“Why do so many people throw away the potential for something amazing?” ~M
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Thoughts and Perspectives From the Mind of a Common Girl
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Good morning all my fellow blogging friends,
I hope you’ve all been doing well and I’m excited to be able to bring you another month of writing inspiration. Hopefully March brings warmer weather, and much needed encouragement to those of us who go dormant, and end up hibernating during the winter months. I desperately need some sunshine! Here’s to hoping we all see some soon! ~M xoxo
1. A new fallen snow
2. The last link
3. Panicky and peculiar
4. Sorry, my cat fell off the cupboard
5. Delirious intentions
6. Viable creations
7. Self-centered situations
8. The boy without a name
9. Pandemonium of a new kind
10. Bristly, yet sensible
11. Fact or fiction
12. Swimming through raspberry jello
13. Stranded in Burma
14. Foolish incantations
15. Springtime splendor
16. Invincible endeavors
17. Douglas O’Malley
18. Burping and bellyflops
19. Silver sand
20. The kissing curse
21. Rocket launching ladies
22. The hipster hygienist
23. Nicked nails
24. Creator of days
25. Dimly lit distractions
26. A moose on the loose
27. Squinting through sky blue
28. The widow’s web
29. Partly paisley
30. Suffocated in sinopia
31. Unreplenished urges
If you’re new to prompt writing, and don’t really understand how to use the prompts, please consider the following writing exercise.
Settle into your favorite place in the house with a hot drink to warm your waking bones. Once you’ve warmed up a bit; grab your journal, a trusty pen, and a timer. Then, set your timer for ten minutes and begin writing about one of the prompts. Don’t worry about spelling, punctuation, neatness, or anything like that; just write! Write about anything and everything that comes to your mind, and don’t stop until the ten minutes are up.
I often find myself writing short stories or poems during those ten minutes, but you can write about anything you like. And don’t be alarmed if what you’ve written doesn’t quite make sense. The whole idea behind doing this exercise is to get your mind ready and working so that you can begin your day. Just think of it as exercise for your brain, and once you’ve done your ten minutes of writing, you’ll feel more prepared to tackle the rest of your day.
As always, I will be writing and posting over on my other blog, which can be found here. So please come visit me if you get a chance, and hopefully I can keep up with all of you!
And one last thing before I forget! I made a quick tutorial for those of you who have been having trouble trying to figure out how to Pingback your posts. Please go here, if you’d like to view the tutorial. 😉
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Here are the new writing prompts for July. I hope you’ll enjoy these as much as I enjoyed coming up with them. Have a great month of writing everyone! ~M xo
And, if you’re new to the idea of writing with the help of prompts, here’s what I like to do with them…
To begin, settle into your favorite place in the house with a hot drink to warm your waking bones. Once you’ve warmed up a bit; grab your journal, a trusty pen, and a timer. Then, set your timer for ten minutes and begin writing about one of the prompts listed below. Don’t worry about spelling, punctuation, neatness, or anything like that; just write! Write about anything and everything that comes to your mind, and don’t stop until the ten minutes are up.
I often find myself writing short stories or poems during those ten minutes, but you can write about anything you like. And don’t be alarmed if what you’ve written doesn’t quite make sense. The whole idea behind doing this exercise is to get your mind ready and working so that you can begin your day. Just think of it as exercise for your brain, and once you’ve done your ten minutes of writing, you’ll feel more prepared to tackle the rest of your day.
As always, I will be writing and posting over on my other blog, which can be found here. So please come visit me if you get a chance! 😉
Brianna – “Mom, is shitted a word?”
Me – “No honey…”
Brianna – “Darn it! I was really looking forward to using that word!”
Me – “🙄😳😲”
Santa’s arrived early this year, for all of you writers out there who are in need of some unconventional writing prompts. So here’s my gift to you…
Merry Christmas to all and to all a quirky night! Lol… 😉 ~M xo
1. Weaving words
2. Thistles and thorns
3. Vermicious Knids
4. Dripping with drudgery
5. Tales of tinsel
6. Conspicuous coincidences
7. Dingle berries
8. Perfectly imperfect
9. Dances with elves
10. Swayed and seduced
11. Oranges aren’t apples
12. Speckled candy
13. Variegated vessels
14. Chestnuts and chisels
15. Stripped and polished
16. Dreidels and ladles
17. Maneuvering the muck
18. Pish posh
19. Chipped edges
20. Idiotic endeavors
21. Pesky punctuation
22. Beanut Putter
23. Cryptic messages
24. Crinkled corn
25. Frosty goes wild
26. Fried green potatoes
27. Royal Excursions
28. Agnostic acorns
29. Gritty globs of goodness
30. Drawing the line
31. Bitter Bones
*Don’t forget to link back to this page if you decide to participate! I’d love to be able to read what you’ve written and share your links with everyone else at the end of the month.
And as usual… all of my poems can be found over on my new blog at: Her Writing Haven. Please come on over for a visit! 😉
So there I was, reading aloud the features that come with the new iPhone X…
“The super retina display dazzles the eyes and employs techniques to precisely follow the curves of the design all the way to the elegantly rounded corners. The first OLED screen that rises to the standards. Familiar gestures make navigation natural and intuitive. Instead of pressing a button, a single swipe takes you home from anywhere. A larger and faster 12MP sensor. A new color filter with Deeper pixels, etc…”
And then my sweet and very innocent 16 yr. old daughter, who obviously picked up on the bolded words above, says to me…
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~Brianna Cook (age 16)
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In a recent conversation, my 16 yr old daughter said this…
“Mom, I’m such a weird teen. Most kids my age are off partying, and here I am sitting here with you, pondering the philosophical meaning of life.”
I almost died from laughing so hard. Lol… 😉
I’m craving a hot drink right now and once and awhile I crave a stiff drink, and when a woman says something like this, you have to kind of wonder what she means by that. 😉
Sorry… it’s midnight. I get silly this time of night. Lol…
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I saw this on a church sign a couple of months ago and thought it was quite funny. The sign said…
I was thinking about the many ways this could be interpreted, and it’s still making me laugh.
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