HEY YOU GUYS!
If you came here expecting a 100 word flash fiction, you might be disappointed. While I realize I’m breaking my own rule by linking something other than a short story I thought this post would be of interest to Friday Fictioneers. It may not be a short story, but as you can see there is a short facilitator.
Friday, November 15, 2013 at Ye Olde English Inn in Branson, MO, the entertainment capitol of the Midwest eight of the, sometimes, over one hundred writers met face to face and person person. 
From left to right: Beth Carter, Rochelle Wisoff-Fields, Madison Woods, Janet Webb, Karen Nelson, Russell Gayer, Jan Morrill and Kent Bonham.
Some of you may remember K.D. McCrite who wrote for Friday Fictioneers until success as an author has whisked her from our midst. She was the speaker for our morning session. She left us without excuses. 😉
LIGHTS! CAMERA! ACTION!
Rochelle Wisoff-Fields-Addicted to Purple 
Oh that looks like fun!
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It was great fun. I only wish the whole gang could’ve been there.
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That was great, darlings! So nice to see some of you!
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Wish everyone could’ve been there.
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This is so great! I LOVE the video! Well done, Kent! What a treat to see other Fictioneers in the flesh. You are all talented writers and wonderful people. Thank you for sharing your gift and your heart with the writing community.
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Awww, t’wern’t nuthin’, ma’am.
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Methinks the gentleman doth protest too much. Great seeing the clips and savor the memories. Thanks for swinging by, Karen. 😀
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That was great. It was good to hear your voice after reading your words for over a year. If you ever have another gathering/workshop and I’m nearby I’d love to join you.
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I would love to do that, David. Who knows? Never say never, right?
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Loved, loved, loved the video–loved hearing your voices! 😉 That looked like so much fun. I’m glad you posted about the meet-up and the video.
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Glad you loved it Maggie. We had a great time, although there wasn’t enough of it. I’d love to be able to have a Friday Fictioneers conference. Kent Bonham is the man behind the camera and video editing.
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It was so great to see and hear some of my favorite people. Rochelle you are my little pixie. Janet you are most definitely my earth mother. I want to come to the next gathering. We’ll have the most fun. I promise I won’t get TOO racy. Giggle.
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Dear Renee,
We’ll have to see what we can arrange. 😉 OWL’s a great group. I like pixie better than midget. Although at 5 foot nothing I don’t qualify for the latter no matter what some might think.
Shalom,
Rochelle
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You are not a midget at all. You ARE a pixie.
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I agree. Pixie is PERFECT! Really is. 😀
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Wink, wink!
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I always enjoy hearing the voices behind the pictures of people. I like to see how close I am with what I think they sound like. I was spot on with Rochelle and Janet. The other not so much. 😉
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Dear Jackie,
It was fun for me to put voices with faces. I met Madison last year at OWL, so face to face was even better this time.
Shalom,
Rochelle
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A great video! Hey all! Good to put voices to names and faces that come across my comments and my reading!
Jim
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Dear Jim,
I felt the same way about being there. Russell’s just as funny in person as he is in print. Possibly funnier.
Shalom,
Rochelle
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Fantastic! And well worth the unlawful linkup 😉 You’ll have to organise a get-together for all 100ish of us next year!
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Dear Jen,
If only I could. There are so many of us all over the globe, 😉
Shalom,
Rochelle
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Kent, you did a great job on this. Do you mind if I share it on my blog? I have people asking about the weekend.
janet
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Although I look as if I have an eye patch. 🙂
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No, I don’t mind at all. Have at!
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Totally cool!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
DJ
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great fun – all it needed was zombies 🙂
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They were there, Bill. Just camera shy. 😉 Thanks for letting Janet come.
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thanks – we keep her on a long leash 🙂
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I think we should see if we can organize a FF get-together next year. Let’s meet on Sandra’s boat in France. 🙂
janet
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I’m for that!
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Me too.
