Photo: Chess pieces – a black king (laying down) and a white queen (standing). Caption reads: “It is the mark of a fine chess player to tip over his own king when he sees that defeat is inevitable, no matter how many moves remain in the game.”
― A Gentleman in Moscow
(I just finished listening to this novel today. I highly recommend it.)
If you would like to participate in this prompt, feel free to use the “One-Liner Wednesday” title in your post, and if you do, you can ping back here to help your blog get more exposure.
Here are the simple JusJoJan Rules:
1. Just Jot It January starts January 1st, but it’s never too late to join in! Here, we run on the honour system; the “jot it” part of JusJoJan means that anything you jot down, anywhere (it doesn’t have to be a post, it can even be a grocery list), counts as a “jot.” If it makes it to your blog that day, great! If it waits a week to get from a sticky note to your screen, no problem!
2. I’ll post prompts at 2am my time (GMT -5). The prompt will be the word in quotation marks in the title of my 2am post. You don’t have to follow the prompt every day, but that will be where you leave your link for others to see. You’ll get a prompt for every day except Wednesday, when the prompt is simply my One-Liner Wednesday and on Saturday, when your prompt will be the Friday Reminder and Prompt for #SoCS, which will appear at about 9:30am Friday. Each prompt post will include the rules.
2 a) The rules that I’ve made for myself (but don’t always follow) for “One-Liner Wednesday” are:
1. Make it one sentence.
2. Try to make it either funny or inspirational.
3. Use our unique tag #1linerWeds.
4. Add our lovely badge to your post for extra exposure!
5. Have fun!
3. Please ping back or link to the daily prompt. To ping back, just copy the URL from the daily prompt post, and paste it anywhere in your post. Check to make sure your link shows up where you want it to, and go back occasionally to see other bloggers’ entries – the more you visit others, the more they’ll visit you! Note: A) The newest pingbacks will be at the top of the comments section. B) Ping backs only work if you’re blogging on WordPress. Everyone else must paste a link manually.
4. Tag your post JusJoJan and/or #JusJoJan.
5. Write anything! Any length will do! It can even be a photo or a drawing – you’re going to title it, right? There’s your jot!
6. If your post is NSFW, do not ping back. Please leave your link in the comments with a warning.
7. If you’d like to, use the JusJoJan badge so that others can find your post more easily.
8. Have fun!
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January 24, 2021 at 11:59 am
Great quote! ❤ ❤
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January 21, 2021 at 10:27 am
Loved that book! And I agree that the line couldn’t be more appropriate. ❤
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January 20, 2021 at 5:54 pm
https://paperkutzs.com/2021/01/20/one-liner-weds-jus-jo-jan-the-20th-defeat/
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January 20, 2021 at 4:58 pm
I thought it’d be something like “Tight shoes hurt defeat.”
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January 20, 2021 at 5:29 pm
Ah yes, the agony of defeat. And delegs. Hehe.
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January 20, 2021 at 4:06 pm
One Liner Wednesday-#1linerweds
I used to like people and people ruined it
https://lindaghill.com/2021/01/20/one-liner-wednesday-jusjojan-the-20th-2021-defeat/
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January 20, 2021 at 4:10 pm
Don’t think I did this right…newbie here.
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January 20, 2021 at 4:15 pm
You were close! The idea is to write a one-liner post on your own blog and leave a link for your post here in the comments. But if you don’t want to post on your blog, this works. 😀
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January 20, 2021 at 5:17 pm
Oh ok…is that what pinging is?
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January 20, 2021 at 5:31 pm
Pinging is when you paste the URL of my post into your post. The comments you see here that are just links are the results of people doing that.
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January 20, 2021 at 5:39 pm
ok got it…thanks!
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January 20, 2021 at 3:15 pm
Sorry, Linda, I did it again — made changes and my post pinged back twice. Really enjoying your jusjojan — what you’ve been writing, and what others have contributed. Great fun!
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January 20, 2021 at 4:15 pm
Thanks, Lorraine! 😀
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January 20, 2021 at 12:29 pm
I always wondered why they did that! Good one, Linda!
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January 20, 2021 at 10:25 am
Great one-liner, Linda. Very apropos given the day.
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January 20, 2021 at 9:06 am
Great post😊😊😊 God bless you 🙏
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January 20, 2021 at 8:53 am
That’s a timely one-liner, Linda.
Thanks for helping to keep us sane with four year’s worth of prompts to keep our minds off of the problems.
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January 20, 2021 at 4:17 pm
Glad to help any way I can, Dan. 🙂
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January 20, 2021 at 8:33 am
https://mmastorytime.com/2021/01/20/one-liner-wednesday-off-limits/
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January 20, 2021 at 4:17 am
Excellent Linda 💜💜💜
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