99 word prompt : A beacon of her light
July 6, 2017 prompt: In 99 words (no more, no less) write about a beacon. It can be from a lighthouse or other source. Use the word literally or figuratively and go where the prompt leads you.
Here is the link to this prompt challenge: Carrot Ranch
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“Are you telling me you are what you write?” Lee asked.
“No.”
“You’ll never be a Hemingway,” he sneered.
“It’s the journey, not the destination that’s important.”
“I’ve heard the cliché,” he snickered.
“I hear the universal heart and my write-house shines out a beacon of her light.”
“That’s a stupid pun! If you’re the lighthouse, I’m the caretaker that straightens the beam.”
“No,” I chuckled. “You’re a ship’s captain refusing to allow a light to tell you there’s danger ahead.”
“What danger?”
“You’re about to crash on the rocks. My lawyers have pictures of you with your mistress.”
Wow! That was great!
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Thanks. 🙂
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Oh yeah! Hit him where it hurts!!! Great stuff.
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I know of someone just like him. He picks significant-others who are either too gentle to fight him or can’t. He tried to convince me that I’d never be a Hemingway and started telling me the odds of writing a best seller are worse than the odds of being struck by lightning.
I said with a smile, “I know that.”
So then he asked why I write and I said, “I can’t not write.”
He couldn’t understand why someone would want to put so much time and effort into something that isn’t a sure money-maker.
Words can tell a person why, but the person hearing them has to have the ability to understand the concept.
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He sounds related to my ex partner, who was always putting me down one way or another. I was an idiot to be taken in and ended up looking after his kids whilst he led the life of a single guy! Ho hum. My learning curve was more of an arc!
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I was fortunate to get away from hubby #1 a year after we were married. The important thing is that you DID learn. 🙂
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I married the wrong guy in 1977, lived with the wrong partner from 1981 to 1989 (alcoholic and putter-downer) and now I’ve found my soul mate! Took a while, but I got there in the end!
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Isn’t it strange how alcoholic and putter-downer seem to go hand in hand?
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Indeed. Of course when the relationship failed he told everyone it was all my fault.
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I remember asking #1 why he couldn’t keep a job (he worked for about a week. I paid the bills). He said it was because I was working and it made him feel like less of a man. It’s like blaming a pedestrian for getting hit because he shouldn’t have been on your part of the sidewalk when your car ran into someone’s house. “-)
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good one!
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Thanks. 🙂
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I see you and others doing these writing “exercises” and I assume they are done for fun. But, aren’t they a distraction and taking time away from the writing and editing you need to do on your novel(s)? Just helping you focus!
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Writing and poetry prompts are fun and a way to help tone your writing skills.
On the same days, I’m doing a part-time “day job” and/or working on my books. I’m presently on book 17 (yes, I had to split up another one) trying to completely re-write it.
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Tolstoy did not split up his books into “War” and “Peace”!
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War wasn’t done in one century and peace in another. Besides, who wants to read a book that’s entirely about peace. 🙂
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Peace? Must be fantasy
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In a violent universe, you often have to kill to get it. Uh…. 🙂
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I hope she got the house, car, dog and pool.
I like that notion of ” I can’t not write”. Its what motivates us to push the keys around on the keyboard. Enjoyed your 99 words.
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Thanks. 🙂
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Serves the down-to-earth right. She has handled him well. Loved the final line in your story.
http://ideasolsi65.blogspot.in/2017/07/mother-hope.html?m=1
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Serves the down-putter right.
A typo Error. Sorry.
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I like down-putter. It fits. 🙂
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Coming by way of Carrot Ranch. Enjoyed the flash. Great voice! And very effective use of dialogue to carry the story to its very satisfying end.
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Thanks. 🙂
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Love this line, Joelle: “I hear the universal heart and my write-house shines out a beacon of her light.” And the final punch. Writers are also observant, strategic and patient. 🙂
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Thanks for letting me know you liked my write-house line.
Sometimes, doesn’t it feel as if you’re doing “automatic writing?” You’re sitting at the computer, your fingers are flying, and your mind wants to know “what’s next?”
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Yes! I went with my sister-in-law to this spiritual class she goes to and the woman leading it would let people ask questions and she would then go to a journal and pen the “answer.” I kept thinking, writers do this all the time!
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Should have watched a little more closely where he was going! Nice surprise!
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All ego and his brains were in his crotch, not in his head. 🙂
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Ha! Kind of hard to see from the darkness of pants!
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LOL!
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