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.
So I can write a novel of 50,000 words. I’ve even written one of 300,000 words.
But to create a tagline for one of those novels?
To boil the story down in a nutshell?
So very hard.
It’s easier to write the novel.
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This post is part of Just Jot it January, and today’s prompt is courtesy of Cheryl. Check out her blog here!
I did it! I managed to authenticate my email address without breaking my blog!
It took a lot of determination and more than a little confusion over all those acronyms, but it is done.
You see, Google and Yahoo are changing what they’ll accept and what they’re going to send to spam in regards to email addresses with endings that aren’t from Google (@gmail dot com) or Yahoo (@yahoo, etc.). So there was a good chance that a great majority of the lovely people who subscribe to my newsletter wouldn’t get it after February 1st, since my email address is linda@lindaghill.com.
All this to say the job had to be done.
And I did it!
This celebratory 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!
Much appreciation once again to Cheryl for the prompt!
This post is part of Just Jot it January, and the prompt for today comes to us from Carol Anne. Check out her blog here!
It’s been an interesting day for my blog. And by interesting, I mean scary. You may have noticed it kinda went down for a while.
I spent most of the morning trying to authenticate the email address that’s associated with my domain. I still don’t know whether it worked, but whatever I did in the attempt made me despair for the coming days and weeks of Just Jot it January!
Anyway, in changing the DKIM and the SPF and DNS, I apparently DNR the instructions ASAP and ended up UN-securing my website. I cried. I screamed, I … Okay, I didn’t do either of those things, but I might have yelled “WHAT THE HELL?”
And then I emailed WordPress. And they got back to me three minutes later with a fix.
So my despair was short-lived. For now. But the authentication thing? Still not happening.
If my website disappears again, know it’s just me fiddling around with things I probably shouldn’t be touching.
TYFL to my rant.
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There’s nothing like setting your alarm for 4am three days a week to make you feel grateful for getting to sleep in ’til 7:30.
Photo: A screenshot of my many alarms, beginning with 4:03am on Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays.
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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.
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This post is part of Just Jot it January, and the prompt for today is courtesy of John Holton. Check out his blog here!
I’m finding myself more and more becoming a creature of habit, and I’m comfortable with that.
Some of it comes as a result of COVID. I used to go to the grocery store whenever I needed something. But when the lockdowns started, I chose a day of the week, first thing in the morning, and got everything I needed for the entire week in one go.
And I’m still doing it almost four years later.
But it has gone beyond that.
Because I always go to the same store, there are always the same things on the shelves. Which has made it difficult to get inspired to buy different things to eat.
So I pick up the same things with little variation every week.
And most of the time, I’m comfortable with that.
This decidedly comfortable 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!
This post is part of Just Jot it January, and today’s prompt comes from Joanne. Check out her blog here!
“Writing” is the prompt of the day—it’s something I’ve written about many times here on my blog. So in deciding what to write about writing today, I’ve come up with only one idea: what writing is to me now.
I was told long ago that having a career as a novelist would inevitably turn what I love into a job.
And yes, there are days when it does feel like a bit of a grind, but they are few and far between.
When I’m in the thick of a novel and discovering, plucking out of the air the stories that my characters are telling me, writing is still every bit as much fun as it was when, as I child, I used stories as an escape from loneliness. Back then, sometimes I wrote them down, but most times I just wrote them in my head, going over and over them, starting from the beginning every time and adding a little to the end.
The joy of those stories meant that I was never really alone. I had my characters to keep me company.
In that, not a lot has changed.
And no, it’s still not so much a job as it is a way of living.
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This post is part of Just Jot it January, and today’s prompt is courtesy of Barbara. Check out her blog here!
There’s nothing better than being toasty and warm inside when it’s cold and snowy outside.
Photo: Taken on a particularly cold and blustery night with lots of snow on the ground and the trees and the rooves, and long, toothy icicles hanging from the eaves.
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This post is part of Just Jot it January, and today’s prompt is from Kaye. Check out her blog here!
I mean, I like the color olive as much as the next guy. I do. It has a way of unobtrusively bringing out other, more vibrant colors. Back when I decorated my coloring calendars with pencil, I used olive all the time to highlight the other greens.
Take the following picture as an example. See how wonderful my avocados in their bright green bag look against my olive counter top?
It’s lovely.
So you’re probably wondering by now why this post comes across more like a rant than a celebration of the color olive.
The answer to that question comes again with my 1940s olive counter tops, scratched, scarred, and burned as they are. And the fact that I reeeeaaaaly want to modernize my kitchen one day. Preferably before the 2040s.
So here’s to olive! Just not in my kitchen, please.
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