I’m not happy with today’s prompt (again), so I’m going to ‘borrow’ a prompt from a friend. They were asking for help regarding a situation in their book, and my brain just went nuts. I’ll try my best to keep it short today. Here’s the prompt: In an attempt to get somewhere safer, two people suddenly appear in a very dark tunnel. For reasons unknown, they can’t get out the same way they got in.
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A post about writing.
Imagine you’re just getting your license to drive, and you’re given a Smart car to drive around… one of those little mini things that fit one and a half humans inside and look like they’d blow off the road in a stiff wind. While not everyone is enamored with such a small vehicle, it does the job at getting you from Point A to Point B. It may not have the best handling, or power, but you can drive on the roads and park in any spot just like any other car.
Now, imagine you get a job as a courier. You deliver packages and whatnot all over the place. You get paid more if you can deliver more packages at the same time, and if you get them there faster (forget about stupid things like speed limits for this exercise). What kind of car do you think you would need for this job? Probably one with a pretty good sized cargo space… one with a big gas tank so you wouldn’t have to fill up as often… one with good aerodynamics to keep you going fast… one with a powerful engine to keep your speed high… one with great suspension for handling corners and rough terrain (like the billions of potholes in Spokane). What if you could get a car like that for $20.
If someone on the street asked me for some change, I could instantly say, “No.”… not because I don’t want to give them any, but because I really don’t have any. I do have 3 dollar bills in my pocket, but that’s extremely rare. I usually buy most things with my debit card (I have instant access to my bank account through my bank’s app on my phone).
What’s the point? Todays prompt: 14. Think about one thing you would like to change about your life, and tell us how you plan to do it. Change joke aside, the biggest thing would be money… or lack thereof. We could all use a little more money in our lives, and to do that (for most of us), that means getting a better job (or possibly a raise if you already like where you’re working).
Has it really been a week already? 7 days, and I’ve already been close to giving up this blog thing twice. Today’s prompt is: 7. What does your blogging schedule look like? One second… *super loud laughing in the other room*
WHEW! I needed that. Before this challenge of writing a blog post a day for a month, you were lucky to catch a post once a month. I know I set a goal of one blog post a week almost a year ago, but that went down the tubes pretty quickly. I’m relatively new to this ‘keep to a schedule’ thing.
So, what would I like my blog schedule to look like? I’m glad you asked.
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Once they were able to get the temporal boundary lock working, it was only a matter of time before someone stupid enough to look for it would try. A self-proclaimed ‘Urban Legend’ scientist, Professor Quark spent millions of dollars in the hunt for many of the world’s imaginary creatures.
After a dozen or so failures, he was beginning to scrape the bottom of the proverbial barrel. That’s when the TBL was released. In a fit of passion, he purchased one of the first working prototypes and set off for wetter areas of the country. After a quick search, North Idaho was chosen… only because there were a series of quick, intermittent storms supposed to be rolling through.
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Today’s prompt is: 2. How do you stay in touch with far-away friends? But I’m gonna switch it up a little… (yes, already)
Since I don’t have many (read: any) local friends, I seem to find 99% of them online. More specifically, my social network is very much digital. While I have my facebook account, where the people I’m related to chatter about their lives and whatnot, I don’t follow many people I would term ‘friends’ there (of course, there are always a few exceptions). I also have a twitter account (where some of you may have found the link to this post), but again, not a bucket of people I would ‘fess up to calling friends.
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Normally, this month would require me to be focused on either writing or editing a story. I’ve decided not to do that. Instead, this month will be focused on the blog… the terribly neglected and woefully underused blog that you’re reading at this moment.
Since I enjoy the challenge that NaNo/Camp NaNo provides, I’ll just readjust it into a ‘blog post a day, every day, for a month’ challenge. To do that, I’ve looked around the internet for prompts (there are plenty, btw) and have decided to go with this one from The Sway. I think most of them are things I can write about, with only a few that I’ll be changing up a little to fit my format a little better. So, without further ado, my first prompt of the month…
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*crawls out from under a rock* *squints at the light* “Oh! Hey.” *contemplates crawling back under the rock*
It’s the middle of May, and I’m sitting here looking at the things I’ve done… and the things I need to do… and feeling disappointed with both.
There’s been some progress. My latest book, Praising Kane, is in the hands of a few beta readers (still need more, if you’re interested). I’ve also caught the inkling of a new story and have begun to write again. It feels very strange after having edited two books in a row.
None of that is helping with the fact that I have just under 2 1/2 months until my yearly goal promises need to be reached. That, compounded with the wacky work schedule (they’ve begun to have me work almost every weekend), is making it an even greater challenge. Which leads me to the brain rambling…
Every year, a local jeweler hosts something called a Diamond Dash. It’s essentially a scavenger hunt, cleverly disguised as an opportunity to win a diamond ring. You pay to enter, and using your phone (to get SMS alerts), and any other means (i.e. bikes/scooters/segways/hoverboards/feet/etc…), you run your butt ragged around a downtown metropolitan area (complete with regular traffic) to find clues and solve riddles, which in turn, earns you points to possibly get a chance to win some cool stuff.
Sounds pretty cool, right? Not when you’re close to 300 pounds and a very competitive couch potato, it seems.
NaNoWriMo (the short version of National Novel Writing Month) is only 2 weeks away. Among the writing group, we just shorten it to nano and we understand that we’re not discussing very tiny robots or electronics.
During nano, people around the world are typing/writing furiously to pull 50,000 words (nothing says they have to be good words) from their brain. Some people find this easy. Some find it to be one of the most difficult things they’ve ever tried. But what is nano to me?
