INSPIRATIONS: A Writing Project

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INSPIRATIONS

What It Is: a writing project, based on anything that inspires you — people, places, things, experiences, and/or creations (such as writings, photos, artwork, etc.) offered up by others

When It Happens: May 15 – June 30, 2021 — post as little or as often as you like, within that time frame

Who Can Play: anyone age 18 or older

How It Works: Create a new post, about whatever topic you wish. Somewhere within the post, share the inspiration behind it (with links to the content that inspired you, where applicable).

Acceptable Topics: anything that inspires you

THAT’S IT!

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If you want to play, please leave me a link to your post{s} in the comments section below. Use of the badge is optional.

If you have any questions, please let me know. Otherwise…

Ready ~ Set ~ WRITE!

Because I’ve been feeling INSPIRED…

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I have an idea for a writing project.

So during the month of April — as well as before that, but April was the impetus because of the A-to-Z Challenge — I found myself reading posts by fellow bloggers and going:

  • nodnodnod, or
  • I think I could create something like that, or
  • What a great idea!, or
  • That reminds me of… or even
  • I absolutely do.NOT understand this! *laugh*

And as a result, have accumulated a mile-long list of things that zapped my ‘thinking’ juices to life.

Sometimes it’s not obviously related. Like, one blogger wrote a post that talked about eyes, and I was reminded of someone I knew as a kid who had two different colored eyes. That person went on to marry the brother of one of my good friends (though they subsequently divorced) and just thinking about that got my mind thinking of how/why I knew that person as a kid, which got me thinking about sports and coaching and generally-athletic-though-not-always things, which led me to thinking about attitudes around competition and all the mixed messages I have had to sort through related to that concept throughout my life.

: deep breath :

*laugh*

So… Not always an obvious connection, right? But still: something somebody else did/said/wrote got me thinking in that direction. And if I write about it, it’s because of that inspiration.

Make sense?

Enter: Writing Project

I think I’m going to call this Inspirations.

Would you like to join me?

Your inspiration can come from anywhere — a person, an event, the great outdoors, a photograph you took, a piece of art you saw, a performance you attended, a writer you admire, a blog post you read, etc.

Your response to said inspiration can come in any form — a photograph, a poem, a long-form piece of writing, a personal essay, a short work of fiction, a collage, an educational post, etc.

Basically, if you – like me – have ever felt inspired to write something because of __________: WRITE YOUR INSPIRATIONS!

That’s it. 🙂

I will flesh out the details and create a badge-y thingy and whatnot. But for now: That’s my idea.

What do you think?

Saturday Night Fever: Cum play Scrabble with me!

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ending game board from a Scrabble app, with the final letters spelling CUM
Notice the last letters I had left to play…

HARD-SCRABBLE FEVE

So you all know that words are kind of my schtick, right?

I write them (obvs), I play with them, I give them double meanings. I tease (and get teased) with them, I explore their possibilities, I feel them out — literally — physically rolling them around in my mouth…

And, when the opportunity presents itself, I puzzle them out. Like, literally. In Scrabble-y word-puzzle fashion.

*grin*

So what happened was this: Someone in my life was feeling the need for more connection, and I as reminded of the way I used to stay connected — continuously — by sharing words with one of my friends on a Scrabble app. Person One asked me to use Words With Friends (which I quickly learned to dislike — because, dumbass trolling-for-ass men think the chat function within the game is for highly stimulating [NOT] “hey baby, you so fine” conversations); Person Two, who totally groks me in ways nobody else does (and vice versa), offered up WordFeud as a solution.

So now I am playing Scrabble-y games all day long with both people.

And sometimes, with other people. 🙂

And y’know…

I didn’t realize how much I missed it!

I used to play Fightin’ Words with Person Two all.the.TIME when we both had Blackberry phones and it was a total blast. It’s such a fantastic brain exercise — you’re working both the linguistics and the mathematics capabilities of your brain when you play word puzzle games — but it’s also great vocab-calisthenics. Like: Hello, letter Q. Shall I make jonquil or suq or qis or piqued? Oh so many choices!

*laugh*

Playing like this again, though… It’s also a bit of a Personality Type thing. Not in an MBTI kind of way. Just…

Let’s just say it’s telling.

I use the whole board. I’m more interested in expanding possibilities and utilizing good words than getting points. If you play against me (and ‘against’ is an issue; I play ‘with’ people, not ‘against’) and you make it about points — especially if you play for the short win, focusing only on *that* turn and jamming up the board because all you care about is the points for that round instead of in exploring all the options or setting yourself up to enjoy the long game —

Well.

You see where I’m going, yes?

[pause, while y’all apply that analogy as you please]

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I think there must be something seriously wrong with me.

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Because as soon as I finished writing my final post for this year’s A-to-Z Challenge*, I was already thinking about ALL THE WAYS to approach the challenge next year.

:laugh:

Like, I could:

  • do some sort of books & authors thing — starting with Dame of the British Empire: Agatha Christie [ABCDE — Woot!], or
  • choose words that end in ABC, such as:
    • iota
    • Zagreb
    • Cadillac (ooh — a subset: words that start and end with the same letter!)
    • dandified
    • edamame
  • use words in which the first letter repeats at some point (C is for Coccyx, G is for Guggenheim, etc.)
  • work backwards and forwards at the same time, ala A, Z, B, Y, C, X, D, V, etc.
  • use previous blog posts I’ve published as alphabetical inspiration, like:
    • [inspired by Aflame] — How To Use Hot Wax To Create Hot Sex
    • [inspired by Bookworm] — 20 Ridiculous Things You Wish YOUR Husband Would Say to YOU
    • [inspired by Clotheslined] — How, exactly, did I not kill myself playing Tarzan as a child?
  • etcetera

I am such a word nerd.

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