Daily scribbles on writing and living. How to get rid of cobwebs in my brain. CLOSED. |
I am over the moon with joy this morning, as I got an anonymous gift from a co-writer on WdC. I can set up a blog for the coming three months since someone paid for an upgrade. If you ever read this Anonymous One, thank you so much! Many thanks to "Request An Upgrade From RAOK" [E] I got an upgrade for two more months. That will enable me to write and review some more in order to earn my keep after that. I have to think about this for a moment. Don't want to rush it, don't want to solely vent or underestimate the value of a daily blog for my writing. So I will carefully try to explore what it will bring me. “All my life, my heart has sought a thing I cannot name. Remembered line from a long-forgotten poem” ― Hunter S. Thompson, Hell's Angels: A Strange and Terrible Saga When I was a teenager, my little brother stole my journal out of my bedroom and read it. I was so disappointed and mad about his action, I destroyed my writing and have been struggling with the concept of conveying my inner thoughts ever since. So, I will send my daily scribbles to the world. On How to get rid of cobwebs in my brain. To let in some air and rejoice. For another clumsy attempt at writing, check out "All fingers and thumbs " [18+]. I am a Rising Star from Rising Star Program 2016-2017. Comments, scribbles, and notes welcome! Thanks, 🌕 HuntersMoon for the teal awardicon. Note ▼ |
"30-Day Blogging Challenge ON HIATUS" [13+] Normally a two- or three-sentence response to a blog prompt doesn't seem like much of a response to me (personal opinion, that's all)...but today, come up with a couple sentences using as many WDC emoticons in place of words as you can. Any subject, any topic, and they don't have to be related if you just wanna make up random sentences. Have some fun with this! *Bigsmile* I must it over to you: this a very difficult set of today. But I it anyway with a . I this was much easier to do. The is up, there is some but no or . winter yet in . |
"30-Day Blogging Challenge ON HIATUS" [13+] What are some things you would put in a time capsule to be opened up one, twenty, and/or fifty years from now that shows the person you are today? I’ve created three poetry booklets. There were 1000 copies each to be sold. Everything has been sold over the years. I would like three of those copies put in a time capsule to be opened after I am gone in fifty years. I also would like to show a transcript of my recent writing (on WdC) in that time capsule. |
"30-Day Blogging Challenge ON HIATUS" [13+] Talk Tuesday! What's your opinion on high school reunions? Have you gone to any? Why (or why not)? Years ago I was at a high school reunion with my best friend. We wanted to visit the school once more and see how others were doing after so long. It turned out great, with a few surprises I recall of people we hadn’t seen in a very long time. That best friend died at 40 so it is one of my good memories of her and the school. |
"30-Day Blogging Challenge ON HIATUS" [13+] Motivational Monday! Actress Ethel Merman, born on this day back in 1908, once said "I can never remember being afraid of an audience. If the audience could do better, they'd be up here on stage and I'd be out there watching them." How does this quote relate to your blogging? Do you write for any particular audience? I am not afraid of readers at Writing.com. We are all writers so we have a lot in common. I don’t write for a particular audience. In fact, I am writing for myself most of the time. I should perhaps consider my (small) audience more. I like to see on a weekly basis what my statistics are. Between 20-25 people read items per day. A steady flow. So I think that’s awesome. |
"30-Day Blogging Challenge ON HIATUS" [13+] The Sunday News! I love McDonalds' Chicken McNuggets. I would probably still eat them if you pulled a gun on me. Your grubby gun-toting fingers won't dare pull a trigger on my enjoyment. What food item would make you stare down the barrel of a gun and be like "Nah bruh, I'm busy here on this..."? I am a sucker for fried eggs. Without much butter to fry it in I love the planning, making and eating of a fried egg on bread or toast. The white and yellow sizzling in the pan…yummy! I love eggs to begin with, boiled, scrambled or fried. I have to keep it under wraps though because of the cholesterol, but I try to indulge myself as often as it is allowed. |
