Posts made in January, 2010
Writing Workshop #11 – Voices in your head & false assumptions
Welcome to Monday’s Writing Workshop prompts! There’s going to be a slightly different format this week as I’ve decided to give you all an extra day to respond to the prompts. Our workshop will now be held on a THURSDAY so I, umm, I mean you all have a bit of extra time to write. What do you reckon? Good idea?
For any newbies (and it’s never to late to join in), here’s how it works… I’m going to give you 5 writing/blogging prompts. Pick one, pick two, or do them all if you’re really keen – it’s up to you. How you respond is your choice. You could share a real-life story, or make one up. You could write a poem or just free-write without thinking too hard and see what happens. It can be funny; it can be serious; it can be emotional. It can be whatever you want it to be. The only rule is to have fun with it!
Prompts each week will take their inspiration from blogs, current affairs, daily life, or just whatever everyone happened to be talking about that week. If you’d like to suggest a prompt then send me an email or catch me on Twitter – I would love to hear your ideas.
So here they are:
1. Tell me about a time where you refused to compromise. What was it about? Do you regret your decision?
- Inspired by Jo at Slummy Single Mummy and her post: ‘The sacrifices you make as a parent – and the ones you won’t…’
2. What do people always wrongly assume about you? Time to set the record straight people!!!
- Inspired by Bare-Naked Mummy’s fab post on why, unequivocally, DEFINITELY Welsh people are NOT posh!
3. What have the voices in your head been saying lately? Write a conversation with yourself.
- Inspired by Manic Mummy’s blog post: ‘Is it me, or…’
4. Your prompt is ‘Together’. Share a scene or write something that encapsulates this feeling for you.
- Inspired by Noble Savage’s beautiful post: ‘Sunday Mothering’
5. What exciting job would you like to do for a day?
- Inspired by my poetical musings this week.
Now here’s what you have to do. Write your post and publish it on your blog between now and THURSDAY. On Thursday come back and use the widget that will be up to paste in the URL of your post to share. Then take some time to read some of the other entries and leave some comment love! We’re not here to critique – just to have fun and support each other in our writing experiments. So be kind please.
Anyone who would like to submit something via email, or even anonymously will be more than welcome to do so. I’ll post them on the site here and include the link in Thursday’s round-up.
Feel free to use the Workshop badge on your blog or as part of your post if you like. Code is here:
Note: I’m told Blogger does something a bit funny with the code so you’ll need to copy and paste it and then retype the quotation marks (“) as Blogger changes them for some reason.
See you Thursday then!
P.S. And if you fancy plugging this workshop on the social network of your choice? Then that would be fan-frigging-tastic.
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This Writing Workshop is brought to you in association with Mama Kat’s Losin’ It – who’s lovely author came up with the concept and runs her own workshop over in the U.S.
Read MoreGrowing Up – a shiny happy people post
Last week the very lovely pink coiffured Rosie Scribble tagged me in a meme thingy that she started to inject a bit of happiness across the bloggosphere.
There’s been quite a lot of negative stuff happening in this lovely bloggy community of mine lately, and, as I tend to with this sort of thing, I take it all very personally and get far more upset about it all than I should do. So it was nice to do this tonight, to lay aside all the crappy stuff and focus on things that are lovely and good and positive.
The rules of Rosie’s Shiny Happy People meme are thus:
Name a song that makes you happy - a song you would listen to if you needed a sudden injection of happiness.
Post an image that makes you smile, it can be anything – a silly photo, an image taken from the internet, anything at all that puts a smile on your face (and isn’t too rude!)
So. First a little intro. As most of you know it’s been a bit of a tough journey for me at times. Motherhood hasn’t been easy, in fact, in some respects, its something I struggle with more and more. But I do love it. I love the person that it’s making me, the way that it’s challenging me, forcing me to evolve and change and adapt. It’s teaching me new things about myself every day and although I still battle with a lot of inner demons and feel I have a long way to go, I really believe it’s taking me somewhere good and exciting and fulfilling.