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Hi Rochelle – Thanks for this. I saw it when it was posted on FB as well. So nice to see everybody. Wish I had been there.
Lora
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Hi Lora,
There’s another OWL conference in February. Of course it’s a little far from NYC but it’s still in the continental US. 😉 That would be fun.
Shalom,
Rochelle
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You all were having so much fun, I’m happy for you.
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Dear Indira,
We did have a good time. There are some of these folks I only see 3 times a year in person. Janet I met for the first time. Wouldn’t it be wonderful if there was some way we could make it a global gathering?
Shalom,
Rochelle
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How brilliant is that? Glad you all enjoyed meeting each other
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A grand time was had by all, Al. Well I did, anyway. 😉
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Excellent 🙂 I have met a fictioneer before (AnElephant) and he is fun. I think the majority of them are.
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That’s awesome, Al. I think we have a great group of people involved in Friday Fictioneers and I love to hear about any of us getting meet one another. I hope that made sense. 😉
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It made perfect sense 🙂 I only just realised I hadn’t done my own Photo Fiction challenge for this week and it ends in 2 hours lol. How do you do yours? Do you think of a story before you post the photo?
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Take heart, Al. It actually ends in three days. True confession. While I don’t have a story when I choose a photo, I do write my story ahead of time for the sake of my own sanity. However I give myself the same time frame in which to look at the picture, conceptualize and write in three days or less. The same way I did things when Madison posted the photos, I just couldn’t do it earlier than everyone else. 😉
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I meant my Sunday Photo Fiction one. With your one, I already know what I am going to do (a follow up to a previous one featuring Gods at dinner) it’s just getting the words in order 😉
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At any rate my “secret’s” out. 😉
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Shhhh … We’ll keep it between us 😉
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I loved the video–Kent’s a treasure!!! Also loved the factoid about the origin of Russell’s “unique” weekly intros. Thank you for sharing!
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I confess, Jan. When I see that Russell has posted, I’ll skip everyone else’s just to find out who I am each week. And yes, Kent’s a keeper and he knows how to use a camera. i wish more of us could assemble in one place.
Shalom,
Rochelle
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That was a totally charming little capsule of your visit and wonderful that you made it available to the rest of us in our far flung corners of the world.
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Happy to share, Lindaura. Makes us more of a community, doesn’t it?
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Well done, Kent. It was a fun night. Hopefully, we’ll have another round-up before too long.
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Thank-YOU, Russell, for being there and not being too camera shy. 😉 I had a blast and was totally pumped that night. Maybe we can Skype with some of the “unreachables” next time. The technology is there, why not, right? I’ll be there as the man with the camera.
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What a lovely gathering. Thanks for the video Colby et al. Lovely to ‘meet’ some of you! I wish I’d been there! Come to England! And I’m only just bigger than you Rochelle at 5’2 (and three quarter)” but I’ve never considered myself to be ‘short’, strangely enough, even if I do have trouble getting up on the machines in the gym. 🙂
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We could meet in England, too, after France…or before. 🙂
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What’s happening in France?
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Sandra and her husband are barging there, although if they hear we’re coming, they’ll probably hide. 🙂
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Yes, I know Sandra sails. Who are the we who are coming? If it’s a writing event, I could also attend. I’m a hop skip and a jump from France, lived there and speak the lingo.
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She actually lives on a barge, but that’s beside the point. The “we” would be any FF who could make it. It’s just a dream idea right now, but you never know. Next time I get to Europe, I hope to meet some of you European-based FF. We may be over next July, catching a stage of the Tour de France and visiting relatives.
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Well, I hope your relatives live near me in Kent, S E England. It would be great to meet! Ann
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They live near Dijon, France, but that would might be do-able. I’d love to meet.
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I’d like to come, too! I’d come via Spain since I have friends out there. We could meet in the Pyrenees! There’s a terrific restaurant near a castle there on the border. I ate my first snails there. Delicious!
