Great writing you’ve shown us here! 🙂 ❤
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Don’t worrry. All the words are already there in the dictionary. You’ve seen them all before. Now all you have to do is put them together in a new order
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Indeed. … eureka, you’ve got it😁
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Well Trish, it seems that 98 of them did!
Or was that you?
We all have dry spells, but there is a deluge ahead!
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The stationery addiction… Collectables for writers 😀. For some reason, many writers think they need these things when they don’t. I’m guilty!
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I love notebooks!!!
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Dear Trish,
Perfect last line. The words don’t write themselves. I’m going through something of a dry spell myself these days. Hoping my latest novel will get picked up soon. At any rate, well written piece that goes to the heart of this writer.
Shalom,
Rochelle
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Oh you hit the nail right on the head there. If the number of writing accessories made me a writer I’d have made a fortune and probably won a Pulitzer by now. Well done.
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He he!
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