This
meme was started by Delores a long time ago. Computer issues led her
to bow out for a while. The meme was too much fun to let go, and now
Words for Wednesday is provided by a number of people and has become a
movable feast.
Essentially
the aim is to encourage us to write. Each week we are given a choice
of prompts: which can be words, phrases, music or an image. What we
do with those prompts is up to us: a short story, prose, a song, a
poem, or treating them with ignore... We can use some or all of the
prompts, and mixing and matching is encouraged.
Some
of us put our creation in comments on the post, and others post on
their own blog. I would really like it if as many people as possible
joined into this fun meme, which includes cheering on the other participants. If you are posting on your own blog - let me know so that I, and other participants, can come along and applaud. And huge thanks to those of you who come back, sometimes time after time to cheer other contributors on.
The prompts will be here this month, provided by me.
This
week's prompts are:
- Wash
- Fresh
- Extreme
- Jelly
- Exfoliate
And/or
- Relaxing
- Pure
- Thick
- Minerals
- Citrus
Sometimes I think that advertisers assume that we are all thick. Thicker than the proverbial brick. I suspect that many of their claims are pure horsefeathers.
ReplyDeleteAs anyone else noticed that the people they show using their skin creams (those designed to reduce wrinkles) are young, fresh faced and probably decades away from that questionable evil? Exfoliate, exfoliate the cry goes up (which always makes me think of the Daleks).
Speaking for myself I don’t find the thought of slathering a jelly containing a collection of minerals (despite their citrus scent) over my face and body relaxing.
It might be extreme, but a simple face wash and daily moisturiser is enough for me.
Innit the truth? Always enjoy your acerbic wit. Hugs
DeleteExcellent use of the prompts, as always! Those advertisers drive me nuts. I figure if anybody is horrified by the wrinkles on my face, they can just look away. Not my problem. :-)
DeleteThose things do seem a bit much to me, too, as does the constant chasing of youth and beauty. There are too many other worthwhile goals to chase.
DeleteA simple face wash? Now, that's hard core!
DeleteI'm with you 100% on this. All I need is a face wash and moisture cream. Good sensible use of the prompts.
DeleteI agree with you, all those women are light years away from even a suggestion of a wrinkle, and those advertising diet foods are the same, bunch of slim jims without an ounce of fat anywhere.
DeleteHow well you use your words. The women in the ads always look great, even if they're not all that young. I have never and will never look as good as they do no matter what potions and lotions I use.
DeleteLove,
Janie
Such a fabulous use of the words. In this game there is Sue and then the rest of us also-rans!
DeleteDavid M. Gascoingne: Thank you. Not so but far otherwise. I am blown away week after week by the use other people make of the prompts.
DeleteI think you're right. It's an unrealistic world in Advertising Land.
DeleteSo true, I also laugh at those adds, My homemade soap and plain old water is what makes me tick! Well written!
DeleteA wash with fresh water and an exfoliate removed the extreme jelly mask I'd ill advicedly placed on my face.
ReplyDeleteNice one!
DeleteExcellent!
DeleteSandra Cox: Hear, hear.
DeleteQuite a challenge for "Captain Succinct".
DeleteWell said.
DeleteVery neat. Well done.
DeleteA mistake not to be made again!
DeleteExtreme jelly masks sounds yucky ;) Well done.
DeleteGetting to it.
ReplyDeleteAunt Marigold claimed the words for a short-short snippet.
Deletemessymimi: I am looking forward to hearing what Aunt Marigold has to say.
DeleteYou have fun with this, don't you!
ReplyDeleteJenn Jilks: I do - and hope that everyone who joins us does. And that includes the readers.
DeleteHi Sue: It will probably be Thursday before I get to it. I am leading a full day's outing tomorrow, leaving home at 7:30 am.
ReplyDeleteDavid M. Gascoigne: Not a problem. I look forward to your return - and to seeing photos from your outing.
DeleteExtremely relaxing: Wash some fresh citrus fruits, exfoliate them, add some pure minerals and feed all to your thick jelly fish.
ReplyDeleteSean Jeating: I hope that citrus is a treat for jelly fish (thick or thin). I am smiling at your take on my prompts.
DeleteA fun take, as always.
DeleteI hope your thick jelly fish appreciate what you do for it.
DeleteHeh. Thumbs up.
DeleteSounds promising, though perhaps not for the jelly fish.
DeleteVery relaxing! Watching thick jellyfish eating exfoliate lemons sounds a little better than watching paint dry.
