Wait, is it Friday? I think it’s Friday, so I’m here with your Stream of Consciousness Saturday prompt. Thanks so much everyone for the lovely Christmas wishes. It was a busy but very merry one nonetheless, with far too much food! Here’s this week’s prompt:
Your Friday prompt for Stream of Consciousness Saturday is “plot.” 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!
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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!
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Where once I used to travel to places like the Caribbean and Japan, my trips are reduced to the distance between my house and the grocery store, Alex’s day program, and the pharmacy. And occasionally out of town for appointments.
I don’t fly—I drive or if it’s close enough, walk.
So it’s no wonder that I live much of my life outside the confines of my office by exploring online.
And lately, the world online is nothing to write home about. Or if it is, the letter home is overshadowed with fear.
I know I said I’d try to stay away from talking about politics, and I really do try to avoid doom scrolling, but it’s all getting to the point where it affects me personally. And I don’t know how much longer I’m going to be able to hold out.
I don’t want to be consumed by the news. It’s not good for my health.
The question is becoming whether I want to bury my head in the sand and be surprised by whatever is going to change my life, or if it’s better to see it coming.
But it’s weird; I can’t do nothing. I used to be able to do nothing, once upon a time. I could sit and just stare out the window, or listen to music and just daydream.
Daydreaming, I guess, has become my job. My daydreams go on paper to be shared.
Does that mean I keep none of my daydreams to myself?
No.
Because some daydreams shouldn’t be shared.
And some are just too big and don’t feel like they’d fit in the world outside of my head.
This wildly random absolutely stream of consciousness post was brought to you by Stream of Consciousness Saturday. Find the prompt here and join in! It’s fun!
I’m sitting at my desk in front of my laptop, drinking my coffee and staring at a blank page. Okay, not quite blank, because it now has two sentences on it.
Hmm.
When I’m writing a story, I often launch into it with no idea what’s going to come out. What’s going to flow from my fingertips. That’s why I love stream of consciousness writing so much, I guess. It comes natural to me.
Far more natural than, say, speaking.
If I’m faced with talking about something? If I don’t know what to say, I usually end up saying something stupid. Something that plays on repeat in my head, making me want to slap myself.
Why is it always the stupid things you say that you remember most often?
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!
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