Delving into Familiar

What does familiar feel like?  

Close your eyes and observe the "feeling" of a person, place or object that you know extremely well.  

Do you find comfort in areas of life that appear not to change even though subtle differences occur as a reality of life?

Observe and make notes of the details from sound, scents, taste and texture.  Go beyond the visual to define your choice.  Keep moving from familiar to change as you go about the day.  Turn your view upside down.

Write your discoveries about familiar and change.

Notion of Escape

Consider the emotional meanings of escape.
Do you get away or get free? Do you elude? Do you escape from or to?

Let your mind wander around all ideas of escape: growing beyond, pushing past 'de fence,' like the roses or discovering self-defense.

Escape into a new way of thinking of escapage!

Bombarded with Bad News?

Most breaking news fills us with sights, sounds and words expanding everything that's going wrong in the world. Do you feel this affects your writing?

Today, sift through the negativity and create the first lines of a story you'd like to see on a front page, the first online news you see, or positivity from the mouths of reporters on television.

Today, choose your words to show us what's working on our planet.

Playing in the Dictionary

“The dictionary is the only place where success comes before work.”           

Vince Lombardi 

Did you know that Fun comes after fumble and fumigate and before function? This reveals you need to have fun to function.

Turning another page at random, my eyes found Grave. Now that word has several meanings so I looked to see that it comes after Gratitude but before Gravy Train. The dictionary defines Gravy Train as a situation where someone can make a lot of money for little effort. That goes against Lombardi’s philosophy.

Humerus comes before humorous and could tickle the funny bone of the hummingbird. Perseverance arrives ahead of persimmon who still finds persistence up ahead. Doofuss and doohickey wait before doorway with doorsteps and doorstops ahead.

I found a photo of a pontoon already landed and waited for a pony to arrive with a woman in a poodle skirt whose hair played in a poof. She wanted to meet the Pooh Bah as he walked off the plane to a plateau of possibility. A paramour played possum and purchased a postage stamp.

Stroll with your eyes in the dictionary.  Play with words today!

A Risk Taken

Think about a time you moved to the edge of experience.

A hike in the wild to a place of mystery, job change or a new personal relationship could draw out an experience of edginess.

Life on the tip of discovery sparks aliveness, a perspective you can't have where everything is safe and predictable. Your self-reliance becomes tested and strengthened.

Scan the years of memories. Notice if what first comes to mind, first brings smiles and laughter, involves times you felt uncomfortable, really lost or frightened.

Write about discovering a different rhythm felt or how you engaged self-reliance skills.

Love for Writing Two Weeks Completed!

Happy Valentine's Day. Celebrate your dedication to writing!

After devoting thirteen days of love to your writing, what have you discovered about the process?

Today, focus on your motivation to continue your Write Habit. Write about reasons to continue for another two weeks.