Daily writing prompt
You’re going on a cross-country trip. Airplane, train, bus, car, or bike?
If I could travel the world, I’d want to travel them on a set of cat’s paws.
Writing Prompts
Me Robot You Lazy
Daily Prompt
You, Robot
Congrats — you’ve been handed a robot whose sole job is to relieve you of one chore, job, or responsibility you particularly hate. What is it?
Before we got tangled up in the interwebs and a good part of the population disapeared into the unreality via their cellphones I had a very intersting conversation with my friend’s husband about robots.
He looked at them as tools or appliances, like toasters with brains.
But the part about creating robots that ‘think and learn’ rubbed me the wrong way.
” So. they’d be slaves.”
” No. They’d only have one purpose and you know they’re not human so they can’t be slaves.”
” So you’d purposely design them to not want to do anymore then you told them-like cleaning your house or walking your dog.”
” Yes.”
” Designer slaves?”
My friend’s husband laughed, ” They aren’t human. That slave arguement doesn’t even apply.”
” You know, many a slave owner has said that.”
We beat around that topic for awhile and to this day I still don’t like the idea of creating a robot ‘to do’ for me.
And as far as slaves- at work my printer has a name and chore. It’s called a Slave Printer.
And it does whatever it’s told to do by anyone who pushes a print button from their
computer and no matter what’s going on my printer will pick the job up.
Ok this prompt should have been fun, what’s the one thing I’d like to have a Robot do for me that I hate.
You know what I hate. Standing at the bus stop in the morning. I’d like to have a Robot do that for me. Just stand there and wait for my bus and when my bus shows up?
Haven’t figured that part out yet…and I’ll tell you something that’s ok. Unless of course I had the Robot figure that out for me too…
For Five Fears
(Wednesday, January 29, 2003)
Take a newspaper or magazine page and randomly cut thirty words. Cut out big words or little words. Once you have the words use them like magnetic poetry and write the last thing you say to the world before dying. You can make any adjustments by cutting off letters and arranging them in any way you like.
stuff DECISION
So StAy music JOB SENSE eNergy WaNt
END stone FOUR Playing tall SHOW five EASY miss Dead
DARKER explore waters CREEPY fear BUGGED slack OPEN
Great guitar GOODBYE
I’ll fess up, I tweaked this a little but not a lot. I thought this was more about
having fun then being perfect.
All I can say is I hope that I hope my last words aren’t this ditzy sounding.
On the other hand….
Goodbye Darker Waters
slack end
for five
fears.
Sense creepy energy
so explore stay.
Miss playing dead
music
Tall job open
decision bugs me.
::: the article I used was Tall and Scottish-an interview with David Tennant:::
Could Be Fun
Found Writing Prompts
that could be fun-
Give them a try and if you have some to share post the links in the comment section
a.m
from
Sprung Diary: Write a diary tracking and intercutting multiple levels of thoughts, experiences, anticipations, expectations, from minute to major. (Cf.. Hannah Weiner‘s Clairvoyant Journal.)
Fun- and I do mean Fun Prompts-
from
bogglesworld.com
more prompts from bogglesworld
Visit
Writing Prompts: Daily Writing & Journal Prompts
choice-inspired writing prompts for daily writing in journals or notebooks
They have a Prompt Generator that has 548 prompts also they add to it periodically
An Invitation
( message from Heather Blakey, owner of the Soul Food Cafe and Creator of the Soul Food Cafe Advent Calendar )
It is December and the year is coming to a close. Long standing members
will be familiar with the traditional Advent Calendars.
101 Nights At Soul Food
is a brand new blog, incorporating my
posts on Wandering the Halls of Soul Food.
During the coming 101 nights I am taking people to parts of Soul Food
that have been lying quietly, relatively unnoticed. If you feel so
inclined you can engage by creating a journal, like Lori Gloyd, create
posts and publish these on a blog.
I decided I did not have a Calender in me this year but instead I am
offering a free program. If you are new to the site this really is the
ideal time to dip your toe in the water and get to know how it all works
and to immerse yourself in it.
I would like to think that there will be a number of blogs linked to
this blog so that people will be able to see just how Soul Food works.
The main thing is to participate. Everyone who has come to Soul Food has
grown while they are here. It really isn’t a snobby, cliquey site and
people have genuinely developed as they have worked with themes and with
one another.
Everyone is welcome to engage on this blog. The thing to remember though
is that it does take time and persistent effort to establish yourself
here.
So to engage, create a WordPress blog and begin posting. When you feel
ready you can share some of your responses and experiences on 101
Nights. I am hoping that long term members will help take us down memory
lane by reposting some of their favourite posts.
warm wishes
Heather Blakey
Soul Food Café
contact Heather:
heatherblakey at fastmail dot fm
The Charles Dickens Experiment
If I had to choose my all time favorite Ghost Story
It would be Charles Dicken’s
A Christmas Carol.
It has it all, ghosts, gloom, despair, human monsters ( my favorite kind of monster ) and at the end when Scrooge is in the Graveyard and has guessed exactly who is in that uncared for grave and says:
Pure Ghost Story Gold.
So here’s the deal.
Normally from November till Christmas I do the light hearted stuff.
But this year I do believe that today I will return to my Owl Creek Bridge Blog and begin
The Dicken’s Experiment.
