Title: First Draft
Source: Friday Fictioneers sponsored by Rochelle Wisoff-Fields-Addicted to Purple
Word count: 100 words
PHOTO PROMPT © Jeff Arnold
The retreat center advertised a magical, bucolic setting guaranteed to unplug the writer from an overconnected world. For hours, Catherine stared at the typewriter, her fingers mindlessly caressing the black keys. She sighed, rising, she stepped outside to tread the marshy moor.
The door clicked shut, and the stapler clacked his jaws.
“Is it good?”
Paper wiggled from under paperweights, wedged themselves into the roller, while the typewriter’s keys pounded words into existence.
“Any plot issues?” the hole punch asked as she perused the first paragraphs.
The ends of the space bar curled into a smile.
“It’s a best seller.”
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Keep on writing.
Jo Hawk The Writer
Jo Hawk 
Oh, if only…
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It is a wish.
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I want a first draught of whatever she’s having
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Yes if only it happened like this.
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Wouldn’t it be nice? 🙂
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Absolutely. All we had to do would be to find the correct device.
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Cute story, Jo.
Shalom,
Rochelle
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Thanks, Rochelle.
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love the imagination in this, when i go to sleep I would love if my laundry does this too!
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Sounds like to need to have a discussion with the house elves. 👍
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Don’t tell me even the stationary is judging our efforts!!
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Oh, Iain, you know everyone has an option. 🙂
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Its going to be the next “King Lear”! 🙂
How nice this would be!
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Perhaps it is a little unrealistic, but it would be nice. 🙂
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Yup! One can dream!
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And now, bring on the dancing dishes, magical teapot, perfectly set table, and let’s have some fine dining 🙂
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I imagine that is in the works in the dining hall. 🙂
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I want to do the writing. I need the magical appliances to vacuum, clean the bathroom, do the laundry, dishes, dust… Maybe I could use a jumpstart on certain days.
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LOL If the appliances were magical I’m not sure I would ever get up from my desk. 🙂 But you are right, there are days when a jump start is exactly what the Dr. ordered.
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Excellent take on the photo prompt – you really made me smile. 🙂
Susan A Eames at
Travel, Fiction and Photos
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I am so happy you enjoyed the story. 🙏
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I would love to have been a fly on the wall while that was happening! Brilliant Jo.
Here’s mine!
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Thanks, Keith. I laughed as I wrote it. ❤
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The hole punch could have spotted any holes in the plot. Wouldn’t it be brilliant to wake up and your thoughts and ideas had been typed and edited for you.
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It would be wonderful if we could transcribe our thoughts so easily. Glad you liked the story, Michael.
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Maybe when she gets back she’ll think she wrote it while in a daze 🙂
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I bet she does draliman ❤🙂
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Everyone’s a critic.
Sometimes I feel this way myself!
Superb piece, Jo
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Thank you, ceayr. I am delighted you enjoyed the piece. ❤
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Chilling! I think you just gave away Stephen King’s trade secret.
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Oh no! It’s a bad day if I’m channeling Stephen King. 😮
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🙂
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If only such a magical typewriter had been available in my school days.
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Ha. I bet that would have made schoolwork much easier. Thanks for reading, Mike. 🙂
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Oh, how wonderfully Disneyesque!
Randy
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Glad you enjoyed it, Randy.
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Wouldn’t that be great – at least as a kick-start?
Fun one, Jo
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There are plenty of days I could use a kick in the a… a kick-start. Glad you liked it, Dale.❤
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I feel ya!! ♥️
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Hi Jo, clearly every best seller has a great writing team to support the author. I sensed a of hint of the Charlotte Bronte.
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Perhaps Catherine is writing about her Heathcliff. A team to support us as we reach for our goals? Who could say no? Thanks, James ❤
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If this would work… maybe these days there is some code written that will produce best-sellers over and over.
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I’m sure at some point AI will figure it out Björn
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I could do with a team like that behind me. 🙂
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Wouldn’t it be nice? 👍😊
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