Hello, and welcome once again to the Friday prompt for Stream of Consciousness Saturday! It’s been a while since I presented a choice for the prompt between one thing and another – today I thought I’d expand on that and give a few.
Your Friday prompt for Stream of Consciousness Saturday is: “bat, bet, bit, bot, but.” Focus on one, use them all, or simply include one of these words in your post. It’s up to you!
After you’ve written your Saturday post tomorrow, please link it here at this week’s prompt page in the comments so others can find it and see your awesome Stream of Consciousness post. Anyone can join in!
To make your post more visible, use the SoCS badge! Just paste it in your Saturday post so people browsing the reader will immediately know your post is stream of consciousness and/or pin it as a widget to your site to show you’re a participant. Wear it with pride!!
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 can come and read your post! For example, in your post you can write “This post is part of SoCS:” and then copy and paste the URL found in your address bar at the top of this post into yours. Your link will show up in my comments, for everyone to see. The most recent pingbacks 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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November 8, 2014 at 6:10 pm
Holy cow! I think I finished reading all the posts. 🙂
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November 8, 2014 at 6:12 pm
WOW! You’re doing a lot better than I am. I have a kid here with other ideas on what I should be doing with my time today. 😛
Thanks so much for reading, Deborah! 😀
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November 8, 2014 at 1:12 pm
The link doesn’t work today, so here it comes: http://irenedesign2011.com/2014/11/08/chances-or-risks-this-post-is-part-of-socs/
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November 8, 2014 at 1:14 pm
Weird. I have no idea why it doesn’t sometimes. Thanks for checking, Irene, and thanks for the comment with the link included. 🙂
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November 8, 2014 at 1:05 pm
I feel bad because I forgot to add SoCS to my title. Sorry.
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November 8, 2014 at 1:06 pm
No problem, as long as the link is here people will know. 😀
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November 8, 2014 at 1:28 pm
Okay. It’s there 🙂
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November 8, 2014 at 5:44 pm
Me too 😦
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November 8, 2014 at 5:55 pm
I don’t think it’s really that important, especially if you tag it either SoCS or Stream of Consciousness Saturday (or both) and put your link in the comments then you’ll still be found by people who read them. I’m finding out that there are actually people who read a lot of the posts but don’t participate. My friend John does, and he doesn’t even have a blog. Anyway, as long as you’re getting the connections, that’s the main thing. 🙂
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November 8, 2014 at 6:08 pm
O.K. I have been tagging so it should be work. I will try to remember next week.
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November 8, 2014 at 9:58 am
Here’s Mine : Anniversary Dinner
Hope I got my bot right!
Here’s mine: Anniversary Dinner
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November 8, 2014 at 10:04 am
I didn’t see my ping below. But now I do. It actually worked this time!
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November 8, 2014 at 11:06 am
I wonder if it take a while to show up.
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November 8, 2014 at 1:33 pm
They used to before I changed my settings to allow anyone to comment on my blog, but now it should be instantaneous.
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November 8, 2014 at 1:33 pm
Yay! 😀
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November 8, 2014 at 8:31 am
I had some fun exploring my relationship with these words. Thanks for the prompt.
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November 8, 2014 at 1:31 pm
Glad you had fun! 😀
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November 8, 2014 at 4:07 am
Who knew that my response to this prompt will come through dried tears! Thank you, I feel better.
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November 8, 2014 at 1:34 pm
Stream of consciousness writing can surprise us sometimes! 🙂 Glad you were able to use it to get through something. 🙂
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November 9, 2014 at 5:03 am
Thank you!
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November 7, 2014 at 3:20 pm
All I can think of now is Bibbity Bobbity Boo!
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November 7, 2014 at 6:29 pm
Ha! Why didn’t I think of that? Hehe.
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November 7, 2014 at 12:33 pm
Looking forward to it. Thanks, Linda.
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November 7, 2014 at 6:28 pm
Wonderful! 😀
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November 7, 2014 at 11:34 am
Poetry is what usually comes up from me when these prompts come.
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November 7, 2014 at 6:27 pm
Then poet away, my dear. 😀
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November 7, 2014 at 10:39 am
I really like these prompts. I don’t participate much because my entire life is just one stream of consciousness after another, but I enjoy reading what others come up with 😉
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November 7, 2014 at 6:27 pm
Thanks, IB! Any time you decide to join in, go right ahead! 😀
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