Friday Fictioneers – Write a 100-word story based on the Photo Prompt image above by © Bill Reynolds
“You need to get away. The words will flow if you get out of the city. You have too many distractions!” my editor was doing her usual rant on the phone.
“The dog needs grooming, we’re short-staffed at the cafe, and my roses won’t prune themselves…” I lamented back down the phone.
“Well, you know the deadline, yes? Please just try and finish that manuscript. Your fans want the sequel.”
“Okay, I’ll go bush. I’ll take my guitar. Just me, nature, my laptop…I’m out of Mozzie repellent. They’ll eat me alive!”
“Stop procrastinating!”
I hate that P word!
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Fleur's Fables 
Oh, I wish I had fans demanding my next book like that! Great story, Fleur.
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Thanks Mason, so do I!
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‘I hate that P word” Love this, if only I had fans. I have added a piece I wrote for our writing group some time ago.
The Procrastinators
If and only are companions
They go hand in hand with fate
Like the dreams of millions
In retrospect, they arrive too late.
If and only trapped in meditation
Held back by dithering doubt
full of indecisive hesitation
In retrospect, just throw them out.
If and only may rule your life
with choices hard to bare
what could have been was strife
In retrospect, do you really care?
Now if was your only thought
when you couldn’t make up your mind
of things not done or should or ought
In retrospect, if only you had more time.
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Well said! I’m sorry I missed this earlier, James. This is a great poem, can I share it with our local Writer’s Group on our Facebook page? We’ve finished for the year, but they’d love this. Sorry again for this late reply.
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Thank you, yes please feel free to share this with your writing group and the Facebook page. I am pleased you enjoyed my humble attempt at poetry.
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I can just hear the self-satisfied smirk when the editor adds “Procrastination is the thief of time”
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💯. Thank you Neil, I’m sorry for this very late reply. Somehow I missed your comment.
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No electricity in the bush… take that editor. 😀
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Haha …exactly! Thank you Tannille 😊
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Dear Fleur,
Isn’t it amazing the other things that get done when we have a deadline hanging over our heads? Oh that P word. Well done.
Shalom,
Rochelle
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I know what you mean, so true! Thank you, Rochelle 😊
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But–if I don’t procrastinate, I might get something done! And who knows where THAT might lead!
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Exactly, I’m hearing you!
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Some of us just don’t have time to procrastinate. But for most writers, it seems to be part of the process. Well done. 🙂
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I procrastinate, depending on what I should be doing with my writing. Sometimes editing is more enticing than working on a story! Thank you, Bill 🙂
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🙂
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I wondered what word it would be. The bane of all purposeful people! Hoping she gets past it to finish her manuscript.
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Thank you msjadeli, and apologies for thr late reply. Hopefully the bush will bring out her creative flow.
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You’re welcome, Fleur.
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