Welcome to the Picture it & Write creative writing exercise. I invite people to join in, comment with your paragraph of fiction to accompany the image. It doesn’t have to follow my story or reflect the same themes. It can be a poem or in a different language (please provide a translation). Anyone who wants to join in, is welcome. This photograph will be reblogged under Ermisenda on tumblr and added to the Picture it & Write gallery on Facebook and Pinterest.
Please continue to write however you’re inspired, but add a tag to the beginning of your post if there’s mature content in order to keep Picture it & Write an engaging event for all of our followers.
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Stop leaving me behind. My friends claim I will never grow up. Once they graduated college, they started ignoring my calls and setting instant messenger statuses to invisible. Enjoying cartoons and video games does not make me immature. Working forty to sixty hours a week, I need a fictional world into which I can escape, somewhere my brain can turn off and unwind from the day. No one asked me if I wanted to grow up with them.
No one asked me if I wanted to turn Dungeons and Dragons into a game night with Charades and wine. No one asked me. Everyone decided, all on their own, that they’d outgrown me. Stop leaving me behind. I’ll never give up my “childish” things but that doesn’t mean that when we are together, I can’t grow with you too.
-Eliabeth Hawthorne
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So easy for others to point a finger at people who keep a childish way open to escape to. They don’t realize that each of them has their own scape goat
So true. I’ll take cartoons and role play over drugs and booze any day.
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Hi 🙂 here’s my Philippines https://ladyleemanila.wordpress.com/2015/03/22/my-philippines-picture-it-write/
Beautiful tone of nostalgia.
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Interesting theme for your story, Eliabeth. Some people can never accept that others have different interests in life and continue to view their difference as odd. I liked the way you linked the moving on of the seasons to ‘growing up’.
Thanks Millie, looking forward to reading yours in a sec.
Hello again. Here is the link to my story for this week’s prompt:
https://milliethom.wordpress.com/2015/03/22/the-gift-of-autumn-picture-it-and-write/
AAAWE!!!! I wasn’t expecting a happy ending. “Never make someone a priority who treats you like an option.” Even though Boyfriend and I are both very career focused, we set time aside for date night and activities with each other’s family. If you don’t figure out the balancing act, there’s no way you can hold on to both.
I quite agree, Ermilia. I don’t think the situation of anyone waiting all that time would ever arise! Good to know that you and Boyfriend have got priorities sotred out. 🙂
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You’re never too old for games. Here’s mine https://joe2stories.wordpress.com/2015/03/22/picture-it-and-write-a-presence-in-the-shadows/
I am a little late this week … but here is my contribution
http://scraps-from-life.blogspot.in/2015/03/beyond-little-while.html
http://livinglifegreenspeck.blogspot.in/2015/03/autumn-in-spring.html
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Here’s mine, better late than ever! 🙂
https://authormercedes.wordpress.com/2015/03/25/the-window-to-his-heart/
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