I feel like I’m finally growing up. Feel like I’m finally BECOMING someone. And I love that.
This song really captures that feeling for me. The feeling of growing into myself. And it never, ever fails to lift my spirits.
(Apologies for the weird large box – clueless how to make this smaller!)
Next some photos. I never thought I’d be the sort of mother that endlessly bores people with pictures of my children, but sorry, I really really am. Here’s a few funny and sweet ones from Kai’s very early months that never fail to make me smile and show me just how far we’ve come. Hope you enjoy…
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So, tag time. I tag:
P.S. I’ve had a few memes lately and to be honest I’m starting to forget who tagged me in what so my apologies if I’ve not responded right away but thank you and I’ll be working round to as many as I can! I don’t want to give you meme overload. Just that word is weird. meeee meeee. Ok I’ll stop now…
Read MoreWriting Workshop: Oh Bother
Welcome back to the Wednesday Writing Workshop link-up! At the bottom of this post you’ll find the widget to post the link to your workshop posts. It’s my turn first though, of course.
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Now I must apologise this morning. As most of you know, sometimes my body doesn’t play nice and this morning is one of those mornings. I’d wondered why I was so tired this week… hmm. Anyway, it’s a quick entry from me today then. Just time to introduce you to the character I think I most resemble, at least some of the time anyway, and share with you some of his words of wisdom from the wonderful book by A.A. Milne:
“The old grey donkey, Eeyore stood by himself in a thistly corner of the Forest, his front feet well apart, his head on one side, and thought about things. Sometimes he thought sadly to himself, “Why?” and sometimes he thought, “Wherefore?” and sometimes he thought, “Inasmuch as which?” and sometimes he didn’t quite know what he was thinking about.”
I find it all too easy to slip into Eeyore mode. I think too much. And I tend to feel a little overwhelmed and lonely in a very bustly forest full of Tiggers that bounce you, surrounded by very big rivers to fall in. And then I get all self-deprecating and start feeling a bit sorry for myself.
“It isn’t as if there were anything very wonderful about my little corner. Of course or people that like cold, wet, ugly bits it is something rather special.”
Luckily, I have some lovely friends that always help stick my tail back on when it falls off, or make me a new house when mine persists on falling down around my ears, and maybe even fetch me a thistle or two.
Those friends are you lot.
Thank you, all of you, for always taking the time to visit my own little corner. For leaving so many supportive and encouraging comments and for brightening up my day every time you do.
That is all x
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So now it’s your turn!
1. Write something to say thank you to some who has made a difference to your life,
- Inspired by the Moiderer’s ‘People I’d like to thank‘
2. What cartoon character are you?
- Pinched from Mummy Pig’s, oops I mean Mummy Mania’s brilliant recent post
3. What are you guilty of viewing through rose-coloured spectacles?
- Inspired by Maternal Tales’ conversation with her mother
4. Tell me about a time you did something yourself that may have been better done by a professional and went a bit, well, wrong…
- Inspired by Insomniac Mummy’s ‘When home hair-cuts go bad’
5. If you haven’t already, please please consider writing a post about the horrific loss and suffering of the Haitian people due to last week’s earthquake, encouraging people to give to disaster relief charities such as the DEC, or support campaigns such as the Bloggers for Haiti in raising money for life saving Shelter Boxes
- Inspired by the dozens and dozens of bloggers who have already done so and helped to make a real difference.
Leave your name and the URL to your post in the MckLinky below (the URL should be to your post not just to your blog) andleave me a comment to let me know you’ve taken part. If you have the time it would be great if you could try and read and comment on at least two other entries. And be kind! It’s supposed to be a bit of fun – we’re not looking for the next Booker Prize winner here!
If you haven’t had chance to respond yet, then you’ve still got today! Or just wait till next week, when there’ll be five brand new prompts to get you thinking.
This Writing Workshop is brought to you in association with Mama Kat’s Losin’ It – who’s lovely author came up with the concept and runs her own workshop over in the U.S.
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