Today's #flashfiction #TheDoubtfulWriter

“This town ain't big enough for the both of us.”

Mothra* #quote

I couldn't find the yellow brick road so I went down the silver brick road instead. Anyway onto the flash fiction!

The Key To Writing

        Camile lived as a writer with amazing potential but quite limited but the dreaded doubts of a writer. The beginning of her first novel:

        “Samuel entered the store.” Camile wrote.

        “Samuel entered the boat.” Camile edited her first line.

        “Samuel entered the castle.” Camile edited her first line again.

        “Samuel entered the store after the he entered the castle.” Camile edited her first line again.

        “Samuel entered the store before he entered the castle.” Camile edited her first line again.

        “Samuel entered the store.” Camile edited her first line again back to it's original form.

         Billions of ideas whirled around in her head. This loop spiraled for quite some time. She would stop herself and go back to rewrite. She may make progress to a few pages. But it would be discarded.

          This all changed on one cataclysmic day when her backspace key broke. She broke the delete key before that.   Her husband would be home soon. Maybe he could fix it. But at this moment, she decided, to just keep writing without trying to find a way to go back. She just let the ideas flow. Let doubt come at a later time.

          Eventually her husband did come home and he fixed the key...by buying a new keyboard. She had busted nearly every way to delete on that one. But when she got that keyboard she felt far less doubt. When that key was gone she wrote pages upon pages and she looked at it with satisfaction. She saw many mistakes that made her wince like before...but she saw things she liked. Things to keep.

         And now as she writes she doesn't doubt she'll make mistakes but she doesn't doubt that she'll succeed as well.