Here’s a Story…

Today, I’d like to tell you a story about a woman you all know.

(Aside: woman?  Does anyone else feel funny applying that word to themselves?  Gal, girl…they sound more appropriate.  Am I old enough to be called a “woman?”  What?  I’m in my thirties?  Seriously…I could swear I was only twenty…)

Anyway, this is the story about a woman who liked to write.  She had a journal on the internet into which she placed her writing on a semi-regular basis, as the feeling hit.  She particularly enjoyed writing to prompts, as she felt some guideline, however small, helped direct her thoughts and resulted in stronger writing.

Sometimes, however, this woman, even with a plethora of perfectly wonderful writing prompts, could think of nothing to put down on virtual paper.  She would spend odd amounts of time staring at the screen, fingers poised above the keys, waiting for inspiration to strike.

This lack of inspiration often lingered for an hour or two, sometimes for weeks.  Really, two weeks of perfectly good writing prompts, and the woman could come up with nothing.  Nothing.

So, one day, the woman decided to cheat.  She would combine two writing prompts from two different sources, and turn them into a nonfiction, third-person story about writers block.  She was concerned for a moment that it wasn’t a very good story, but then decided (and I’m paraphrasing here), “Phooey.  One has to start somewhere, hasn’t one?”

This is where we find our woman today, writing a story about nothing, merely to satisfy two bloggy challenges and point out a rather good-looking recipe her sister pinned on Pinterest recently.

Found here via Pinterest. Click on the photo to be taken to the recipe.

Doesn’t that look good?

The End.

“Are you on Pinterest? Share the last five items you pinned, choose one and let it inspire a blog post.“

“Share a recipe you love, and the story that goes with it. Or…share a story you love with the recipe that goes with it.”