I am thankful to be a part of this awesome global family called Friday Fictioneers.
Writers:
- Depending on your preference, leave your blog link in the comment section or use the linkz tool (or both ;)). My story follows for those who’d rather not read it before writing their own.
- Please make sure your link works. There were a couple last week that didn’t. If you find that you’ve made an error you can delete by clicking the little red ‘x’ that should appear under your icon. Then re-enter your URL. (If there’s no red x email me at Runtshell@aol.com. I can delete the wrong link for you).
- If your blog requires multiple steps for visitors to leave comments, see if you can simplify it. If you can disable CAPTCHA –that wavy line of unreadable letters and numbers– please for the sake of our writerly nerves, disable it. It’s frustrating to have to leave a DNA sample, your blood type and your shoe size just to make a comment. (So I exaggerate. But hopefully you get the picture).
- Challenge yourself to keep stories to 100 words. (There’s no penalty for going over or under).
- Make note in your blog if you’d prefer not to have constructive criticism.
- Be kind in your comments to others.
- ABOVE ALL–HAVE FUN!
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Copyright-Joyce Johnson
*Note-I know some view this link tool as something of a pain, but the reality is that you’ll garner more reads and comments if you leave your link here. Click the blue guy and follow the instructions. Please make sure you’ve entered your link correctly.
get the InLinkz code
And now…
Following a wrestling match…
Is my story.
FACE TO FACE
“It was a dark and stormy night.”
“Seriously?” Tad peered over his book.
“It worked for Snoopy.” Jaycee slammed her finger against the backspace key and glared at the professor’s photo prompt. “I’m blank.”
“It’s only a hundred words. Write what you know.”
“I know nothing.”
“Ha! You’ve got plenty floating around in that pea brain of yours.”
“Like alphabet soup.”
“Stir it.”
Who knew a simple creative writing class would be filled with so many trapdoors? The sculpted face in the picture mocked her with its sideways grin.
Fingers trembling she typed, “The Me Nobody Wants to Know.”
Rochelle Wisoff-Fields-Addicted to Purple 
Awesome prompt. Clueless.
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Makes two of us, Ted. And I chose it.
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Nice prompt! Enjoyed it!
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This requires some thought… If clueless go for poetry 😉
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I loved the picture. Thank you. I will link tomorrow when I post it.
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i posted my story here https://mariwells.wordpress.com/2012/11/23/assylum-friday-fictoneers-112312/
My avatar didn’t come up in your Linky place, but it works. :shrugs:
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I don’t know what happened there, Mari. Like you say, the link works and that’s the main thing. 😉
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this week’s photo is sooo cool ^^ love the way you think . i’ll be sure to post the link to my entry in a while. xx
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here’s my try ^^ thanks http://theeclecticeccentricshopaholic.wordpress.com/2012/11/22/100-words-story-challenge-iii/
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Hello Great Leader,
Just a technical note:
There is no little red x under my icon (Not that I want to delete it!)
I suspect either it only appears for the admin, or you need to configure something for us to see it.
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I’ve looked in the Linkz dashboard, Abraham and have done what I’m supposed to. Why it doesn’t show up on your end is beyond me.
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We will just have to be careful, then 🙂
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I don’t know why but my link number 14 is not working properly. Two people have been able to comment, but maybe they are followers anyway, and are approaching it from a different route. So I’ve added it again at number 17 and it works OK. There doesn’t seem to be a red cross anywhere so I can delete the erroneous one. So sorry about this folks. I’m normally so careful not to use the ‘admin’ version of the link, and I’m sure I clicked on the ‘published’ link this morning, but maybe I’m having a brainstorm.
Is there anything you can do Rochelle? Otherwise I’ll try to get number 14 removed via the administrator of the inlinkz blog which I think is possible.
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I can delete if from my end, Sandra. But I don’t understand what’s going on. I’ve checked the box that’s supposed to allow people on the list to delete their own links. Madison, if you’re out there….
