Friday is here and so am I with your first Stream of Consciousness Saturday prompt of February, 2025. It’s been a hectic January, hasn’t it? Like, this year really seemed to start off with a lot going on. I hope things calm down in February! Here’s this week’s prompt:
Your Friday prompt for Stream of Consciousness Saturday is “spoonful.” Use it any way you’d like. Enjoy!
After you’ve written your Saturday post tomorrow, please link it here to 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 beautiful 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!!
1. Your post must be stream of consciousness writing, meaning no editing (typos can be fixed), and minimal planning on what youâre going to write.
2. Your post can be as long or as short as you want it to be. One sentence â one thousand words. Fact, fiction, poetry â it doesnât matter. Just let the words carry you along until youâre ready to stop.
3. I will post the prompt here on my blog every Friday, along with a reminder for you to join in. The prompt will be one random thing, but it will not be a particular subject. For instance, I will not say âWrite about dogsâ; the prompt will be more like, âMake your first sentence a question,â âBegin with the word âThe,â” or will simply be a single word to get you started.
4. Ping back! Itâs 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 youâre 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 personâs blog who has linked back their post. Even better, read all of them! If youâre the first person to link back, you can check back later or go to the previous week by following my category, âStream of Consciousness Saturday,â which youâll find below the âLikeâ button on my post.
6. Copy and paste the rules (if youâd like to) in your post. The more people who join in, the more new bloggers youâll 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.
Well hello there! It’s time for our final prompt for Just Jot it January 2025. Today’s prompt is more of a SoCS-style prompt in that it’s not an entire word. But don’t feel obligated to write a stream of consciousness/no editing allowed post. Plan away!
Your prompt for JusJoJan January 31st, 2025 is “fini.” Find a word that has “fini” in it and use that as your prompt word. Have fun!
If you’d like to see the entire prompt list for Just Jot it January 2025, you can find it HERE.
Be sure to come back tomorrow, February 1st, for the annual “We Did It!” post. đ
Here are the rules:
1. Please be sure to put your link in the comments on THIS POST for Friday, January 31st, 2025.
2. Just Jot It January starts January 1st, but itâs never too late to join in! Here, we run on the honour system; the âjot itâ part of JusJoJan means that anything you jot down, anywhere (it doesnât have to be a post, it can even be a grocery list), counts as a âjot.â 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!
3. Iâll post prompts at 2am my time (GMT -5). You donât have to follow the prompt every day, but that will be where you leave your link for others to see. Youâll 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.
4. 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 bloggersâ entries â the more you visit others, the more theyâll visit you! Note: A) The newest pingbacks will be at the top of the comments section. B) Ping backs only work if youâre blogging on WordPress. Everyone else must paste a link manually.
5. Tag your post JusJoJan25 and/or #JusJoJan25.
6. Write anything! Any length will do! It can even be a photo or a drawing â youâre going to title it, right? Thereâs your jot!
7. The prompts will appear every day thatâs neither a Wednesday nor a SaturdayâSaturdayâs JusJoJan prompt will be Stream of Consciousness Saturday. Youâll find the list of prompts below as they come in, which means Iâll be updating this post. Remember, you donât have to use the prompts. Please write whatever inspires you. NOTE: If your post is NSFW, do not ping back. Please leave your link in the comments with a warning.
8. If youâd like to, use the JusJoJan badge so that others can find your post more easily.
This post is part of Just Jot it January, and the prompt word, “hesitation,” comes to us from Wendy. Check out her blog here!
Hesitation has to be my biggest downfall. It happens on different levels.
At the smallest level, take this post, for instance.
I got the title and the first two lines ready to go almost two hours before I finally started writing what was going to be in the body of the post.
At the most critical level (of my writing and publishing career), I tend to hesitate before I publish a book, putting it offâputting off the steps to getting readyâsometimes for months, leaving me to scramble at the last minute to get everything set to go.
I’ve often thought this might be a form of self-sabotage.
And maybe it is.
But the core reason behind my hesitation is the NEED for everything to be perfect.
And it never is and never will be.
What sucks is my hesitation causes me actual physical pain.
Before I started writing this post, my heartburn was extremely painful. Now? After, like, four minutes of writing? It’s almost gone. In fact it was gone before I started writing this paragraph, but now that I’m thinking about it … (Stop thinking about it, Linda. It’s entirely stress-related.)