"30-Day Blogging Challenge ON HIATUS" [13+] Creation Saturday! You're all talented writers, of varying backgrounds and abilities. As we near the halfway point of the month, take some time to look back at your entries. Create a poem inspired from your entries this month. Any style or form (or none at all). Pull lines from all of your entries thus far and see what happens. Obviously you're free to add/subtract words from lines that don't seem to fit the narrative you've come across when compiling your thoughts; this isn't meant to be a summary of the month to date, but a writing exercise. I log in every day for hours to create |
"30-Day Blogging Challenge ON HIATUS" [13+] Fun Fact Friday! On this day in 1854, Anthony Faas of Philadelphia, PA, was granted the first US patent for the accordion. He made improvements to the keyboard and enhanced the sound. Do you play or have you ever played any instruments? If not, what's one you'd like to learn? Bonus Points today for sharing a favorite song of yours with us that names any instrument in its title. I played in an original gamelan orchestra for a year at the Indonesian School of The Hague. I played the saron in slendro scale. |
"30-Day Blogging Challenge ON HIATUS" [13+] I just spent the bulk of the evening reorganizing my WDC portfolio a little bit. I do it maybe once or twice a year. How often do you organize yours? How do you have yours set up? Are your folders arranged in any specific order? Guide us on a virtual walking tour of your port. I have to rearrange my portfolio in July again, after my first anniversary of WdC. Then I will take out the bulk of my stories and put them in my folder Superfluous and redundant trash. |
"30-Day Blogging Challenge ON HIATUS" [13+] Vincent Van Gogh said, "If you hear a voice within you say 'you cannot paint', then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced." What is your 'you cannot ____' voice always ragging on you about, and how good are you at silencing it? ’You cannot enjoy yourself’ is something I often experience. It has something to do with growing up in a dysfunctional family. I try to silence it every day by trying to enjoy myself as best I can. I even have a Weekly Goal of Enjoying myself here at WdC, a reminder that I am worth it to enjoy life. But because of my background, I find it hard to see the bright side of life. I am what you may call a pessimist because of it. The glass is always half empty. Surrounding myself with optimistic people here at WdC is part of my plan to see Life in a better, brighter way. |
"30-Day Blogging Challenge ON HIATUS" [13+] Talk Tuesday! What's your favorite way of passing the time when your internet connection is interrupted for an extended period of time, especially when you had a lot you planned on taking care of online? Or, if you prefer- real talk- how addicted to the internet are you? I am totally addicted to the internet. In real talk The internet aka Writing.com means everything since I joined 7 months ago. I log in every day for hours and I wouldn’t know what to do with myself if there was no connection. I wrote a piece on this very subject:
I am participating in the Rising Stars Program online, I have just signed up for an 8 weeks winter course on Grammar at the New Horizons Academy and I am a daily blogger. It’s all online and it’s all happening because I have an Internet connection. Fingers crossed that nothing is happening that will interrupt those activities. I would be devastated! |
"30-Day Blogging Challenge ON HIATUS" [13+] Motivational Monday! Late actor Bob Denver (known for playing Gilligan on the tv show Gilligan's Island ), who would've celebrated his 82nd birthday today, once said "You know, I have no worst experiences." What do you think? When have you had to turn a potential "worst experience" into something positive? I have had my share of worst experiences in the past. When I was molested and stalked and got death threats from a client’s family I was devastated for a long time. I had a nervous breakdown because of it and stopped working as a psychologist. It ruined my career and my life for a long period. I had to make the best of things after that. I put my life back together and started a new life as a writer. But things never were the same after that bad experience. |
