I may have epically failed and missed Day 25. Sorry I was busy watching Shakespeare in the Meadow. (I do have a life people.)

So Here’s Day 26’s Prompt:

Acting

English: Forces acting on a wedge (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

I bet you are wondering how I come up with the daily prompt for this writing challenge. Come on, it’s been keeping you up at night, hasn’t it? Well, sometimes I’ll be inspired by what is happening in the day around me.  I’m pretty sure I was having a rather wonderful day when I gave Day 11’s prompt of DELIGHTFUL.  And I probably wasn’t so happy on day 6 when I gave GRUMBLE. But most days I take a more removed, semi-scientific approach to finding a prompt.

I grab whatever reading material is closest to me (the newspaper, a book…) and open it randomly. I count down the number of full lines on the page days of the challenge (today I went down 24 lines) and count over 15 words (for 2015). Then I find the closest “promptable” word.

Some words just will not make a very good prompt. Conjunctions, for example, kinda suck as promptable material. So do pronouns and proper names. Verbs are good, as are adjectives, adverbs and some nouns.

So for today I randomly opened The Annotated Emma by Jane Austen (Annotates and Edited by David M. Shapard, published by Anchor Books) to page  142. Following the formula I get to the word “my” a pretty lame prompt. So looking around that word I’ve got “coachman” nice prompt, but kind of limited and dated and “foot-path.” Yeah, “foot-path” can take me it a couple of different ways I think I walk that way.

So today’s creative prompt is…

Foot-path

English: The foot path to Boode on the left of Buttercombe Lane (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

It is a beautiful day outside in the NoBalCo area I hope you take your notebooks outside and write today.

Today’s prompt is…

Demur

English: Fresco of couple in bed. Man talks to his shy bride. A servant on the left watches the scene. Fresko from the left side of the right wall of cubiculum D in the Casa della Farnesina in Rome. Ca. 19 BC. Museo Nazionale Romano, Palazzo Massimo alle Terme, Inv. 1188. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Today’s word prompt is…

Companion

English: Boy with a dog Nederlands: Foto. Jongen met hond (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Today’s writing prompt is…

Helpless

English: The Helpless Robot, a work by Canadian artist Norman White (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

What a hot and sticky day it was today!

I hope you found a cool place to write / create.

Here’s the writing challenge for Day 20…

CHANCE

Tic tac toe. Español: Ta te ti Polski: Kółko i krzyżyk. Português: Jogo da velha (pt-br) ou jogo do galo (pt-pt) Română: X şi 0 (X and 0) (Photo credit: Wikipedia)