Holy Days of the Week, Batman, it’s Friday! Time for your Stream of Consciousness Saturday prompt! It’s my youngest’s 16th birthday on Sunday and he’s having 3–count ’em–3 parties in four days. I’ve been partying like a mad-mom for the last two days and it ain’t been pretty. Anyway, that’s my excuse for being so late, and I’m sticking to it. So. This week’s prompt:
Your Friday prompt for Stream of Consciousness Saturday is: “ho.” Find a word with the two letters–“ho”–in that order, and use it in your post. Enjoy!
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!
To make your post more visible, use our new 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,” “Begin with the word ‘The’,” or simply a single word to get your started.
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. NOTE: Pingbacks only work from WordPress sites. If you’re self-hosted or are participating from another host, such as Blogger, please leave a link to your post in the comments below.
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. As a suggestion, tag your post “SoCS” and/or “#SoCS” for more exposure and more views.
8. Have fun!
October 24, 2016 at 10:55 am
I’m continuing my ongoing web serial and utilizing this prompt: http://wp.me/p4le2s-1Hy
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October 24, 2016 at 11:09 pm
Thanks for using the prompt, Mark! 🙂
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October 23, 2016 at 12:47 am
I would love to participate but am not sure how to do a ping back. I’m a relic who doesn’t get out much. snickers loudly.
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October 23, 2016 at 12:56 am
Haha! You and I are alike in that regard. 🙂 But I can tell you how to do a pingback!
All you need do is copy what’s in the address bar at the top of this post and paste it anywhere in your own post. That’s it. 🙂 I look forward to reading your post! 😀
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October 23, 2016 at 1:03 am
ok, thank you, I’ll give that a try. see how it goes. woot
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October 23, 2016 at 1:07 am
Ok, I tried, I see your https://lindaghill.com/ at the bottom of my post, not sure if that takes mine to yours! lol
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October 23, 2016 at 9:17 am
It’s this link: https://lindaghill.com/2016/10/21/the-friday-reminder-and-prompt-for-socs-oct-2216/
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October 23, 2016 at 1:20 am
So, I have to ask, did that work?
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October 23, 2016 at 1:32 am
I’m a little unsure what Friday’s topic was, and as soon as you can explain, I’ll try to do the ping back, lol wish me luck!
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October 23, 2016 at 9:15 am
It’s at the top of this page in blue lettering. All you need do is find a word (or as many words as you’d like) with the letters “ho” in that order, and base your post on it. Have fun! 🙂
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October 22, 2016 at 11:59 pm
This is my first time posting here. My pingback didn’t work, or I don’t see it…better glasses in need? Any way, here is my effort. Thanks! https://saschadarlington.me/2016/10/22/soc-ho/
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October 23, 2016 at 12:04 am
Thank you for participating, Sascha! 🙂 Your pingback is there – I think sometimes they take a couple of minutes to show up. 😛 Hey, two links is better than none. 😀
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October 23, 2016 at 3:03 pm
Sorry. I did go back and there it was. WordPress doesn’t always like my pingbacks. lol 🙂
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October 24, 2016 at 11:19 pm
I think sometimes WordPress doesn’t like any of us. 😛 Haha!
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October 22, 2016 at 3:51 pm
I found you via Willow. Had great fun in writing this piece, test your brain. Here’s my link:
https://strangegoingsonintheshed.wordpress.com/2016/10/22/howl-of-terror-microfiction-socs/
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October 22, 2016 at 4:19 pm
Wonderful! Thanks so much for joining in. 😀
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October 22, 2016 at 5:54 pm
I look forward to the next prompt.
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October 22, 2016 at 6:40 pm
Yay! I’m here every week. Looking forward to reading your post this week still! 🙂
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October 22, 2016 at 10:58 am
Free verse lends itself nicely to SOCS.
Roll tape with mouths agape – Is anyone filming this crazy nightmare?
Thanks for another great prompt!
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October 22, 2016 at 6:45 pm
You’re welcome. 🙂 I’ve found the same thing!
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October 22, 2016 at 10:10 am
Hi all. Have a great weekend. Thaks Linda as always. I had a lot of fun writing this. https://daisyinthewillows.wordpress.com/2016/10/22/flew-went-my-imagination/#comment-6875
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October 22, 2016 at 6:46 pm
Glad you enjoyed it, Daisy. 🙂 Have a lovely weekend!
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October 22, 2016 at 9:22 am
I had a lot of fun with this. Who knew I had so many ho’s in my soc vocabulary.
hope you survive the horrendous number of parties as host and attendee.
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October 22, 2016 at 6:47 pm
Thanks. 🙂 Glad you enjoyed the prompt!
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October 22, 2016 at 9:27 pm
Now I’ve got ho hooting through my noggin. My character should have danced the hoochie-koochie while the men in the audience hooted.
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October 22, 2016 at 8:39 am
I see that I’m not the only one who thought of ho, ho, ho 🙂
That came to my mind first thing especially since we are just a few weeks away 🙂
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October 22, 2016 at 6:48 pm
Shhhh!!!! 😉 hehe.
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October 22, 2016 at 7:39 am
Here’s my link: http://waffle-with-wendy.blogspot.co.uk/2016/10/socs-221016-holiday-time.html
Hope you enjoy the birthday celebrations after all the hard prep work.
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October 22, 2016 at 6:48 pm
Thanks, Wendy. 🙂
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October 22, 2016 at 6:55 am
Hi Linda, hope things are great at your end. Thanks for the lovely prompt. Here is my contribution. Tks, Neel https://neelwritesblog.wordpress.com/2016/10/22/neelwritesblogsocs-oct-2216-ho22102016/
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October 22, 2016 at 6:49 pm
Thank you, Neel. 🙂
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October 22, 2016 at 12:29 am
Have fun with the birthday celebrations!
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October 22, 2016 at 6:51 pm
Thank you, Deborah. 🙂
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October 21, 2016 at 9:49 pm
*snickers*
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October 21, 2016 at 10:16 pm
😀 😉 ❤
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October 21, 2016 at 8:25 pm
https://finallyawriter.com/2016/10/21/the-friday-reminder-and-prompt-for-socs-oct-2216/
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October 21, 2016 at 7:18 pm
Ho ho ho!
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October 21, 2016 at 7:39 pm
Hahaha! You win, Willow! I’ve been waiting for someone to write that! 😀 ❤
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October 22, 2016 at 2:58 am
You can always depend on me to do the predictable!! Linda 😁 xxx
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October 22, 2016 at 6:51 pm
Hehehehe! 😀 ❤
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