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The Friday Reminder and Prompt for #SoCS Feb. 8, 2025

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It’s Friday! And I’m here with your Stream of Consciousness Saturday prompt. I’ve spent more time doom scrolling in the last week than I have working on my manuscripts. I need to train myself to work before social media. Yeah, that’s the ticket. Here’s this week’s prompt:

Your Friday prompt for Stream of Consciousness Saturday is “bulk.” Use it any way you’d like. Have fun!

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!!

2019-2020 SoCS Badge by Shelley! https://www.quaintrevival.com/

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. 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 “Write about dogs”; the prompt will be more like, “Make your first sentence a question,” “Begin with the word ‘The,’” or will simply be a single word to get you 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 all of them! 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 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!

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Author: Linda G. Hill

There's a writer in here, clawing her way out.

43 thoughts on “The Friday Reminder and Prompt for #SoCS Feb. 8, 2025

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  6. Shan Burton's avatar

    It’s me, Shan, in a strange blog-suit because I’ve lost access to my main blog (at least for now). But it’s time to speak up and out. Happy to see so many familiar names here!

    Here’s my post:

    https://timeinyourpocket.com/socs-bulk-in-politics-and-my-weekend/

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  12. Lakshmi Bhat's avatar

    Yes, better to finish what we have to do before social media. All about rice. https://mukhamani.wordpress.com/2025/02/08/socs-feb-8-2025/

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  24. JoAnna's avatar

    Doom scrolling can be hazardous to our health. I used to have a sticky note on my laptop – something like, write first! Now I check my email first, but that can be risky. Good luck, Linda!

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  28. Dan Antion's avatar

    No looking at social media or the news before writing or before bed. And, in the case of the news, not before dinner. I hope you have a nice easy weekend.

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  29. Laura Newhampshire's avatar

    You’ve mentioned doom scrolling a few times, and I’ve chuckled each time you have, as I sigh and realize that I, too, have been doing much the same (which even surfaced on my blog). It is so hard not to, as things keep hitting the news and Internet with astounding speed, but… yeesh. I have to keep telling myself to breathe, walk away, and put some thoughts into a container for later.

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