Before Tinder
May 31, 2019
This week's challenge was to write about a random character. I got "A seasoned trobiaritz is trying to get a date". After some browsing via Wikipedia I discovered a trobiaritz was a female troubadour, in the 12th and 13th century, in Occitan. Which is, and was both a region and a language in southern France, as well as part of Spain and Italy. I decided at that time'seasoned' would be any unmarried woman over 25, and dating, being pre-Tinder, pre any social media, might be a challenge. Mine took a while to get going on, but is okay. It's 995 words, just under the limit of 1000.
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