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Done, Sandra,
But I don’t understand. I rechecked the dashboard. Most peculiar.
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Perhaps it doesn’t work retrospectively on submissions made prior to whatever amendment you’ve made. Anyway it’s all working now… thanks Rochelle
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Frankly, Sandra, I’m bamboozled because I’d already checked that box before. Glad it’s working now. These techno-thingies baffle me. 😉
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Yo tambien!
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LOL, Just now out here, but if you clicked the box, I don’t know either!
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Hi…new here, but I wanted to try your 100 words…made it at 99. Not good with links and the above discussion was scary to me. 🙂 But I think it worked. Enjoyed the Snoopy inspiration in your own story!
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Hi Rochelle,
We traveled similar brain paths on this one, both coming up with self-reflexive stories. Loved the sense of frustration you inserted here. Writing can be trying. Great story!
Shalom,
Ron
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Lovely Rochelle; this wasn’t an easy prompt but I liked your take on it.
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hey, about leaving comments on non-wordpress pages. when someone is on blogspot, sometimes i have pull down the arrow, select a wordpress ID, and then sometimes it says that my ID can’t be verified or something even though i know i typed it in correctly. i’ve learned that sometimes i have to click “publish” two or three times and then it’s accepted. FYI.
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Since I started on blogspot I have a Google account. So when I comment on Blogspot blog, all i have to do is sign in.
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That’s what I do, too, Rich. I opened a new Blogger blog just so that when I comment using my google id, it directs them eventually to my WP blog. But it’s a crumb trail and not direct. It just saves the frustration of trying to comment with a WP login on Blogger.
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Rochelle, for having nothing to write about, you sure came up with a great story. Loved it!
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Here’s mine this week… http://tedstrutz.com/2012/11/22/friday-fictioneers-muse/ … I see MacIlroy is right behind me…
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Dear Rochelle,
Charles Schultz and Snoopy and Edward Bulwer-Lytton would be proud of you. How you managed to mix all the ingredients and come up with such a delightful story is beyond me. i wish I could be there to see the creative process first hand. Stir it, indeed. You did, and look what happened. Even Julia Child would be chortling in her (and your) soup.
Aloha,
Doug
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Dear Doug,
All I can say is thank you for your warm compliments. And the process is half the fun…did I say fun?
Thanks for your friendship.
Shalom,
Rochelle
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That’s a unique approach to the prompt. Nice one.
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You forgot the black negligee …
This was fun! And great selection of photo, too.
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They’re very similar stories, eh? I promise I wasn’t looking over Ron’s shoulder.
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HAHAHAHAHAHA! We need to have a contest with the theme of writer’s block to see how many black negligees come out!
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Enjoyed that! Gives you room to guess.
Scott
Mine: http://kindredspirit23.wordpress.com/2012/11/22/friday-fictioneers-7/
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You avoided writing a story in a classy way by writing a story about it. Very nice. 🙂
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Cleverly done
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Funny dialogue… reminds me a bit of Agatha Christie’s Tommy and Tuppence, though I haven’t spent time with them in ages. Also, Jaycee’s title is most intriguing. Left me wanting to read more.
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The writer’s life captured perfectly!
Here’s mine: http://unexpectedpaths.com/friday-fictioneers/bete-noire/
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Dear Rochelle,
You started with nothing and made a very delightful and filling soup. Well done. When I saw the finger and scrunched face, I wanted to take the booger pickin’ angle, but chickened out. Maybe Perry or Ron will have the courage and intestinal fortitude for the task.
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you did what i have told students when they couldn’t think of anything to write for a writing prompt in class. just write something, write about how you can’t think of anything, and if you “babble” long enough, something good will come out.
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Thanks, Rich. This prompt really had me flummoxed.
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so it was self-inflicted flummoxing.
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I know, right? Sad but true.
