Today's Prompt

Write a paragraph using these three words in it somewhere...

Gnaw
Threshold
Blaring

have a good one....

Shani

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Today's Prompt

Today's prompt - do you have a personal superstition about something? - anything?  which is important to you?  - write about it.....

I am not sure what mine are, so I am going to consciously watch myself over the next few days...

ps did you spot the deliberate mistake yesterday?  - if so, care to share with us all why you think I did it? 

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Touching Base and Today's Prompt

Hi - sorry about the recent radio silence again - I am very involved in some big projects at work, my course, and various other things in my life with very heavy deadlines, so am having to use friendship time to think. 

I know this is no excuse for taking time out to write and keep in touch with friends, but on a practical note, I don't often get home until very late at night now and can't face the computer - the only strength I have is to pick up a bottle of wine....sorry.

Today's prompt is...

In the space between knowledge and the unknown, there is a place called supervision. - write about it....

Best wishes
Shani

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Time

Time was I was young,

Time was I could do anything.

 

Time is I am older,

And I know I couldn't do everything.

 

 

But I know more what I can do

Know more what it is I want

Know more what will make me happy…

 

 

Time isn't money

But it can be sooooo rich!

 

How to fill a free day

Yippee a free Saturday - a day when the sun is shining, wind is blowing, I don't HAVE to be anywhere and don't have any URGENT work on my desk and if I did - well tough.

So what am I going to do with this minor miracle - I must not waste it.... (fatally flawed first thought there - please spot) - shall I go to the Avon Spinners, Weavers and Dyers Guild meet? Nope - I would love to, but don't really want to talk to people today - just want to get my mind and thoughts all working in the same direction.

So I have sat at my computer thinking about the Great Western Writers meeting on Monday (still don't know whether this month's meeting will go ahead, something about a fire and the Library closing - on my To Do list....) and my friends at Cedar Writers (who I haven't seen for weeks due to work, Easter, and my illness) - and whilst thinking and prevaricating became inspired by the concept of an artist's/writer's journal sketchbook (which I already "sort" of do) whilst browsing through a book - and realised that I am "bombarded by people, chatter and rapidly changing surroundings......" not my words, those of Jenny Newman and Edmund Cusick -

The Writer's Workbook (Hodder Arnold Publication) by Read more about this title...

In the last few weeks I have done nothing but work, worry, meet deadlines, travel hundreds of miles, knit socks and frantically look for inspiration and the girl I used to be. I have been divining information from the ripples that other's stones have created in the pools of my life.

I am emotionally battered and exhausted from other's deadline's and needs - most of which are actually nothing to do with me or what I am trying to achieve. Sales people ringing constantly - rush, rush, rush - decision, decision, decision......

In a pompous voice - I imagine myself welling my chest up and bellowing.... "actually I don't have to either make rushed decisions or even speak to you - you are my customer not I your victim... " - oh I wish I had the guts to say that to them. But I don't - except I do tell them I am too busy and decline to continue the conversation - more often now than is perhaps polite.

So enough of the moan.... I am about making habits, not good ones, prevaricating - organising knitting patterns, rather than writing (always a bad sign).

So I am now off to finish "twiddling" and get on with some constructive stuff... I am going to write over the next few weeks a selection of short stories on and "around" the subject of knitting/spinning/weaving... I have been reading a book called "Died in the Wool" - light fluffy reading at bedtime which has inspired me (as well as sending me to sleep !!)

Died in the Wool: A Knitting Mystery (Knitting Mysteries) by Mary Kruger Read more about this title...

My close friend (well probably the only one I have left who is still speaking to me - so I think that qualifies her as close as well as long-suffering and understanding, actually to be precise I can't remember the last time we spoke - more fragmental email communications - "Hi Prairie dog here, sticking her nose out from out of her hole (self-dug) - how are you?" ) has published her latest book on Lulu this week - Mind and Motivation - well worth a read.

See you all again soon - and until the next time - keep writing !!!

Quote of the Day:
The thing I hate about an argument is that it always interrupts a good discussion.
--G.K. Chesterton

Fwd: Writing Prompt - Baddies all around us

What makes a "baddie" work? what elements and characteristics are there about your favourite bad characters that hold your interest?

I invite you to watch a programme or read a book, taking particular interest in any baddies (or those disguised as such) and then disect how they are constructed. 

Don't just think about it in your head, put pen to paper and disect consciously, working on this if necessary over a couple of sessions.

and then make up your own baddie - you have the ingredients now !!

Shani Phethean Hubble
www.writinginthemargins.co.uk

 

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Fwd: Writing Prompt

Well last week sort of raced past in a blurr of excuses, exams, racing up and down motorways and generally trying to get back into the "real world" - whatever and wherever that might be. 

Today's prompt is:-

"One can survive on hope... one needs hope to survive - to exist"

write on a positive and upbeat note - if you can't think of anything obvious, just keep writing the phrase until your subconscious mind takes over. 

Shani

 

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