Build is the prompt this time around. There are so many places you can go with that. You could build up your confidence. Build a resume. Build a house. Be a bodybuilder perhaps. Not really sure where to go with it but as a writer, I like to think I have been building a body of work as I write each week. I have officially had my own domain for over two years now and I have been posting once or twice a week all that time so I have indeed been building a body of my work. I hope someday to make a name for myself with my writing and then maybe someone will want to go back and read all the words I have shared here. I seriously doubt that will ever happen, but at least I can find it when I want to by using the search feature. What sort of things do you build? Share them with us in the comments if you so desire.
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The prompt this week is: Build
The assignment: Write for five minutes on the word of the week. This is meant to be a free write, which means: no editing, no over-thinking, no worrying about perfect grammar or punctuation. Just write.
Where does the time go? It seems like just a few months ago I was in high school. A couple of months ago I was a new bride. Then, just a month ago, I was having the kids. Three weeks ago I turned thirty. Two weeks ago I was forty. Last week I turned fifty, a couple days ago, I turned fifty-two and before long I will turn fifty-three. Where does the time go? I still have trouble thinking of myself as a member of the over-fifty club. It doesn’t seem like I am old enough to have kids who are out on their own. It really throws me thinking of them as old enough to drink adult beverages. I enjoy my adult children, but they were great as kids too. I guess they will always be my babies. Where does the time go?
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The prompt this week is: Where
The assignment: Write for five minutes on the word of the week. This is meant to be a free write, which means: no editing, no over-thinking, no worrying about perfect grammar or punctuation. Just write.
When is it ever convenient to have a furnace that can’t keep up with an Indiana winter and low temps the likes of which we haven’t seen in 25 years? Uh…NEVER! It is especially inconvenient to have to miss physical therapy so I can hurry home from work to wait for the furnace repairman to show up. It will be even more inconvenient to have to get up early and out of the house so I can make up said physical therapy at 7am tomorrow so I can get to work just a few minutes late. I am happy to be home right now and writing this while I await the arrival of said furnace repairman, don’t get me wrong. I would rather have things stay blissfully the same and be able to go from work to physical therapy to writing group even if it does mean I am out of the house for 14 to 15 hours on Thursdays and eating dinner in my car as I drive.
I like things the same. I know what to expect. I know when I need to be at various places, and it means I don’t have to get up so early on a cold Friday morning. Yes, I realize I sound like a cranky old lady right now, but my fingers feel like icicles and my Achilles hurts from going without the boot for the last two days at work. Don’t even get me started on how inconvenient it has been wearing the boot on my right foot since July! Putting it on when I get out of the car and taking it off when I get in the car. It is big and awkward and oh so attractive. I’m ready to be out of it. I am so over the boot, already. Physical therapy has really been helping. I have to admit though that I am nervous that I will re-injure it, especially since I can’t figure out how I hurt it in the first place. One day it was fine and the next day it wasn’t, for no particular reason that I can think of. How inconvenient!
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The prompt this week is: Convenient
The assignment: Write for five minutes on the word of the week. This is meant to be a free write, which means: no editing, no over-thinking, no worrying about perfect grammar or punctuation. Just write.
What you say and do can have a significant influence on those around you. You get to decide what sort of influence you want to be on others. If you are open and welcoming when new people come to a gathering you attend regularly, they just might come back. I never thought I had much influence on others until one kind soul told me that I was the reason she came back to a gather a second time, and then became a regular. Wow! I had no idea! The fact that they shared this with me made want to try it again and again. If I’m not careful about what I say to others, and I have been told I can be blunt, I could be a bad influence and cause people I really enjoy having around to stop coming to gatherings just to avoid me and my big mouth. (Open mouth, insert foot.)
So, if I have ever offended you in any way, please forgive an old lady her big blunt mouth that seems less and less capable the older I get of editing and keeping quiet when it should. My hope is that we can all just get along and be kind to others. I hope that I can learn to speak to others as I would like them to speak to me. I want to be a good influence. Has there ever been a time when you were positively influenced by someone? Were you a good influence on someone else? Please share these stories in the comments below, I’d love to learn from all of you.
Enjoy this catchy tune on the subject:
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The prompt this week is: Influence
The assignment: Write for five minutes on the word of the week. This is meant to be a free write, which means: no editing, no over-thinking, no worrying about perfect grammar or punctuation. Just write.
It’s been a couple of weeks and I am kind of out of the habit of regularly writing already. So, let’s get better about writing a couple of times a week and see what happens.
The start of any new year makes all of us want to be better and do better at whatever our goals are. This year I struggled with choosing the right word to guide my year, and to be honest, I still don’t know what my word is for sure. I’m leaning toward “finish”. I know I want to try to follow the ideas from the article I read recently, Go Deeper, Not Wider, by David Cain, which was brought to my attention by Burgess Taylor in the video below. (THANKS, Burgess!)
Watch from about 0:55 to 2:00 to hear more about it.
Basically, the “Depth Year” is a year to use what you have instead of buying new stuff, finish projects you’ve started and set aside, learn more about subjects you are already familiar with instead of some new shiny thing. I think this will be better for me. “A big part of the Depth Year’s maturing process would be learning to live without regular doses of the little high we get when we start something new. If we indulge in it too often, we can develop a sort of “sweet tooth” for the feeling of newness itself.”
I am really excited about going in depth this year. I already know I want to dive back into genealogy research. I have been out of it for too long. I might want to branch out with my crochet for charity and do something besides hats, or maybe at least try a new pattern or two. I would also like to bring some closure to the numerous novels I have started writing and written enough to win NaNoWriMo, but never even reread after November was over. I’m not saying this is the year any of them get published, but I need to make myself read them, examine them, decide if they should be forever shut away in some dark drawer, or edited and rewritten until they are ready to query perhaps. I feel like this depth year will be a great way to practice being fearless (2017) and having confidence (2018) which were my most recent words of the year.
So I encourage you to read the article, it is only one page long. I wanted to keep it handy, so I shrunk it down, printed it out and glued it inside my new 2019 bullet journal after the yearly calendar and before the index/contents. Yes, it is that important to me. I want to reread it often to stay focused on my depth year. So, what do YOU think? Does finish sound like the right word for me in 2019? Can you think of a better choice? I’m open to suggestions, please email me directly or leave a comment below. Please subscribe using the box in the side margin so you can get notified by email when I post something here and feel free to check in and ask what I have gone in depth on. Should I choose something new each month? Each quarter maybe? If you been here long, what do you think I should choose to go in-depth on first?
This post is part of the weekly Five Minute Friday link-up!
The prompt this week is: Better
The assignment: Write for five minutes on the word of the week. This is meant to be a free write, which means: no editing, no over-thinking, no worrying about perfect grammar or punctuation. Just write.
