Since Wayne’s dad passed away, I have been actively working on paring away the time commitments that detract from my ability to contribute to the family’s bottom line.
For example, I have said several places that I plan to focus more on writing opportunities that are compensated.
The 31 Days of Free Writes October Challenge, though, won’t let me go.
I guess I may say, on November 1, “Well, that was almost two hours of my life that would have been better spent chasing down paid writing opportunities.”
However, I appreciate the Five Minute Friday writing community that led me to this challenge, and honing my writing skills five minutes at a time can only be constructive.
Many of the writers are choosing a specific theme. I tossed that idea around in my head. I could, for example, focus on caregiving as a way to test my idea of writing a book about my caregiving experiences.
I don’t want to be that constrained, though, so for one hour and 55 minutes (over 31 days), readers will just get whatever that prompt inspires that day.
Here are the prompts:
And I’ll come in and link up each day after writing.
10/1 Worship
10/2 Tell
10/3 Create
10/4 Hope
10/5 Trust
10/6 Story
10/7 Hold
10/8 Truth
10/9 Plan
10/10 Listen
10/11 Remember
10/12 Write
10/13 Invite
10/14 Try
10/15 Remain
10/16 Read
10/17 Grow
10/18 Share
10/19 Brave
10/20 Discover
10/21 Give
10/22 Light
10/23 Work
10/24 Revise
10/25 Because
10/26 Change
10/27 Overcome
10/28 Connect
10/29 Follow
10/30 Refine
10/31 Rest
(And to those of you who subscribe to my blog, thank you first of all! I am sorry this is going to multiply the number of emails you get from me for a month. Feel free to ignore them and meet me on November 1 when I’ll return to my regularly scheduled weekly programming.)
Wife of one, Mom of two, Friend of many. My pronouns are she/her/hers.
I’ve been thinking about this and looking at other link-ups, but keep coming back to this one. I figure the prompts give me something concrete to write about, and since I know I could spend five minutes wandering around the internet, at least I’ll have something to show for my two hours. 🙂 Nice to meet you, neighbor!
Nice to meet you too!