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On Knowing – Stream of Consciousness Saturday (Know)

I’m having a hard time with this prompt. I don’t come up with them knowing what I’m going to write – it’s as much of a challenge for me as for anyone else to find something appropriate to write on. All part of the plan I suppose.

I’m having a hard time with this because most of the time I don’t feel as though I know anything. I know facts, such as that gravity exists and I know how to do things, such as type. But it’s hard to know the future, which is where my mind usually is. I tend not to dwell on the past too much, and I know I don’t spend enough time in the present. It’s difficult not to think of the future when there is a work in progress at hand. The number of things that I don’t know about that are countless. Can I finish it? Will it be any good? Am I any good? Will anyone actually want to read it?

I know nothing, not even in my heart. So what do I know in my heart?

That I will care for and do everything in my power for my children as long as I live. As much as I may wish writing was my life, it is not. They are. My heart remains always and forever with them.

I know nothing else.

 

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This post is part of SoCS. Please join in!

Here are the rules:

1. Your post must be stream of consciousness writing, meaning no editing, (typos can be fixed) and minimal planning on what you’re going to write.

2. Your post can be as long or as short as you want it to be. One sentence – one thousand words. Fact, fiction, poetry – it doesn’t matter. Just let the words carry you along until you’re ready to stop.

3. There will be a prompt every week. I will post the prompt here on my blog on Friday, along with a reminder for you to join in. The prompt will be one random thing, but it will not be a subject. For instance, I will not say “Write about dogs”; the prompt will be more like, “Make your first sentence a question,” or “Begin with the word ‘The’.”

4. Ping back! It’s important, so that I and other people will come and read your post! The way to ping back, is to just copy and paste the URL of my post somewhere on your post. Then your URL will show up in my comments, for everyone to see. For example, in your post you can copy and past the following: “This post is part of SoCS: (https://lindaghill.wordpress.com/2014/04/11/the-friday-reminder-and-prompt-for-socs-april-1214/)” Also, you can come here and link your post in the comments. The most recent comments will be found at the top.

5. Read at least one other person’s blog who has linked back their post. Even better, read everyone’s! If you’re the first person to link back, you can check back later, or go to the previous week, by following my category, “Stream of Consciousness Saturday,” which you’ll find right below the “Like” button on my post.

6. Copy and paste the rules (if you’d like to) in your post. The more people who join in, the more new bloggers you’ll meet and the bigger your community will get!

7. Have fun!


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K is for … K, Where Did It Go?

I lose things all the time. I can have something in my hand one minute and the next it’s gone. Disappeared. Like gremlins took it for fun. The idea for this post actually came about when I was looking for my thesaurus so I could look up a good word to use for my “K” post. Can you tell I didn’t find the thesaurus?

What I did find, however, was an idea for a post. I got to thinking, whilst searching, about how the minutiae of life could fit in to a story. For the most part, it doesn’t. It’s rare that we read about in a book or see in a movie a character searching for something they can’t find, having aches and pains, or even going to the bathroom, unless it’s important to the plot.

Then I took my idea one step further – what if something as small as life’s pesky little problems became the plot? It could work, right? It didn’t take me long to realize, it already had!

Where did I drop that damned ring?

Wow, that’s one hell of a belly ache – oh look, an alien!

Next time you need to plot a story, think about the last thing that got on your nerves. Then run with it. At the very least, you may get a blog post out of it.

 

For the continuing saga of Jupiter and Xavier, and the dastardly Bob, click here: http://lindaghillfiction.wordpress.com/2014/04/12/k-is-for-knock-knock/