This post is part of Just Jot it January, and the prompt word, “jubilee,” comes to us from Liz. Check out her blog here!
I haven’t had much reason for jubilation in I can’t remember how long. We celebrate my kids’ birthdays with family dinners, and there’s the usual Christmas, Easter, and Thanksgiving celebrations, but something that qualifies as jubilee?
Stress is closer to the truth.
But I’m content with my quiet life.
My traveling days are likely all behind me, though it would be nice to get a weekend off. That would be reason for some jubilation after *checks calendar* five and a half years.
Seriously, I’m okay. đ
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Hey! I’m back with our twenty-sixth prompt for Just Jot it January 2025. Our prompt today is courtesy of the lovely Liz. Thank you, Liz! Please be sure to visit Liz’s blog to read her posts and say hello. And follow her while youâre there if youâre not already.
Your prompt for JusJoJan January 26th, 2025 is “jubilee.” 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 Sunday, January 26th, 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 my weekly prompt, Stream of Consciousness Saturday. Find the prompt and see how you can join in HERE.
You’d think that with solid goals and the steps to reach them, going after what you want and getting there would be easy. Assuming all the steps are reachable, of course.
So why is it so hard to get our desires in line with our goals? Assuming desires and goals are the same …?
Okay, let me break this down.
If I desire a cake.
My goal is getting to the store to get my cake.
The steps required are digging the car out of the driveway, clearing the snow off it, driving safely to the store and back home again with the cake.
But what if I don’t want to dig the car out?
That gets in the way of my goal, which keeps me from what I desire.
Right?
So my desires and my goal are out of line with each other.
That took a lot of brain.
And now I want cake.
Damn it.
This frustrating post is part of Just Jot it January and SoCS! Want to join in? Just click here to get to the prompt and drop your link. It’s fun!
This post is part of Just Jot it January, and the prompt word, “hobbies,” comes to us from June. Check out her blog here!
As I contemplated what to write today, I realized that long before I made my hobby of writing a business, I earned money on two other hobbies.
The first was riding horses.
I got a job taking out hour-long trail rides. Made $20 a day, but it was one of the best jobs I ever had. I did it weekends, year-round for years.
And I had a job in a wool shop where I spent all my days knitting and selling what I knitted. I got really good at tucking a ball of wool under my arm and walking around, helping customers find what they needed with my needles still going a mile a minute.
I’m lucky in that none of the hobbies I’ve earned money from have made the hobby feel like work.
Have you ever turned a hobby into a job?
This nostalgic 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!
Friday is here! And so am I with our final combination Daily 2025 Just Jot it January Prompt and Stream of Consciousness Saturday prompt of the year. This one is for SATURDAY, JANUARY 25th. I’ve said it before and I’ll say it againâthank you for joining my challenge! I appreciate you. đ
For those of you joining SoCS for the first time, it’s a little different than the other prompts in that it’s not always a whole or single word. If you’re joining in from JusJoJan and don’t want to write stream of consciousness style, no worries. It’s up to you. If you do want to try it, please check out the rules below. It’s fun! Here’s your Saturday prompt:
Your prompt for #JusJoJan the 25th and Stream of Consciousness Saturday is: “in line.” Use it any way you’d like! 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 post. Anyone can join in!
To make your post more visible, use our 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!!
You can also use the Just Jot it January badge! To find the rules for Just Jot it January, click here.
Here are the rules for SoCS:
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. 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 âWrite about dogsâ; the prompt will be more like, âMake your first sentence a question,â âBegin with the word âTheâ,” or simply a single word to get your 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 everyone’s! 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 right 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.
Welcome! I’m here with our twenty-fourth prompt for Just Jot it January 2025. Our prompt today comes to us from the wonderful mind of June. Thank you, June! Please be sure to visit June’s blog to read her posts and say hello. And follow her while youâre there if youâre not already.
Your prompt for JusJoJan January 24th, 2025 is “hobbies.” 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 Friday, January 24th, 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, “emphasis,” comes to us from Dar. Check out her blog here!
Among the things I still struggle with most when I write a novel is how much emphasis to put on a detail.
There’s a fine line between not mentioning something enough for it to come across as important to the story and mentioning it so much that the reader says “Enough already” and throws the book across the room in frustration.
At least that’s what I’d be tempted to do when I read a book with too much repetitiveness if I wasn’t reading on a device.
One of the most repetitive comments (there’s a twist) I leave for my editor when I send her my book is “Have you read this before?” Pertaining to details, not the whole book.
Because I’m far too close to the story to see my mistakes.
What it comes down to is emphasis is important. Repetitiveness sucks.
This geographically correct 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!
Hi! We’re back for our twenty-third prompt for Just Jot it January 2025. Today, our prompt is courtesy of our darling Dar. Thank you, Dar! Please be sure to visit Darâs blog to read her posts and say hello. And follow her while youâre there if youâre not already.
Your prompt for JusJoJan January 23rd, 2025 is “emphasis.” 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 Thursday, January 23rd, 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.
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.
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