"30-Day Blogging Challenge ON HIATUS" [13+] The Sunday News! CES 2017 (Consumer Electronics Show) opened this week in Las Vegas, Nevada, and here are some of the weirder items on display and potentially coming to a store or online shop near you. Any thoughts or opinions on any of the items? Anything you might be interested in? Faraday Future electric car: I would like to test its ability to go from 0-60 mph in 2.39 seconds. I never drove an electric car so it would be interesting. In my country buying an electric car came with tax benefits and that pushed its growth on the market significantly. They will stop those benefits in the coming months; I think that is not smart since the amount of electric cars sold will diminish again after that. At first, they thought electric cars were the future, but now they are not so sure. And the $200,000 you will have to pay in order to get one will not help either. Too expensive for my taste. |
"30-Day Blogging Challenge ON HIATUS" [13+] Develop a new New Year's Eve tradition. It can be serious or humorous; possible or impossible. Here's a list of 14 weird ones if you need some inspiration. My father died just before Christmas 2015, so the holiday period and New Year’s Eve 2015/16 I spent in the house of my stepmom. This year on New Year’s Eve I thought to do the same in order for her to be not alone on New Year’s Eve. So I spent the night. I promised my father to keep an eye on her if he passed away first. And I am doing just that. So I think I’ve set a new tradition to be at her place and spent the night at New Year’s Eve. |
Won 3rd place in the "Newbies ONLY Short Story & Poem Contest" for October 2016 for
AND 1st Place 'Short Story' - Newbies ONLY Short Story & Poem Contest ~ November 2016 for
"30-Day Blogging Challenge ON HIATUS" [13+] Fun Fact Friday! On this day in 1994, figure skater Nancy Kerrigan was clubbed on the right leg by an assailant at Cobo Arena in Detroit, MI. Four men were later sentenced to prison for the attack, including rival skater Tonya Harding's ex-husband. If you had to resort to some kind of evil shenanigans or trickery in order to increase your chances of winning this blogging challenge, what would be your plan of attack? Have some fun with this! *Smile* No evil shenanigans or trickery for me. This blogging challenge is first of all not about winning but about participating. It totally depends on my Muse for inspiration and I cannot fool my Muse. She will play along or will not, simple as that. So if I cannot win I won’t. But trickery doesn’t come into play. It simply is not an option. |
"30-Day Blogging Challenge ON HIATUS" [13+] Are you on the road, or are you safely at home? Think about it... I think I am safely at home; I’ve fulfilled some goals in life. At the same time, I am on the road since my life isn’t over yet and I have still time to make future plans. So I think both apply to my situation at the present. |
"30-Day Blogging Challenge ON HIATUS" [13+] What's one place in the world you have yet to visit and have absolutely no intention of ever, ever going? Why are you so adamant about never visiting? Colombia, South America because of the drug cartels and crime. In my view it is a very dangerous place to visit and I have absolutely no intention of ever going. |
"30-Day Blogging Challenge ON HIATUS" [13+] Does any government have a right to say what you can or cannot do with your body? Maybe it’s about abortion, or drug usage like smoking, or pregnancy, or suicide, or sex work, or voluntary amputation, or gender reassignment surgery, or organ donor after death. I think it’s a person’s right to do with their body what they think is best. It’s an individual right. |
"30-Day Blogging Challenge ON HIATUS" [13+] Writing, to me, is simply thinking through my fingers. Read more at: https://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/i/isaac_asimov.html I am not sure if this quote applies to me as a writer. It sounds so easy, writing is thinking through your fingers. To me, writing is more difficult than that. Recently I am struggling with my writing. It is more difficult to activate my Muse these days. My inspiration is not always directly available. Apparently, the holidays have drained me a little bit with all the groceries, shopping and cooking and entertaining family. I feel a bit tired these days in the New Year. |
"30-Day Blogging Challenge ON HIATUS" [13+] What is the most fun you've had breaking a New Year’s resolution? And if you don't make resolutions, imagine making one, and then tell us how you'd most enjoy not keeping it. I am a smoker and smoking is bad for me. So I tried for years to make my New Year’s resolutions about quitting smoking. It never worked out. I usually start smoking again after two hours of finishing my last cigarette. So I stopped making New Year’s resolutions after that. |
New Years Eve tonight. So we celebrate at The Taste of Tasmania New Year’s Eve party . It’s the end of this blog on Australia. I wish everybody a great ending of the year 2016 and a good beginning of 2017 wherever you are! |