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Well a trip up the Pyrenees isn’t on my agenda for next year, but you never know. Been up the Alps sort of unexpectedly once. And as a vegetarian of many years I’d give the snails a miss, just watch you disapprovingly while you crunched your way through them! 🙂
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Hey, whatever turns you on … 😉
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I thought I was talking to Janet, Kent!? You’re safe!
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Very cool. Made me smile 🙂
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Glad you’re smiling, Dawn.
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Thanks for posting, lovely to see you all in the flesh as it were.
Next, a trip to Europe at least!!! I was going to suggest meeting halfway, but that’s probably somewhere in the middle of the ocean.
Must have been great to meet up, so envious…
Dee
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Trying to, Dee. Rochelle told me to take her with me. I told her I’d smuggle her in a shoebox.
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Let’s charter a cruise ship!
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That actually sounds like a cool idea. The USS Dramamine.
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this is so cool. glad you guys had fun. great to hear your voices, thanks for the video. 🙂
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That’s a great video!! Love seeing you guys and hearing your voices.
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Glad you enjoyed it, Kim.
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Ow, this is so so lovely! I do miss the FFs and I know it’s high time I got back to the fold! 🙂
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I agree, Celestine. I’ve missed you, too.
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Wow how lucky can you get. I think I need to win the lottery or get a part time job to save my pennies so I can get to the next met-up!!
Any Friday Fictioneers local to central PA??? It would be fun to have some kind of a push-pin map that we could all tack too saying where we are from. For past, present and future folks!
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Hi Jules,
I think Rich Voza and Sharon Wolfgang are in the area. Janet Webb makes it out there from time to time since her daughter’s in school there. Don’t know how central they are, though.
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PA is a big state. No worries. Family keeps me a tad busy at the moment. 😉
Thanks.
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Ah – I saw this first 🙂
Cheers, Jules
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First of all, Rochelle, it is OK to break your own rules… especially for something like this! Great to see and even more to hear our friends. I thought I was hearing Judd from Big Brother, then realized it was Russell. Would have loved to have been an Ozarkie and meet everyone.
We will just have to have a FF meet at Doug’s sometime!
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Hi Ted,
I thought of all the regulars while we were there and how much I’d like to meet everyone in person. I agree about meeting at Doug’s. 😉
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Now we just have to talk Doug into it. I say, let’s make it Maui so it’s a vacation for him too.
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I’m so glad you posted this, it looks like it was great fun! I’d love to meet fellow bloggers in real life some day.
I just checked back on my blog and today is only my 3 month Fictioneers anniversary, but even in this short time I’ve “met” so many great writers (and great people too)!
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Wonderful.. a meeting in Stockholm in the spring??
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I wouldn’t be adverse to the idea, Björn. 😉
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Me neither.
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That would be fun.
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What a fun weekend!
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Indeed it was Dawn. 😉
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What a great idea. Sorry I wasn’t close enough to attend.
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I wish everyone could’ve attended, Phyllis. 😉
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What fun that would be.
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Hey You Guys!
I am so jealous. What a fantastic post. Sure looks like you were having a good time. I wish I could have joined you IRL. Thanks, Rochelle for all you do to keep this group inspired. It has truly meant a great deal to me to be a part of it.
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Dear Honie,
Comment like these and stellar writing such as yours are two of the things that keep my passion for this alive. I wish you could’ve been there, too. Maybe one day we’ll have a get together that’s just Friday Fictioneers.
Shalom,
Rochelle
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It looks like a lot of fun was had by all. Thanks for sharing with the rest of us!
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That looks like such fun. If anyone’s serious about coming to the UK and meeting up next year, there’s the Winchester Writers Conference in Winchester, June 20th – 22nd 2014. Winchester is about an hour south of London and where I live!
There isn’t much info about this year’s conference up yet, but here’s the info about last year: http://www.writersconference.co.uk/index.htm
It would be lovely to meet some fellow Friday Fictioneers.
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Thanks for such a personal look! I know have some voices to go with the names.
Scott
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