Friday Fictioneers: Typewriter
PHOTO PROMPT © Jeff Arnold
“She was such an imaginative child. The stories she told, we thought she was lying about everything.”
“Didn’t the doctor diagnose her as schizophrenia when she was a teenager?”
“All those people in her head. We thought it was the best answer.”
“She seems fine now.”
“It’s amazing, how calm she is now.”
“What did the doctors do? Was it therapy or meds?”
“Neither. It was a typewriter.”
“What do you mean a typewriter?”
“Seem all those people her head were characters in her stories. She needed an outlet to clear her head. My daughter’s not schizophrenia, she’s an author.”
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Friday Fictioneers is a challenge to write a 100 word story from a photo prompt. It’s hosted by Rochelle Wisoff-Fields, anyone can play. Click HERE to read other Fictioneers’ stories.
❤ Outstanding story that I can definitely relate to. Writing is my therapy.
I know the feeling. ;0)
It’s a thin line!
Funny.
Some authors do actually suffer from/are blessed with hearing voices
;0)
That’s really good. I don’t know if anything like that’s ever happened but it’s so believable
Thanks. ;0)
I like the idea of all the characters bottled up, just waiting to come pouring out into the page.
Nice imagery.
I can so related to that!
Like so many of us. ;0)
🙂
Gateway to sanity. Nice thought.
“Gateway to sanity.” Nice line.
Dear Phyllis,
The perfect cure. Well done.
Shalom,
Rochelle
Thank you, Rochelle.
Well, of course she is! All writers are a little bit unusual, aren’t they?
That’s what makes us great.
I can so relate to this story – needing that outlet to clear my head. Your story put a big smile on my face. Thank you!
That makes me happy. ;0)
Lovely outcome, of course she’s a writer
Her muse broke free. A lovely tale.
Here’s mine!
Thanks.
I think many of us get angsty if we don’t have an outlet for our imagination.
Nicely done
So true.
Thank you.
Wouldn’t that be great if it were always the case?
I’m sure there are far more better ways than only medicine.
So, I guess, instead of meds, we can just try handing out typewriters at the insane asylums!
Random House will be inundated with all the new fiction. LOL
Randy
LOL Indeed. You never know, for some it might.
It’s like looking into a mirror. Well penned.
Hopefully that means you’re very imaginative.
You have no idea. For a long time, people thought I’m crazy, maybe I am, who knows.
I prefer the creative flow. ;0)
Reading between the lines, anything’s possible.
Ha. ;0)
Well that explains everything! The devil and angel having their dispute with everyone in the middle throwing in their own opinion. Awesome story!
Thanks.
Let the author fly. Sometimes the professionals look for symptoms to support their conclusion, if only they understood creativity.
So true.
Love the cure… so much better than pills.
;0) So true.