I’m on a roll! Here’s another 100-word story to a photo prompt from Rochelle Wisoff-Fields and her Friday Fictioneers. Quick and easy, folks. This one is for writers:
Cherie looked happily at the little clutch of supplies stuffed into the corner of her “desk”. Never mind that it was a shelf in the laundry room. Yes, she’d gone a little crazy, buying pens and things. But now she could start her new career as a novel writer. She opened a blank page on the computer and stared at it. And stared some more. And wondered if going for a walk would bring up some ideas. Maybe do some laundry. Those supplies would still be here tomorrow. But of course, so would the blank page.
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Genie in a Box: Words and thoughts from Eugenia Parrish, Author 
Oh, my. How many times have I been there!
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Yep, it’s a large club! Thanks for reading.
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Hahaha oh I have so been there!!
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Getting started is the hardest part! Stationery doesn’t help with that.
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Blank paper, far far to many pages sit in my writing area. But as for the laundry, if it was left to me, it would been an even bigger pile…🙂
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I guess we all have our preferred method of procrastination! Thanks for reading, Michael.
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They say don’t force it. But that’s not the solution, I’ve found. 🙂
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Me, too. If I don’t force it, I’ll find something on TV that I just have to watch! Thanks for your comments.
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Well at least she has all the necessities. One day the blank page will be full along with many more.
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Well, that’s her dream! Thanks, Niagara!
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It happens!
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Lovely to have the tools and space – and time – to write. But until you know at least in outline what you want to write about, that paper will remain unblemished!
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So true. Thanks, Penny
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That blank page is so bright, it drives me crazy. A walk might inspire though.
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Sometimes it works for me 🤠
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i think she should just let go and write whatever comes to mind without fear of the inner critic. 🙂
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Absolutely. Sometimes it takes a lifetime to overcome that fear, but that’s why writers need to support each other. Thanks, plaridel.
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What is it about the Blank Page that intimidates us so? At the very least we could just do stream of consciousness till it gets somewhere. I wonder if we think we have to get it perfect the first time around?
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I believe you’re right. Our inner critic is so much worse than any other. It takes a real effort to silence the SOB. Are we simply brought up that way? I know I was. If I didn’t do something (no matter what) perfect the first time, my father would humiliate me until I gave it up. It held me back most of my life in many ways (sorry, don’t mean to snivel, it just applies to what you said). It’s one of the reasons I applaud Nanowrimo — for a month we simply can’t do anything, really, except stream of consciousness. Much ends up rubbish, but rubbish can be fixed! Not a blank page. Thank you so much for your comments.
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I agree with you that our childhood conditioning figures largely in this. If only there were a simple way to re-program our thought patterns once and for all. I remember reading a college survey that said “B” students were the happiest and went on to be just as happy in their jobs. Ergo, shooting for the “B” in writing may actually make us write more!
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Sounds good to me 😀
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Someone who is poetic could probably write a “Ballad of the Blank Page.”
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Well, that won’t be me >D Thanks for the idea, though. I can use all I can get.
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Sometimes a great idea appears out nowhere when I least expect it, so I pull up a blank page – and the idea suddenly disappears!
My story!
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Grab for the notebook! Kindle app, phone app, paper pad — I’ve learned. Of course, there’s the ones that I write down in the middle of the night and wonder WTH was I thinking? Thanks, Keith.
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Dear Genia,
There’s nothing more intimidating than a blank piece of paper (or screen, as it were). Nicely done. At the very least, she’ll get some laundry out of the way.
Shalom,
Rochelle
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Thank you, Rochelle. As always, an astute comment.
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Story of all our lives!
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Yes, it is. Now I’m wondering if I should add “answer all the lovely comments” to my list of things to do instead of write.
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Clean desk is a sign of a troublesome job being avoided.
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I totally agree 😀 Thank you for reading.
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I’m great at buying stuff ready for some task (usually DIY) and then not doing anything 🙂
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Story of my life! >D Thanks for reading.
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After my mother passed, I found boxes of unfinished projects in the attic. Apparently I come by it honestly!
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That blank page is always the scariest part.
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Isn’t it, though! Thanks for reading, Iain.
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So true. A senior manager of mine, who did not like people suggesting ideas, was having a problem making a decision. So I pointed out how some people who kept turning the blank page over never actually wrote anything down. I am sure he did not understand what I was telling him.
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Thanks, James. I love your advice, and I’m sure he didn’t have a clue!
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