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SoCS — If It Ain’t Broke, Don’t Fix It

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I’m a little confused by Linda G. Hill’s instructions for today’s Stream of Consciousness Saturday prompt. First, she says that the prompt is “last thing that broke/you had to fix.” But, then she goes on to say that we should “think about the word that best describes the last thing that stopped working for you and use that word any way you’d like.”

So are we supposed to write about the last thing that actually broke that we had to fix? Or are we supposed to use the word that describes the last thing that stopped working and write about that word?

For example, if the last thing that broke that I had to fix was my toaster, should I write about that broken toaster and what I had to do to fix it?

Or, since my toaster is old, should I write about the word “old” because it describes the last thing that stopped working?

Do you see my dilemma here? Well, I guess I’ll do both.

The last thing I broke was my hip when I fell off a ladder. What did I have to do to fix it? I had to have emergency surgery for a partial hip replacement and go through nine-months and counting of physical therapy to fix it.

What word would I use to describe falling off a ladder and breaking my hip? I think it would either be “careless” or “stupid.”

WDP — The T-Word

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Daily writing prompt
If you had to give up one word that you use regularly, what would it be?
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I would gladly give up using the T-word: Trump. I would be happy to never have to utter that word ever again.

I’d even be willing to stop using that word as a way to say that something is getting the better of something else, like aces trump kings or throwing down a trump card.

Better yet, I’d gladly give up seeing his ugly, smug face everywhere.

Alas, I occasionally publish political posts on my blog and it’s likely that the name Trump and the image of the man will continue to appear here. But I pledge to keep it to a minimum.

Truthful Tuesday — Preferred Prompts

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Di, of Pensitivity101, is our host for Truthful Tuesday. This is Di’s final week of hosting Truthful Tuesday after keeping it going while its originator, PCGuyIV, was on a bit of a hiatus. Thanks, Di, for stepping up to the plate after Melanie, who initially took it from PCGuy, left us last year.

Anyway, this week Di wants to know…

Do you prefer Q&A, photo prompts, word prompts, or something else?

My short answer is yes.

I like all of those types of prompts. I don’t really have a preference for any specific type. I use word and photo prompts around which to build flash fiction posts. Q&A posts can be interesting and it’s fun to get to know a little more about some of my fellow bloggers by reading their answers to those Q&A prompts. I also like music prompts, like Jim Adams’ Song Lyric Sunday prompt, because I not only hear some great music, but I learn interesting backstories about the songs and the artists.

So whether it’s word, photo, Q&A, music, or some other kind of prompt, I say bring ‘em on. They help all of us when our muse is quite or our creativity is stalled and they give us what all writers say the key to great writing is: something to write about.

FOWC with Fandango — Word

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Welcome to Fandango’s One-Word Challenge (aka, FOWC). I will be posting each day’s word just after midnight Pacific Time (U.S.).

Today’s word is “word.”

Write a post using that word. It can be prose, poetry, fiction, non-fiction. It can be any length. It can be just a picture or a drawing if you want. No holds barred, so to speak.

Once you are done, tag your post with #FOWC and create a pingback to this post if you are on WordPress. Please check to confirm that your pingback is there. If not, please manually add your link in the comments.

And be sure to read the posts of other bloggers who respond to this prompt. Show them some love.

A Muddle Over Spuddle

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The word is “spuddle,” is a word unfamiliar to me. Perhaps it’s an anomaly, or an anagram of “puddles.“

Upon further examination, my findings are unsubstantiated, as the only reference I could find is to an obsolete, Southern England expression meaning “to make a lot of fuss about trivial things as if they are important.”

Well, I’m not going to make a fuss about an unimportant word like “spuddle.” Instead, I will throw caution to the wind and will be postponing by a day responding to any word prompts until tomorrow.

Because “spuddle” has turned my brain into muddle.

Written for these daily prompts: Ragtag Daily Prompt (spuddle), Your Daily Word Prompt (anomaly), The Daily Spur (examination), Fandango’s One-Word Challenge (unsubstantiated), My Vivid Blog (wind), and Word of the Day (postponing).