So yeah. I wish there was a cure for hesitation.
For perfectionism.
And for worrying about screwing up when I’ll never know if things will go smoothly unless I actually start doing them.
This woeful post is part of Just Jot it January! Want to join in? Just click here to get to the prompt and drop your link. It’s fun!
Welcome! I’m here with our thirtieth prompt for Just Jot it January 2025. Our prompt today comes to us from the wonderful Wendy. Thank you, Wendy! Please be sure to visit Wendy’s blog to read her posts and say hello. And follow her while youâre there if youâre not already.
Your prompt for JusJoJan January 30th, 2025 is “hesitation.” Use it any way you’d like. Enjoy!
If you’d like to see what I have so far on your prompt list and what’s to come, you can find the list HERE.
Here are the rules:
1. Please be sure to put your link in the comments on THIS POST for Thursday, January 30th, 2025.
2. Just Jot It January starts January 1st, but itâs never too late to join in! Here, we run on the honour system; the âjot itâ part of JusJoJan means that anything you jot down, anywhere (it doesnât have to be a post, it can even be a grocery list), counts as a âjot.â 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!
3. Iâll post prompts at 2am my time (GMT -5). You donât have to follow the prompt every day, but that will be where you leave your link for others to see. Youâll 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.
4. 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 bloggersâ entries â the more you visit others, the more theyâll visit you! Note: A) The newest pingbacks will be at the top of the comments section. B) Ping backs only work if youâre blogging on WordPress. Everyone else must paste a link manually.
5. Tag your post JusJoJan25 and/or #JusJoJan25.
6. Write anything! Any length will do! It can even be a photo or a drawing â youâre going to title it, right? Thereâs your jot!
7. The prompts will appear every day thatâs neither a Wednesday nor a SaturdayâSaturdayâs JusJoJan prompt will be Stream of Consciousness Saturday. Youâll find the list of prompts below as they come in, which means Iâll be updating this post. Remember, you donât have to use the prompts. Please write whatever inspires you. NOTE: If your post is NSFW, do not ping back. Please leave your link in the comments with a warning.
8. If youâd like to, use the JusJoJan badge so that others can find your post more easily.
A lovely snowy day for a walk, aka I’m one of the few people silly enough to be out in this.
Photo: A snowy sidewalk stretching off into the distance with the road on the right side of the frame and houses, fences, and trees on the left. The snow is falling gently.
If you would like to participate in this prompt, feel free to use the âOne-Liner Wednesdayâ 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 itâs never too late to join in! Here, we run on the honour system; the âjot itâ part of JusJoJan means that anything you jot down, anywhere (it doesnât have to be a post, it can even be a grocery list), counts as a âjot.â 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. Iâll 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 donât have to follow the prompt every day, but that will be where you leave your link for others to see. Youâll 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 Iâve made for myself (but donât always follow) for âOne-Liner Wednesdayâ 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!
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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 bloggersâ entries â the more you visit others, the more theyâll visit you! Note: A) The newest pingbacks will be at the top of the comments section. B) Ping backs only work if youâre blogging on WordPress. Everyone else must paste a link manually.
4. Tag your post JusJoJan25 and/or #JusJoJan25.
5. Write anything! Any length will do! It can even be a photo or a drawing â youâre going to title it, right? Thereâs your jot!
6. If your post is NSFW, do not ping back. Please leave your link in the comments with a warning.
7. If youâd like to, use the JusJoJan badge so that others can find your post more easily.
This post is part of Just Jot it January, and the prompt word, “confusion,” comes to us from Dan. Check out his blog here!
Now that I’m in my sixties, I expect to get confused occasionally. Or at least my younger self expected it.
And yeah, sometimes I do.
But when I sit down to analyze why, I realize that if I’m focused on something, I don’t get confused at all. It’s when I’m thinking too many things at once.
And yeah, maybe I used to be able to juggle a thousand things in my head and not forget why I walked into the kitchen, but in my defense, I think I’m juggling three thousand at the moment.
Take my writing for instance.
In the space of ten and a half months (November 1, 2023-September 18, 2024), I wrote three novels in a seriesâapproximately 271,000 words total. Now I’m editing two of them at the same time.
Which makes sense because although they’re about different but related main characters, the second half of Book One takes place at the same time as the first half of Book Two.
It’s all about the details. If it’s snowing on January 12th in the first book, I have to make sure it’s snowing at the same consistency on January 12th in the second book.
