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PHOTO PROMPT © Penny Gadd for Rochelle’s Friday Fictioneers. Other stories featuring the prompt can be found here.
White walls… Sort of represents my creativity at the moment. Not even a smudge or child’s drawing to leap a story from. The plant resembles a spider, but the muse continues to sleep. Wake up! A killer spider plant, you can do this. The little voice in my head says, “piss off, you’re stupid”.
The old books might be enticing if I could read their spines. A white basket – there’s that colour again, against the matching wall and bookcase. Inspiration dead…
“Hey Tannille, let’s go work on the novel.”
Oh so now you play Muse, when the flash is over?
Tannille 
Shoulda gone with the killer spider plant
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Yeah, the muse refused to roll out of bed for it lol
Thanks N!
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Well my mama told me there’ll be days like this…
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Haha. Think it happens to us all.
Thanks C!
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Same problem with the muse. Maybe my muse has gone on holiday with yours.
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Bet it’s some where nice with great food and a view.
Thanks S!
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I guess flash fiction requires a flash of inspiration. White walls, just waiting to be written upon: nice metaphor.
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It does. I keep thinking it didn’t come this week but maybe it did.
Thanks A!
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Hahaha!
That inner voice is devious! 😛
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Not very polite that’s for sure 😀.
Thanks TDN!
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One of those weeks – we’ve all had them! 🙂
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Yep, sometimes the prompt leaves a blank. I went with the ole, just write whatever enters head technique 😀.
Thanks I!
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I watch it for hours, its green tentacles a stark contrast against a clinically white wall. Those creepy appendages hang motionless, waiting for me to look away. Does the beast have a name, and what does it eat?
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It eats you?
Thanks P 😀
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A perfect description of writer’s block. Love it!
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Thanks Colline. Normally an element in a photo triggers something. Not this time lol.
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😄
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I can relate. I tried to read the book spines to get inspiration, but no… Oh well, you prove that the muse works in mysterious ways.
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When all else fails try free flow.
Thanks T!
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Dear Tanille,
Some days the magic works and some days it doesn’t. 😉 Nicely played.
Shalom,
Rochelle
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Thanks Rochelle. At least it didn’t defeat me. 😀
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I hear you. Been there. Done that.
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Hits when one least expects it.
Thanks J
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Ha ha – nice little stream of consciousness!
Susan A Eames at
Travel, Fiction and Photos
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It’s all I had lol
Thanks S!
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Dozy muse. Needs a good talking to.
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I know, lazy cow! 😀
Thanks P!
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I love your stream of consciousness here. I found that plant creepy from the second I laid eyes on it.
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The plant has character. It dominates the picture.
Thanks L!
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Excellent take on the missing muse that we all experience.
I am still trying to figure out where to go – by avoiding killer plants, so for the second week in a row, I am reading other stories first!
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It’s a challenge for a lot of us this week I think. Perhaps ask yourself what room is the bookcase in? A home? A waiting room?
Thanks D!
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Methinks so, too.
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I see you did well! 👏
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🙂
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hehe… pretty much where my mind is, too. Just completely dead today. Too tired to think straight, let alone compose a legal sentence. ~Shalom, Bear
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I looked at the pic for about 5 minutes and decided to just write crap lol.
Thanks B!
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Oh the killer plants… we all went down that road… but you found a novel way to do it.
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The muse just want having it. Shocked me because once I thought spider plant I thought I could work it. Nope lol.
Thanks B!
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A teacher once said to me, if the muse won’t play, give it a bone. ( a list of words)You gave us one fine bone
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My muse says thank you for the fine complement, she enjoys a good bone 😀.
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My August was a lot like that.
Well done! 🙂
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Thanks S!
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Most a-muse-ing if you’ll pardon the pun! No? Okay!
My story – Billy and me!
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Haha cleaver!
Thanks K!
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Love it! Understand the blank white wall of nothingness, when the muse fails me. =)
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Weird thing is I find black more inspiring. Things can jump out of the dark.
Thanks B!
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Hmm, good point, hadn’t thought of it that way. =)
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Better late than never! Even the Muse needs a day off 🙂
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She’d take most days off given the chance.
Thanks D!
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It was a tricky one this week, I agree. Good stuff anyway, nice to see the workings of another writer’s mind.
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The insane process haha. Nearly believed this week would defeat me!
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Never give up, even if you’ve got nothing, something will rise up out of the mire!
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If you managed a novel from this picture, I would read it.
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One insane memoir lol
Thanks J!
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Oh, the daily struggle of a writer and a muse. Now hopefully mine will want to work on the novel. 🙂
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Mine lied and went back into after the flash fiction. Nights are best for my creativity, the day a bit hit and miss. Hope you two are playing nice?
Thanks Jo!
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Tonight the muse will not allow me to sleep. 😄 I suppose we work with what we’ve got. Hope your muse plays nice.
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Ride that creative wave!
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👍
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Great voice!
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Thanks Lisa!
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The plant certainly looks like a spider. And more often than not it played tricks, more so if it found you alone.
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Absolutely!
Thanks A!
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Looks like your muse needs a day off.
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One day turns into many…
Thanks B!
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it’s mission accomplished! facing a blank sheet of paper, was it hemingway to who said just type, type, and keep typing. 🙂
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When all else fails 😀.
Not sure I have ever done the technique before this story but it amused me.
Thanks P!
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A clever way to get a story, Tannille. Maybe the muse needs a good scare. Write a story about the muse being eaten by the plant. Well done. 🙂 — Suzanne
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Now there is an idea!
Thanks S!
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