Finding the Right Fit
PHOTO PROMPT © Björn Rudberg
How difficult can it be to pick which hat you want?
We have wondered around the markets and the shops looking for one you like the best.
You don’t want a multi colour one, or one with a bobble on top, so what kind do you want?
I never imagined how tiring this would be, being dragged around town by my ten year old, trying to find the best fit.
If one isn’t chosen from here, I worry that you will want to return to all the others you liked before to make sure you didn’t miss the one.
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Big thanks to Rochelle for hosting Friday Fictioners! Where we all come together and write a piece of writing inspired by the picture provided in only 100 words.
I am so busy trying to edit my novel at the moment, I don’t think it’s good enough to send to my mentor Rachel, but I kinda sick of reading it! Especially the beginning! I have this huge thing in side me that wants to go out and buy who to books. Will it ever be good enough to send to her, I doubt it!
A Story About A Girl 
Keep going, finishing a novel is an achievement in itself. Nice take here, those kids can be demanding!
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Thanks
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Something tells me she is destined to go to every single shop once again. And all the best for your novel, trust me, it’s better than how you feel it is 🙂
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Apparently it’s a good thing that I’m sic of it!
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You just encapsulated my early shopping trips with my stepdaughter. So graphically.
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Thanks x
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Dear Claire,
You’ll always find something in your novel that ‘needs’ to be rewritten. Time to walk away from it for while. 😉 Your story puts me in mind of when I was 12 and drove my mother nuts trying to find just the right black turtleneck sweater. It had to be like the one Paul McCartney wore.
Nicely done.
Shalom,
Rochelle
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I’ve sent it to my mentor and not look at it for several days and it’s killing me!! What am I supposed to do with my time now
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Start another novel? 😉
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lol, but then I’ll end up concentrating on two
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I pretty much wrote my first two simultaneously. Every time I moved onto the second I had to go back to the first. It wall worked out in the end 😉
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Waiting for feedback is almost killing me lol, plus there is no point writing a 2nd if my first is crap
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Ha.. maybe I can even see some parallel between finding the perfect hat for a girl and polishing a text to perfection.
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I do too!!
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A bit like my wip
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Ugh. Fussy kids! Reminds me of when my mother brought my sister shopping for a prom dress; only to end up buying the first one they saw!
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When she got old enough and was in high school and working parttime my daughter used to go to the mall or second-hand store with a friend and buy her own clothes. She was happy and I was happy. Good writing, Claire. Happy Holidays! 🙂 — Suzanne
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I think knitting or crochet lessons for this 10-year old might be of use, to save their parent’s sanity.
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I think it’s time to rein in that ten-year-old. Learning to make up one’s mind is a skill that many just aren’t born with. Good story, I felt the mother’s despair.
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