As a special feature for February’s Stream of Consciousness Saturday, The Bee and I have decided to collaborate! As you may know, on her site – Just Fooling Around with Bee – a month-long blog-hop is going on in recognition of Love, called “Love Is In Da Blog.” The week 4 prompt is Love in friendship. This, conveniently, ties in to my own special occasion this week.
This weekend, the Stream of Consciousness Saturday prompt is one year old! Since its humble beginnings, starting with the rules, I have met SO many new bloggers who I now consider to be friends. And let me tell you, I appreciate each and every one of you! I’m so happy that my prompt has led many others to connect as well and I’m constantly amazed by the wonderful posts that have come out of this event. Thank you all so much for joining in over the past year!! Here’s to the next!!! 😀 Without further ado:
Your Friday prompt for Stream of Consciousness Saturday is: acquaint and/or friend. Use one, use both, add prefixes or suffixes, but whatever you do, have fun!
After you’ve written your Saturday post tomorrow, please link it here at this week’s prompt page and check to make sure it’s here in the comments so others can find it and see your awesome Stream of Consciousness post. Anyone can join in! And don’t forget, as a special feature this month, you can also ping back to “Love Is In Da Blog”! Find the prompt here and get the badge: https://justfoolingaroundwithbee.wordpress.com/2015/02/22/love-is-in-da-blog-february-ping-back-post-rulessuggestions-week-4/
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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March 1, 2015 at 2:54 am
https://tracesofthesoul.wordpress.com/2015/03/01/family-of-friends/
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February 28, 2015 at 6:20 pm
Hi Linda and Bee, my effort:
http://summerstommy.com/2015/02/28/socs-february-2815-acquaintfriend/
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February 28, 2015 at 5:59 pm
A year has passed already!! How time flies when you are having fun. Happy Birthday, Linda, and thank you for hosting these prompts…it is such a great way to get the juices running to “free write” like this:) Merci du fond de mon Coeur! x
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February 28, 2015 at 6:41 pm
I know, right? It feels like just yesterday! Thanks very much Oliana. 🙂 I’m so happy you’re still enjoying the prompts. 😀
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February 28, 2015 at 6:42 pm
I am…when I do not participate it is truly because I am in a brain fog. Stay warm!!
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February 28, 2015 at 6:43 pm
You too! It’s awful out there!
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February 28, 2015 at 9:14 pm
Yep, hence only one outtting on foot to do groceries this week and walking on street coming back. I stared down the cars who tried to scare me…there were 2 lanes…and I couldn’t budge my little cart on icy bumpy sidewalks.
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February 28, 2015 at 9:15 pm
It’s scary out there! Stay safe!
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February 28, 2015 at 9:27 pm
I will, don’t worry. My son is visiting after his late hockey game:) We are both night owls:)
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February 28, 2015 at 4:43 pm
Ok your stream of consciousness prompt helped me tackle an assignment from the Writing 201 poetry challenge.
Just to put it in context we had to write an ode and the prompt was drawer, as in something you find in a drawer and prompts a reaction.
I didn’t exactly understand the difference between the elegy and the ode so I searched. I’m not sure I got it entirely but the two things that stuck with me about the ode is:
1) it’s meant to be put to music
2) the first paragraph is meant to be sung in the highest notes to reflects the highest level of enthusiasm/drama in the entire poem.
So that’s what I did, or rather what I tried to do. I imagine the pitch of that first verse to be high – almost Queen of the Night in the Enchanted Flute by Mozart high – and then the rest dropping slowly to be more in the mezzo or alto range. And no I’m not sure whether the narrator is a man or woman… I started this one thinking it was written from her point of view and ended with someone else. That’s stream of consciousness poetry writing for you 😛
So thanks again for a lovely prompt although these days everything I write is somehow depressive 😛 .
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February 28, 2015 at 5:20 pm
PS: Happy SoCS anniversary 😀 and thank you for giving us ideas to write 🙂
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February 28, 2015 at 6:57 pm
Thank you, and you’re very welcome. 😀
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February 28, 2015 at 6:55 pm
I’m so glad I was able to inspire you. 🙂 Your poem sounds intriguing – I look forward to reading it! Thanks for the background on it. 😀
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February 28, 2015 at 3:52 pm
Alas, Linda, I did not create an entry for this weeks SoCS. I had good intentions, but then I got sidetracked this morning by some articles I read in a magazine and decided, instead, to post a rant about that. But I will be back here for One-Liner Wednesday and next week’s SoCS.
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February 28, 2015 at 8:48 pm
Ahh, you’re slippin’ my dear! hehe 😉 No problem. I’ll look forward to your posts next week. 😀
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February 28, 2015 at 2:15 pm
Congratulations. I love this opportunity for stream of consciousness writing and that there are no special requirements for number of words and that it is so open to our creativity.
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February 28, 2015 at 10:50 pm
Thank you, Deborah. 🙂 I’m so glad you’re enjoying the prompts. 🙂
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February 28, 2015 at 12:29 pm
Happy SoCS Birthday Linda and now year 2 🙂
I think your cooperation with Bee have been fun also.
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February 28, 2015 at 9:59 am
Happy SoCS birthday Linda 🙂 When I first started it, I wasn’t sure if I will be a regular, but I have come to love it. Thank you for that 😀
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February 28, 2015 at 9:48 am
Happy Birthday! Wishing you many more wonderful streams of consciousness!
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February 27, 2015 at 8:49 pm
Happy SoCS Anniversary! It’s a great prompt, directed yet flexible. I hope to be more active in the second year. Thanks for this wonderful prompt series.
On a personal note, I’ve been having trouble writing this week, and I’ve been anticipating this post to perhaps kick me into action. I really appreciate your effort and your consistency. You’re always here with this prompt. 🙂
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February 27, 2015 at 9:39 am
Happy First Anniversary 🙂 🙂 I have been off the grid these past few prompts but this one steals into my very heart! A dam of thoughts have burst in my head and I hope my fingers can catch up!
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February 27, 2015 at 5:58 pm
Wonderful! I look forward to reading your post. 😀 Thanks very much, Prajakta!
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February 27, 2015 at 9:12 am
Happy Birthday SoCS and thanks so much for tying in with “Love Is In Da Blog”. It has made my blog hop extra special. Tomorrow is the last day of “Love Is In Da Blog” so we can celebrate double 🙂
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February 27, 2015 at 5:57 pm
We can! Thanks so much for your kind words, Bee. 🙂 Your own prompt ideas have added to SoCS too! 😀
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February 28, 2015 at 3:13 am
Wonderful ~ that was the intention 🙂
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February 27, 2015 at 8:55 am
Happy SoCS birthday! That’s awesome! It’s my favorite prompt because it provides such a wonderful environment for “just writing.” Thanks, Linda! ❤
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February 27, 2015 at 5:56 pm
Thanks so much, Kellie. 🙂 I know we met through A-Z April, but I’m happy you stuck around for SoCS. 😀
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February 28, 2015 at 8:15 pm
I am also happy to have stuck around! You have a great bunch of people who SoCS and I love reading them all 🙂 I’m already planning to do A to Z again, it was a great thing the first time around!
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February 28, 2015 at 8:18 pm
I’d love to do A-Z again this year, but I’m sooo busy. Not sure if I need the stress.
Yeah… I’ll probably do it anyway. 😛
We do have a great community of SoCS’ers, don’t we? 😀
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February 28, 2015 at 8:20 pm
absotively! 🙂
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