Copyright: Dee Lovering
We’re here for another week, gathered around a virtual computer in a virtual college dorm room, in a virtual college. We’re here as the Friday Fictioneers to discuss our original stories for this week. Our hostess for this gathering–she’s not virtual by the way–is the gracious and talented author and artist, Rochelle Wisoff-Fields. The challenge for this group is to write a story with no more than 100 words. It’s supposed to have a beginning, middle, end, and follow the picture prompt for the week. This week’s prompt was supplied by Dee Lovering. Thanks, Dee.
To read the other stories from group members, just click on the little blue frog in the blue box after clicking on the link. The link for the other stories is as follows:
https://rochellewisofffields.wordpress.com/2015/04/29/1-may-2015/
Genre: Humor Fiction
Word Count: 100 Words
LOVELY BARCELONA by P.S. Joshi
Laura sat at the computer planning her new story. She decided it would begin in Barcelona, Spain. She could hear the click of the castanets and feel the sunshine.
She’d read a piece on how to write a story in a week. She now had to place her chosen characters there. They would be college students on vacation from the U.S. She didn’t know anything about college students from anywhere else.
Her roommate, Dorothy, walked in. She read the beginning story over Laura’s shoulder.
“Hah,” she remarked. “Just how do these students have the money to go to Barcelona, Spain?”
Musings on Life & Experience 
Dorothy knows how to kill a good story. Time to find another roommate.
Good one that shows how sometimes we kill our own stories with logic.
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She needs a room mate with ore imagination. Well done Suzanne.
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I love the idea of getting information on writing a story in a week. Ha! Made me laugh. I’ve seen those advertisements. They make me roll my eyes.
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Made me smile! 🙂
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Thanks, Lorna. I’m so glad you enjoyed the story. 😀 — Suzanne
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Ha… yes maybe she need to place her story a little closer to home.. but at least she realized that she could not learn what it meant to learn how it would be to be a university student in Spain.
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Thanks, Bjorn. She’ll need to find a way to supply her characters with money and do a bit of research for that story. Either that, or she’ll have to do as you suggest and bring it closer to home. I’m so glad you enjoyed the story. 🙂 — Suzanne
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Good one, Suzanne. Made me laugh. It’s like TV shows where all these ordinary people live in gorgeous ultra-delux homes and drive fancy cars! My husband and I look at each other and laugh.
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Dear Suzanne,
Death to all buzz-killers! A lovely way to write a story within a story for the prompt this week.
Aloha,
Doug
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Although I can understand how this can be an imagination killer, it is always best to nip potential issues like these in the bud before a reader gets hold of it.
Good story!
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There’s one in every crowd. Kill joy!
Write on,
Tracey
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Money is an annoying reality that a lot of stories skip. My wife went to Sevilla for a semester in college but the answer to how she paid for that was “student loans” and I’m pretty sure we’re still paying for it. 🙂
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Dear Suzanne,
One of the important things in writing is to tie up all those challenging loose ends. If one person asks ‘how’ or ‘why’ you know someone else will. Great use of the prompt that gives us all something to think about as writers.
Shalom,
Rochelle
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Writing is so much more complicated than putting your ideas on paper. Good reminder!
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Extremely well written.
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There’s always a critic! Now she’ll have to weave that into the plot. I’m thinking plane mysterious tickets that suddenly turn up in the mail…
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One word — Daddy. That ought to shut Dorothy up.
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oh that’s funny 😛
Ellespeth
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i guess she meant well. it was a valid question to ask, but her timing was bad. it shouldn’t let laura get discouraged, though.
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Very good point, but it’s up to the story teller to make it all work and I bet she will. Or we’ll all just have to dig into the old suspension of disbelief! Maybe it will take a bit longer than a week to write the story after all.
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Haha, this is perfect. There are these wonderful, unique plot ideas and then logic (or Dorothy) come along and ask these annoying questions. Better answer them right away, or Laura will find herself in a huge plot hole later on. 🙂
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I need Dorothy to come over and read few of my lines, I think it would save me some time. Great story, fun and educational.
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But of course there must be castanets! According to my wife, all Spanish music must include castanets–it’s in the Spanish constitution. (I haven’t found any other sources that back her up on this, but I haven’t exactly tried to debunk her theory either.)
Fun story within a story.
All my best,
Marie Gail
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Hard work, my dear, hard work! Her roommate needs more chutzpah! Nice job, Suzanne!
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Personally, I think Laura had a good thing going there. I always close my door when I write a story. No peeking! Great story, Suzanne. Nicely written.
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How to write a story in a week…lol! At least Laura has more than 100 words to work with 🙂 Dorothy seems impatient but helpful.
I did enjoy this piece, Suzanne
Ellespeth
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I am so glad to see your character is writing something she knows and the answer to her room matres question is easy. Every college student knows mom and dad foot the bill.
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Get on with it, Laura. Ignore the nay-sayers. Fill in that tiny plot hole when you get another spark.
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I hope Laura doesn’t get too discouraged by Dorothy’s nit-picking! Good story. 🙂
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Well done Suzanne, writing is a solitary pastime and Dorothy won’t be missed!
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Duh! That’s why it is called ‘fiction’. Maybe Dorothy needs to be cast in a story and then killed off.
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Dear PatriciaRuthSusan, I love your story and I think Mommy & Daddy pay for most of the rich kids trek overseas. They can then brag that “Junior” has gone to Europe on “holiday.” Great job! Nan
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Thanks, Nan. I’m so glad you liked the story. You’re not the only one who mentioned it was the parents who paid for the trip. That’s more than likely. 🙂 — Suzanne
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Don’t you just have people who read what you’re writing over your shoulder! 😉
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Thanks, Jacqueline. Yes, and even more I really dislike it when someone stands and watches when I put in my code to use the internet. That could happen when I used to use an internet cafe here. 🙂 — Suzanne
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Oops! That should have read *hate!
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Don’t worry about it Jacqueline. I make typos also and figured it was supposed to be “hate.” 🙂
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