If information comes to light on the common enemy in both books, I have to ensure everyone is on the same page, both literally and figuratively, twice.
You can see where that might be confusing at times.
Thank goodness I have a program like Plottr to help me keep track of the timelines.
Would I have been able to keep track of all that without a program back in my twenties? Maybe. But I didn’t have all the responsibilities I have now on top of juggling two books simultaneously.
A thousand things vs. three thousand.
That’s my story and I’m sticking to it.
This enterprising post is part of Just Jot it January! Want to join in? Just click here to get to the prompt and drop your link. It’s fun!
Hello! I’m here with our twenty-eighth prompt for Just Jot it January 2025. Today, our prompt is courtesy of our dearest Dan. Thank you, Dan! Please be sure to visit Danâs blog to read his posts and say hello. And follow him while youâre there if youâre not already.
Your prompt for JusJoJan January 28th, 2025 is “confusion.” Use it any way you’d like. Have fun!
If you’d like to see what I have so far on your prompt list and what’s to come, you can find the list HERE.
Here are the rules:
1. Please be sure to put your link in the comments on THIS POST for Tuesday, January 28th, 2025.
2. Just Jot It January starts January 1st, but itâs never too late to join in! Here, we run on the honour system; the âjot itâ part of JusJoJan means that anything you jot down, anywhere (it doesnât have to be a post, it can even be a grocery list), counts as a âjot.â 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!
3. Iâll post prompts at 2am my time (GMT -5). You donât have to follow the prompt every day, but that will be where you leave your link for others to see. Youâll 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.
4. 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 bloggersâ entries â the more you visit others, the more theyâll visit you! Note: A) The newest pingbacks will be at the top of the comments section. B) Ping backs only work if youâre blogging on WordPress. Everyone else must paste a link manually.
5. Tag your post JusJoJan25 and/or #JusJoJan25.
6. Write anything! Any length will do! It can even be a photo or a drawing â youâre going to title it, right? Thereâs your jot!
7. The prompts will appear every day thatâs neither a Wednesday nor a SaturdayâSaturdayâs JusJoJan prompt will be Stream of Consciousness Saturday. Youâll find the list of prompts below as they come in, which means Iâll be updating this post. Remember, you donât have to use the prompts. Please write whatever inspires you. NOTE: If your post is NSFW, do not ping back. Please leave your link in the comments with a warning.
8. If youâd like to, use the JusJoJan badge so that others can find your post more easily.
Welcome! I’m here with our twenty-seventh prompt for Just Jot it January 2025. Our prompt today comes to us from the sensational Sadje. Thank you, Sadje! Please be sure to visit Sadje’s blog to read her posts and say hello. And follow her while youâre there if youâre not already.
Your prompt for JusJoJan January 27th, 2025 is “glamorous.” Use it any way you’d like. Enjoy!
If you’d like to see what I have so far on your prompt list and what’s to come, you can find the list HERE.
Here are the rules:
1. Please be sure to put your link in the comments on THIS POST for Monday, January 27th, 2025.
2. Just Jot It January starts January 1st, but itâs never too late to join in! Here, we run on the honour system; the âjot itâ part of JusJoJan means that anything you jot down, anywhere (it doesnât have to be a post, it can even be a grocery list), counts as a âjot.â 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!
3. Iâll post prompts at 2am my time (GMT -5). You donât have to follow the prompt every day, but that will be where you leave your link for others to see. Youâll 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.
4. 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 bloggersâ entries â the more you visit others, the more theyâll visit you! Note: A) The newest pingbacks will be at the top of the comments section. B) Ping backs only work if youâre blogging on WordPress. Everyone else must paste a link manually.
5. Tag your post JusJoJan25 and/or #JusJoJan25.
6. Write anything! Any length will do! It can even be a photo or a drawing â youâre going to title it, right? Thereâs your jot!
7. The prompts will appear every day thatâs neither a Wednesday nor a SaturdayâSaturdayâs JusJoJan prompt will be Stream of Consciousness Saturday. Youâll find the list of prompts below as they come in, which means Iâll be updating this post. Remember, you donât have to use the prompts. Please write whatever inspires you. NOTE: If your post is NSFW, do not ping back. Please leave your link in the comments with a warning.
8. If youâd like to, use the JusJoJan badge so that others can find your post more easily.
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