Thank you to Sadje for the Tell the Story Challenge . “Write anything that comes to your mind in regard to this picture.”
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She wanted to live forever. Avoid death at all costs. Every living moment focused on that goal. All consuming. All pervading. Her wealth and all her energy spent on her personal holy grail quest. Friends shunned and family scorned by a pathological obsession. No scientific or mythological stone left unturned.
But when the end inevitably came. What was it all for. A fools gold prize. Body turned to dust. A life ultimately wasted in the desire to prolong it. No fond memories created . No legacy built. Her clothes and a book are all that remained in the end.
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I am tagging
If you fancy having a go then have a look at this picture and see where it takes you.
:)) good one. π
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Thank you
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Good job π
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Thanks. I feel awkward doing these still, Feels so unnatural posting this. But I enjoy them and I suspect itβs good for me. Have you ever tried.
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No, I haven’t. I feel like I can write a factual story or a very close version of the truth pretty well – but the second I have to use my imagination I’m lost. Very black and white in my writing that way. I think you did great!
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Thank you. As you say my imagination seems to leave when I pick up a pen.
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I am like you, Robyn, in that I can do well writing non-fiction, fact-based with a bit of my own opinion added, perhaps even a bit of humour. But I have tried my hand at writing fiction more than a few times, and it simply falls flat. I told a friend the other day that the problem is I have no imagination! π
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I feel so wooden. I look at you and Robyn, look at your posts and just go wow. So much to learn.
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You write wonderfully!!! Yours is one of only four blogs that I make it a point to read EVERY day! You write from the heart, and it shows.
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I am deeply touched. Thank you
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Excellente!
Thank you for the tag – I shall get to work after a good night’s sleep… π
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Good and thank you
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A great story. I like where you went with the prompt. Life is about living and creating good memories. Thanks for playing along.
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Thank you for asking me- itβs good for me.
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Youβre welcome π
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Wow! So incredibly sad and touching, and all thatβs in between. Iβve spent the day stressing, trying to make deadlines, trying to get the children working on their school work – trying, trying, trying. And all the while I forget that when itβs all said and done, I will be nothing but dust. Be happy, live for today, be present today, everything else will come into place – eventually, but it will, no need to stress. πππ½
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You say it so much better than me. I think I should employ you as my ghostwriter……π
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I like it!
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Thank you so much.
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You are a good, natural storyteller. Your growing audience proves that.
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Thank you, from you, that means a lot.
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Well done! & thanx for the nomination! It’s an interesting picture so let’s see what comes from it… Although it’ll be next week as I’ve already scheduled my posts for this week… but I will take part… Thank you! π
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Good π
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Thanks for the tag……. working on it!
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Good
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btw, what can I call you? I’m Di.
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Some call me muppet, others bagpuss, some TJ Hooker, others call me Gary…..
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I loved the muppets, being a Fozzy fan.
I’ll stick with Gary if that’s OK?
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Thatβs fine.
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π
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Here’s my story, I hope you like it
https://pensitivity101.wordpress.com/2019/02/05/tell-the-story-6/
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Your good at this.
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Thank you for saying π I enjoy doing them.
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There are two pictures and I don’t know which to comment on shall do both. The upper photo of the clothes and the bench first.
I always enjoyed the original book and the film but was a bit unsure of the remake as I wasn’t expecting “The invisible woman.”
The second photo of the frosty fence.
Good God, Auschwitz was a fearful place especially in the winter, I only survived by keeping my mind outside the wire.
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Yes that works well.
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Good one
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Great story. You write really well. Not that I’m an expert, I just know when I can follow a story, when it flows effortlessly, when I don’t have to work out what is being said.
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Thank you so much.
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Such a good tale.
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Oooooooooo, fancy tellin’ tale there, Sir!
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Now that is a compliment. Thank you.
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