Velvet Verbosity's 100 Word Challenge is ready to step in and negotiate an end to the NBA lockout. This week's word is "writing", and my story is called "Just Like Her".
Madison has the coolest handwriting in the whole class, Jennifer thought. Madison was more popular, more athletic, taller, prettier, smarter, nicer, better in every way. She wanted her letters to look just like hers, all bubbly and even and friendly looking. She practiced at night, writing her own name over and over, wanting it to be perfect. They had a spelling test and Jennifer wanted her name to look just right on the top. She wrote it again and again, erasing and rewriting, until Miss Blake's voice snapped through her trance.
"OK, class. Time! Hand your papers forward, please."
ooohhh...the dangers of imitation.
ReplyDeleteruh-roh I hate when that happens. :) And it has happened to me. Great job!
ReplyDeleteI started writing with pencil, because I went through too much paper when I'd have to start over if I made a mistake with ink.
ReplyDeleteTara took my comment. It's stories like yorus that make me pencil fanatic.
ReplyDeleteCute 100, I like it
Love this as a metaphor for writer's block, Robin
ReplyDeleteAhhhh, perfection catches us all sometimes! What I've loved most about NaNo is the challenge of quantity over quality; it has kept me from losing even one moment going back and trying for that perfection :)
ReplyDeleteAwww. I was just the opposite. I saw the popular girls with their bubbly handwriting and I made mine neat and small just to rebel.
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