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Beautiful, Rochelle, and SO TRUE! This is the kind of thing I worry about–what my little stories say about me. Excellent dialogue–you make the 100 words do so much. I have to say, though, that the reference to “pea brain” followed by “alphabet soup” made me think of pea soup, and stirring that wouldn’t inspire too much creativity. 😉 Thanks so much for your leadership!
I’m here: http://wrasselings.blogspot.com/2012/11/friday-fictioneers-press-conference.html
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Thank you, Cindy. Your comment’s making me grin. I suppose there could be peas in the alphabet soup. The dialogue was born out of a conversation concerning this prompt. So you could say that the pea brain and soup references did inspire my creativity. It’s amazing the little comments that can ignite an idea, isn’t it?
It’s an honor, privilege and passionate delight to facilitate this group.
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Writing is therapy and yet for others writing will put them into therapy. “The me nobody wants to know” is half the reason I write. Well put Rochelle.
Tom
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Thanks for noticing her title, Tom. This prompt had me ready to go back into therapy. And it was my choice. What can I say?
Shalom,
Rochelle
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Loved it. Sometimes it can be so hard to come up with something.
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And this was definitely one of those time, Elaine. 😉
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Well I like the prompt, and I also liked your anti-prompt story. If it takes an anti-prompt attitude to get us writing, then it works. 🙂 (I think Ron had the same issue)
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Ron and I did seem to be flip sides of the same coin this week. I liked the picture but when push came to shove, I couldn’t push or shove an idea into or out of my head. The face just laughed and laughed at me.
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Awwww — funny and kinda poignant, too.
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So excited about this photo. All critiques welcomed.
http://rendezvouswithrenee.com/2012/11/23/friday-fictioneers-the-hand-that-points-the-way/
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this one was the hardest prompt I’ve done so far! Makes me use the grey matter! 🙂 Good take on the photo with your story!
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A nice response, Rochelle – and I like the hint at honesty at the end there (and the idea of being afraid of putting it down on paper). Plus, I think we’ve all been there so it’s perfect for this group haha.
-Brian (Here’s Mine: http://pinionpost.com/2012/11/23/a-question-of-genre/)
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Thanks for the insightful comment, Brian. Going to read yours now.
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Yes, this was exactly what I felt at first on this. But this idea was a great one.
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That’s the delightful challenge, Björn–to write oneself out of the corner.
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I just realized that I hadn’t read your story. Glad I did, Rochelle, I loved the start, but what she typed at the end… that was powerful, and made me think.
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Thanks, Ted. I was beginning to think you were ignoring me. 😉 I’ve noted that being the hostess is kind of double edged sword.
In any case I’m glad you caught the ending. I wasn’t lying about the writers block, though. This prompt knocked me for a loop. Then one of those late night conversations switched on the light bulb.
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I would never ignore you.
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🙂
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Aha! See? You did come up with one after all, like I said. Its great, works and is cute. Even Dicky liked it. Of course he had to communicate that to me from his eternal resting place. lol
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you had me at the snoopy reference! That first sentence is always the hardest, 5 cents please.
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I actually really like this picture. It just gives me the creeps. Like the sideways grin…I guess I’m fond of creepy! It’s still a creative piece, Rochelle!
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Aw, even your character had trouble with this prompt. Good job, though. I should have thought of that.
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I wondered where you were going, but you finally arrived. I would have liked a couple of more words about “The Me Nobody Wants to Know,” the mocking face, and/or the trembling fingers, but maybe another time, who knows? Nice development of the idea.
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Thanks, Perry. As P.T. Barnum said, “Always leave them wanting more.”
I really had a wrestling match with this prompt.
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I like the way Tad advises her to “write what you know” and she responds by writing ““The Me Nobody Wants to Know”–good twist.
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A great and creative take on the prompt. Rochelle. 🙂
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Great photo, and nice story.
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omg, I love that ending. It’s so honest, and I like that breakthrough for the character.
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