I want to see if I can keep it odd and macabre during the Christmas Season.
I’ll bet you I can.
So check out my daily posts HERE and see how I do.
Happy Holidays!
You know, until I get my hands all over it.
a.m.m.
Festival Of Trees
Very Cool Invitation To You From My Friend
Jade:
Attention writers, bloggers, and artists of all media: if you’re looking for a prompt or a bit of inspiration this month, consider looking for what’s hidden (or lurking) among the trees.
This September Arboreality will host The Festival of the Trees issue 39 on the theme of Secrets, and you’re all invited to join me, Jade Blackwater, and bring your friends too!
The Festival of the Trees is a monthly blog carnival featuring trees and forests. For the September Festival, our theme is Secrets:
“Forests, farms, gardens, urban trees, and ancient-rock-clinging-wind-whipped Bristlecone pine stands can be an escape, a place to hide, a space to rest, a home for buried treasure. This month, I invite you to reveal a small glimpse of a secret among the trees. Consider the quiet spots you go to sit, the trees which have stood in silent observation of the events of your life, the aromatic memory of the garden from a place you have visited. With word, image, sound, or otherwise inspired creation, give us a peek at what you see, or what you can imagine.”
Grab your free-wheeling creative license (and maybe a big, heavy club) and reveal what’s hidden in the dark, mutable forest.
Then post your creations online at your blog, photo album, or other web-based resource, and send me the link:
trees[at]brainripples[dot]com
Deadline for submissions is August 28, 2009.
Questions, comments, suggestions? Drop Jade an
email at
trees[at]brainripples[dot]com
(Don’t forget to drop breadcrumbs along the trail as you go!
…..wouldn’t want to get lost out there.)
[Photos taken October 2008 at the Prehistoric Gardens]
Funky Coffins
At one of Heather Blakey’s older blogs called the The Writing Notebook the first prompt on 8-3-04 was about these kids in one of her classes who designed Funky Coffins ( she had them do it on paper -if I would have been their teacher I would have had them in a wood shop somewhere sawing and nailing and gluing away , but that’s me) and then they wrote pieces about death.
This is how I feel about Coffins- I’ve seen a lot of them, I’ve had to move them and polish them and put them into the ground and now I know that when I meet my maker I don’t want to be put into a coffin- I want to be stuck up in a tree and I want nature to take it’s course.
However.
I may reconsider that if I can have a Coffin like this one:
- This coffin was commissioned by Mrs Pat Cox, nurse and music teacher, who’s lifelong passion was the ballet. (Top Ten Crazy Coffins chosen by David Crampton, Director of Vic Fearn Co Ltd).
So, you may be wondering – because if you know me the words ‘ Anita Marie ‘ and
‘ Fine Arts’ don’t exactly go together-
why did I chose the above coffin and not, let’s say-
this one:
- This replica of a vintage car is the latest coffin commissioned. Others being made include a 1913 Rolls Ropyce Silver Shadow replica, a Viking Long ship, a Star Trek space pod and a Lucozade bottle!
I’ve chosen this one:
- This coffin was commissioned by Mrs Pat Cox, nurse and music teacher, who’s lifelong passion was the ballet. (Top Ten Crazy Coffins chosen by David Crampton, Director of Vic Fearn Co Ltd).
because it will send my Sister, who was a little ballerina, into hysterics.
She will certainly want a ballet slipper coffin…and so will her friends who seem to copy whatever she does, and I can think of a few of my guy friends who would go with one of these because they’re just strange ( which is why I love them so ) and before you know it-
there’s going to be a cemetery in Washington State where everyone has been buried in a giant pink ballet slipper.
My hope is that a thousand years from now this team of archaeologists will find this cemetery and when they start to unearth what has been buried there they will find…
Oh WOW.
I wish I could live forever because there is no price I would not pay to be there on the day that happens.
A.M
sources and links:
pictures from BBC Nottingham homepage: Top Ten Crazy Coffins
Writing Notebook: Be Like An Athlete
CRAZY COFFINS GALLERY– the site
Do You Know The Muffin Man?
Muffin man, illustrated in Punch
Do you know the Muffin Man?
The Muffin Man, the Muffin Man.
Do you know the Muffin Man,
Who lives in Drury Lane?
Once a teacher asked me, after reading something I wrote,
” where on Earth do you get your ideas from?”
and I said
” From the Muffin Man “
Sure.
It was a creepy answer
but it was also a pretty stupid thing to say to a 14 year old.
Still.
When I start a writing project I think of it as a visit to
The Muffin Man.
And you?
AdvenTURE Calendars at Soul Food
There is a tradition at the Soul Food Cafe. Each December, for the past five years, Heather Blakey has launched an Advent Calendar on the first day of December. Advent calendars have long helped build excitement and anticipation on the countdown to Christmas, typically revealing a pretty picture or piece of chocolate behind the cardboard door for each December day along the way. Heather Blakey adopted a new approach to this tradition. Each day during December a new link lights up on the Soul Food Advent Calendar.
The Cafe now has a collection of these beautiful features, kept for posterity and full of prompts and inspiration for eager writers and artists. This lens features all of them.
So check it out HERE and enjoy!
Irregular Bones 
