Our prompt word for January 24th is “ideal.” Thanks so much, Astrid, for the great prompt!
I like playing solitaire.
Because no matter what …
I deal.
See what I did there?
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The prompt word for January 23rd is “paintbrush.” Thanks go to Paula for the colourful prompt!
When we paint our woes with broad brushstrokes, we don’t really convey everything we’re living.
Ugh, I have so much to do!
It tells a story, but the behind-the-scenes to-do list is not anyone has time to hear about. They have their own to-dos.
Ack! Everything hurts!
It might not be accurate, but it conveys the message better than an inventory of all our aches and pains. And just about everyone can agree that aches and pains are all-consuming when we have them.
But when we paint our accomplishments and happiness, it’s usually more defined.
When was the last time anyone said to you Everything is wonderful! And when they did, could you relate? If not, ask yourself why not?
Because there’s almost always something we didn’t get around to doing. There’s almost always a discomfort or pain somewhere.
But if you take the reverse, when there’s so much to do, isn’t there something you’ve accomplished somewhere along the way?
When everything hurts, is there not usually something that doesn’t?
We let the negative keep us from painting our happiness in broad brushstrokes, but the positive rarely gets in the way of the broad strokes of our woes.
Let’s change that. Right now.
Repeat after me:
Everything is wonderful!
And let’s do that every day.
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The prompt word for January 22nd is “seasonal.” Thanks go to Kaye for the wonderful prompt!
I’m starting to realize, rather belatedly, that my writing is largely seasonal.
I try to do NaNoWriMo every fall, so that’s when I write the bulk of my novels. Also during the spring and summer NaNo camps, though I’ve never attempted 50,000 words during one of those.
Blogging daily has become a January thing.
I used to do it every day, but then a career or two happened, and I seem to run out of either time or steam by the time I get around to doing much else.
Seems whatever I do, though, I can usually do it in my pajamas.
Hibernation season is all year round.
P.S. My neck is a bit better today. 🙂
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The prompt word for January 20th was “phantom.” Thanks, Tuba, for the fun prompt!
I’m a day late with this one, in part because I’ve had a stunningly busy couple of days, and in part because of a crippling stiff neck.
It plagued me all day yesterday, but it was better this morning. Now it’s back, probably due to the fact that I’m stressed over not getting everything done.
It’s a circle.
The circle of life.
Is a pain in the neck. Apparently.
But really, I can pretty much count on some kind of ailment showing up when I’m busy.
Grrr…
See what I did up there, though?
Now I don’t have to write a separate SoCS post.
Sneaky me.
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The prompt word of the day today is “complaint.” Thanks, John for the interesting prompt!
It’s inherent: as a mom, you’re the complaint department.
And if you’re a single mom, you don’t even have an employee (dad) to take over when the complaints pile up.
Because we all know being a mom is a thankless job, most of the time.
It doesn’t pay very well, either. Especially when the cuddles dry up and the customers no longer fit on your lap.
Wow. That simile got weird fast, didn’t it?
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Once upon a time … You’d think this would be easy for me, wouldn’t you?
I tell stories all the time.
And yet, every single time I write one, I ask myself, Is this autobiographical? Am I writing about me?
I don’t want to write about me when I write fiction, so I try to steer away from it.
But I think it’s a common thing for writers to wonder. How else can we write aside from relaying what we’ve observed about the world? And how much of those things, those experiences, has seeped in to make us who we are?
GAH!
I didn’t want to get philosophical with this.
Who came up with this prompt anyway?!?
Oh.
I did.
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Our prompt word of the day today is “donut.” Thank you so much, Liz Husebye Hartmann for your fun suggestion!
Okay, today for me is going to be a true jot.
Ready?
I have an important question:
Is a Bundt cake really just a huge donut?
Discuss.
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First, I want to say thank you to Maggie for her wonderful prompt of the day, the word “periwinkle.”
I’ve never had a periwinkle plant.
Nor do I believe I’ve ever owned a piece of clothing in the colour periwinkle.
But I’ve always wanted to write a story about a character named Periwinkle.
Periwinkle would be a man of medium stature and medium age.
He would wear wire-rimmed glasses … or a monocle.
And he would have a posh British accent.
Periwinkle would often wear brown woolen suits and speak with his forefingers linked behind his back.
He would be polite, to the point, and smile infrequently.
At home in his quaint English cottage, he would have a collection of frogs in all shapes, sizes, and made from all different materials. But his pride and joy would be the ones he stuffed himself.
Yes, dear Periwinkle would wish he’d been a taxidermist. But not of large animals, but rather, small things. Like frogs, and mice, and even crickets. Thus, the need for a monocle. But I digress.
Periwinkle would have had only one love, a girl named Daisy, in his third year of school, when he was eight. But during a science experiment, he would have managed somehow to turn her into a frog.
Which would be where his obsession with frogs comes from.
Periwinkle would be a fascinating character.
So says I.
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Today’s prompt, “endurance,” was chosen by Destiny. Thanks so much for the awesome word, Destiny!
Okay, so I’ve got a slew of planners now to keep me on track this year. A SLEW, I tell you!
The most recent one is an hourly one that goes from 6am to 11pm. I would have liked it to go later, but hey, maybe it will entice me to go to bed before 2am, eh?
Like, the day is finished at 11. My planner says so!
All this means is I’m not just organizing my time, I’m micro-organizing my time. Like the CEO of the company I am.
Can’t wait to go golfing! That’s what CEOs do, right?
Anyway …
We’ll see how much endurance I have for this.
Because it’s only 9 days into the year. 356 to go.
I feel like I’ve just begun a marathon.
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I’d like to say thanks so much to Jezzie G. for his awesome prompt of the day, “friendship.”
I read somewhere once that I’m a typical Aquarius in that I’m able to remain friends with people even if I don’t talk to them for years. And for the most part, it’s been true. I can easily pick up where I left off.
Take my best friend, for instance. Okay, so he’s an Aquarius too—his birthday is the day after mine—but we didn’t talk to each other for, like, ten years at a time. We drifted apart after high school and met up for dinner about ten years later, then there were another two ten-year or so gaps when we both kinda fell off the face of the earth, then he moved to a house around the corner from me about ten years ago and we’ve seen each other regularly ever since.
Except with COVID. He came over for breakfast yesterday for the first time in almost three years. Breakfasts together were a daily habit when he first moved here.
But aside from that, he’s one of my only friends … Until I get together with someone else I haven’t seen for ten years, I guess.
Is that weird?
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