Seinfeld Script
Once upon a time, there was an arrogant old geezer who felt he could write because he occasionally strung a few words together. He saw a pretty picture and said, “I could compose a Flash Fiction about that.”
The more he stared, the harder his brain cells ossified. What was that thing? He was like Curly the Stooge, “I’m tryin’ to think – but nuthin’s happenin’.”
He read what several others had written, but that just gave him a dozen themes that he couldn’t plagiarize. “It’s useless.” he said, “I’ll never get a 100 word story out of this.”
The end.
Go to Rochelle’s Addicted to Purple site, and use her Wednesday picture as a prompt to write a complete 100 word story.
Archon's Den 
Now this is such an honest take.
We start out like that, but we have a great story at the end 🙂
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I don’t know about great. Some of my little stories are….acceptable. I just thought I’d grasp the chance to mock my writers’ block
head. 😆LikeLike
You could have written that about me! That’s why I’ve never tried to write a book.
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I would never denigrate your writing, but I know the difference between productive, and creative. 😯
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LOL! 😀
I read these things for about four or five weeks before I started doing them. I would look at the picture and couldn’t think of anything at all, and then read some of the entries and think “where the hell do they come up with this stuff?”
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I know. Me too, but it’s like the Thoreau quote on Rochelle’s site. It’s not what you look at, it’s what you see. A hundred Fictioneers, and a hundred different viewpoints – some Sci-Fi, some poetry, some horror, some romance. I began to suspect recreational medication, but in an old movie, just last night, Charlie Chan opined, “Line between genius and insanity, very thin.”
Keep trying. It’s good mental exercise. Sometimes, like this attempt, the failure can become a success. 🙂
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ha, ha…very witty. Personally, I think you nailed it!
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I can get away with this joke once (well, once-and-a-half – see here) but I’d better start feeding the brain cells like I feed the rest of the body. 😆
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Clever! 🙂
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Desperate! 😯 Thanx.
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It always helps/works (at least for me) to write what is actually going or not going on inside of us. It’s still writing. I’m doing it right now myself.
Nothing wrong with writing a reaction and have it be a story.
Can tell that I read every one of your 100 or so words. You don’t sound arrogant.
Thanks,
Larry (Moe will be the next one to comment)
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Thanx Larry
My stuff is often plodding, instead of inspired, but having read some of the others, that may be a good thing. At least my story has a vague connection to the photo.
Archon
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Listen Useless.
Why I ought smack you and Larry between the eyes.
Now get back to work – the both of you.
And don’ t”But Moe” or “Nyuck-nyuck-nyuck” me.
Moe
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But Moe….
why can’t you be nice to me like Larry? I di’nt say nyuck-nyuck-nyuck.
Okay! Okay! Back to work, back to work….
uh, Moe, was I comin’ – or goin’?? 😕
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Very clever! 100 words out of never being able to write 100 words 🙂
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Not “never”, just today….and a few other days, but we won’t mention them. Thanx. 😀
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Turning writer’s block into a story. Perfect. That must make this photo “your brain on Friday Fictioneers.” 🙂 Clever.
janet
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So that’s what my brain looks like. No wonder I have problems with these. You don’t have a snapshot of my spleen, do you?? Thanx! 😆
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This is more than perfect. In 100 words you nailed what many of us probably thought when we saw this prompt. BINGO!
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Under the I – Inspired. Once in a row. Always happy to hold a mirror up to reality. Glad you liked it. 🙂
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Archon, that was really clever. I’m glad when I saw it that I didn’t know what it was (it’s a cut grave vine given in a comment by Madison Woods). That way my imagination could take off easier. Even knowing what it is still doesn’t make it look any less yucky. Creative and well written. 🙂 —Susan
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I read Rochelle’s version first, so I knew what it was, but I just didn’t seem to have anything to say about festered grapes, and the photo didn’t seem to spark any no-grape thoughts either. For no obvious reason, I thought of the old TV character, Edith-Ann, in grade three. “And that’s the truth, The End, Ttthhh. I anchored the “The End” to a story about not being able to write a story, and people think I’m a genius….uh, creative….uh, not too senile?? 😕
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Hm, smart…and now I’m out of one of my backup stories. 😀
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Sorry! And I’ve exhausted my supply, too. 😦
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Ha ha Archon, I know that feeling only too well. Of course next time you will have to come up with something else! 🙂
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Oh yes, that was very definitely a one-trick pony….or a one pony trick. Glad you liked it though. 😀
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