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Summer Writer’s Challenge: Day

Beautiful tropical beach with the word summer written on the san

 

It is Primary Election Day in Maryland. Today we get to vote for our political party’s candidate for Governor along with a slew of local spots. The traffic was light at our polling place, and, frankly we aren’t supposed to have a big turn out. Election years that don’t align with a Presidential election seldom see long lines at the poles. But when I think of all  the people in the world who don’t have the power to freely elect a representative government, and the struggles that so many people in this country went through to get the franchise I wouldn’t miss the chance to vote. My beliefs might not align with a candidate’s platform 100%… but, I’m still going to vote. I owe it to those who don’t have the power to cast a ballot. I owe it to the women and minorities of a not so distant US History to step into that booth.

So choosing today’s prompt was easy … VOTE.

 

Maryland flag flying outside our house on a cold winter's day

Maryland flag flying outside our house on a cold winter’s day


Summer Writer’s Challenge: Day 21

 

 

Beautiful tropical beach with the word summer written on the san

 

 

 

Happy Monday everyone. Are you ready for another writing prompt? How about FAVORITE THING(S)?

 

English: Raindrops red rose

English: Raindrops red rose (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

 

 

 

 

Mindful

Mindful (Photo credit: midnightrook)

 

 

Bright Copper Kettle 4

Bright Copper Kettle 4 (Photo credit: amandabhslater)

 

Red Mittens

Red Mittens (Photo credit: Timothy Valentine)

you get the idea…

 


Summer Writer’s Challenge: Day 20

Beautiful tropical beach with the word summer written on the san

 

Another beautiful day in this neck of the woods. Hope you all are enjoying good weather as well. My  sweet, crazy dog is currently sleeping on my feet letting me know she loves me. So I dedicate this word prompt to her. Today’s prompt is DOG.

A terrier-type mixed-breed dog.

A terrier-type mixed-breed dog. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)


Summer Writing Challenge: Day 19

Beautiful tropical beach with the word summer written on the san

The weather is delightful this morning and we took the opportunity to go outside and play in the garden. Two hours later I’m pooped and covered with dirt and mulch, but happy. So today’s prompt is Garden.

 

Water in English Gardens (10 of 33) | Stream-s...

Water in English Gardens (10 of 33) | Stream-side Planting in Trebah Gardens, Cornwall, England (Photo credit: ukgardenphotos) [NO, THAT’S NOT MY  GARDEN!]


Summer Writing Challenge: Day 18

Beautiful tropical beach with the word summer written on the san

Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha. The writing gods are laughing at me.  What a silly mortal I was yesterday! Thinking that I’d be able to use my iPad to post a creative prompt between voice lessons! Thinking I’d have time to write something. HA! My muse just shakes her head, half in amusement, half in pity.

So, in hopes of appeasing the gods, the writing prompt is MUSE.

 

Musa reading a volumen (scroll), at the left a...

Musa reading a volumen (scroll), at the left an open chest. Attic red-figure lekythos, ca. 435-425 BC. From Boeotia. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)


Summer Writing Challenge

Beautiful tropical beach with the word summer written on the san

 

Ahhh Summer… My hubby has a weather gauge in his office and I just checked. It is 93 degrees outside, and 85 in the house. All is humid in sticky in Charm City Baltimore. We had a wicked winter, and I’m waiting for one of my friends who pined so longingly for Summer to complain about the heat so I can whack them with a Fla-Vor-Ice freezee pop. (NO I wouldn’t really do that.)

 

Fla-Vor-Ice

Fla-Vor-Ice (Photo credit: PakaLoeff)

Anyway, before I melt away I should give you today’s prompt… HOT.

 

 


Seven Hundred “club”

700 BlogsHad to put my party hat on to do a bit of celebrating yesterday when I realized the last blog I posted ticked the counter over to #700.

That’s a lot of muffin recipes, bioBlogs, secondary characters, writing challenges, and random crap that’s crossed my mind and you’ve had to read about! Thanks for hanging in there with me!

I’m wondering… what was your favorite post?

Do you miss the bioBlogs? I miss the cool people I found out about. But, I don’t miss the crunch of trying to find some one interesting to write about every day — thank goodness that experiment is over! It was a terrific education journey to learn about all those people, but it was tough to find birthday boys and girls who sparked my interest on a given day. And then I had to research them, and write what amounted to a  500-1000 word  report  on them. EVERY DAY. My goal was to do that for a year and I went for like 18 months, so I think the experiment was a success, but it was really hard, and my fiction writing and other work got short shrifted.

Muffin Mondays are going strong (although I often don’t get to post the results until Tuesdays).

At the top of the school year I got a job teaching voice at a local performing arts studio. It is a real job with a pay check and everything! And I love the kids (and adults) I get to work with. I also love finding music for the students. Whether it is something they suggest or something I remember singing 30 years ago that will work with one of their voices it is a lot of fun looking for and prepping the songs. I’m thinking of slipping a day into the schedule that focuses on music. How does that sound?

Any way I really want to thank those of you who stop by and read now and then.

Cheers,

Rita

 


Summer Writing Challenge: Day 16

Beautiful tropical beach with the word summer written on the san

 

When I write I like to curl up in my super comfortable La-Z-boy lounge chair with a pad of paper, a couple of extra sharp pencils, and a nice tall glass of ice water. There are two problems with this. 1.) The dog, my beloved cockapoo, Honey, has a Pavlovian response to my kicking back in the chair, and always needs to go out just as I settle in to write. 2.) The chair is so comfy that it often lulls me to sleep if I am not actively writing. That is to say if I’m thinking about what to write next… or noodling out dialog in my head… or trying to get character A to location X I have a tendency to get very drowsy.  Usually a gulp of ice water will bring me back in focus, but in honor of my La-Z-boy  I give you today’s writing / creative prompt: SLEEP.

Saturday afternoon chillin'

Saturday afternoon chillin’ (Photo credit: gillicious) Writing Challenge? What Writing Challenge? I just want to talk a little nap.

 

 

 

 


Summer Writing Challenge: Day 15

Looks like yesterday’s post didn’t go through so I’m doing it again today. Sorry!

Beautiful tropical beach with the word summer written on the sanIt is Day 15 of our Summer Writing Challenge, and since it is Father’s Day I’ll keep it simple and use FATHER as our prompt for today.

Happy writing every one… And Happy Father’s day.

HAPPY FATHERS DAY

HAPPY FATHERS DAY (Photo credit: Insight Imaging: John A Ryan Photography)