DeleteI plan to make a fresh citrus drink tomorrow 😋 while eating a cheeseburger 🍔 . Great prompts, and hope everything is going well in your world. Always think about you and the great things do for the community. Hugs 🤗 RO
ReplyDeleteRO: Thank you for joining us - enjoy that citrus drink and your cheeseburger. I am one of many, but thank you.
DeleteInteresting selection of words, melding them into a story might be like nailing jelly to a wall.
ReplyDeleteRiver: Do I detect that when you say interesting you mean awful? I hope not and look forward to seeing what you do with them.
DeleteHi EC - thanks for these ... I know I'm way behind and will catch up last week's as well as today's entries ... I will have more time after this week! Here's my entries for both sets:
ReplyDeleteThe instructions are to WASH, to feel FRESH, eat EXTREME JELLY, and while EXFOLIATING workout one's entry for Elephant's Child's Words for Wednesday.
So be it … that I'll do – but post it here in case anyone thinks I'm still slacking … the brain ticks along at what I've no idea … not Words for Wednesday that appears to be for sure!!
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After today RELAXING is on the cards, the PURE enjoyment of being wrapped in that THICK MINERAL face mask, with its hint of CITRUS infusions … oh the bliss to be encased in one of those hydrating lemon face masks.
Cheers to you all ... Hilary
That relaxing does sound good. Maybe after the holidays...
DeleteHilary Melton-Butcher: I hope your busyness is nearly over - and feel no guilt about W4W. It is designed as fun, not as something to be burdened with.
DeleteThat said, I am smiling at your use of the prompts and hope you do get some relaxation - with or without the thick mineral face mask.
A selfie, please, Hilary. ;-)
DeleteExtreme jelly - gotta look for that, Hilary!
DeleteNice one, Hilary. I hope you find some time to relax.
DeleteWoot. Woot.
Deletehehe I go with Sean - we need a selfie ;) Enjoy!
DeleteHilary, you are a good ambassador for the Thick Mineral Face Mask. It may be a lucrative new career.
ReplyDeleteRelaxing with a citrus drink laced with minerals while in a pool of pure thick heavy water that seems a bit warm.
ReplyDeleteIt does sound relaxing.
DeleteHe's in the Core Pool of a nuclear reactor.
DeleteMike: Shudder. Your reply to messymimi's comment adds a new (and nasty) perspective.
DeleteEnjoy your relaxing drink.
DeleteOh, dear. Awaiting his end, i would imagine.
DeleteI like you shorties!
DeleteHappy Writing, Gang!
ReplyDeleteThe Happy Whisk: Thank you.
DeleteJake had spent most of his adult life in the bush where a daily WASH meant little more that splashing a handful of water from the stream on his face. He was of the old school and PURE research was his forte. He had the stamina and the dedication, and a THICK skin to boot, to ignore creature discomfort and press on with the EXTREME conduct sometimes required to really get to the core of nature’s unending puzzles. He never gave much thought to RELAXING and probably the closest he ever came to it was enjoying a peanut butter and JELLY sandwich brought from the cabin, rather than living off the land as was his custom. Of late he had been collecting rocks for a museum of geology in addition to his normal ornithological studies and he was thrilled to come to MINERALS so late in life. He had finally begun to receive the recognition for the supreme field biologist that he was, unsurpassed in modern times, and he was to be awarded an honorary Doctor of Letters. Holed up in his hotel room he felt totally out of place, but he had a reception to go to. A visit to the spa had been delicately suggested where he would be made to look FRESH and smell of delicate CITRUS rather than the eau de forest that had infiltrated the room. An EXFOLIATING treatment had been highly recommended. What the hell did that mean – getting rid of his beard? The only exfoliating Jake knew of was of trees shedding bark. He had been provided with a business suit and a tie (which he was not going to wear however much they implored) and he was really wondering how the suit would look with hiking boots. No had thought to get him a pair of shoes.
ReplyDeleteDavid M. Gascoingne: This piece is a direct answer to your comment on my piece. I love it. Attar of eau de forest is a MUCH better scent than the artificial ones that the organisers had suggested. And I love the though of him teaming his suit with hiking boots.
DeleteI have a vivid image in my head - not unpleasing;-)
DeleteHe has earned that doctor of letters, i hope they allow him to accept it on his own terms, hiking boots, beard and all.
DeleteJay for Jake getting the recognition he deserves. Well done!
DeleteWell done.
Deletejabblog has joined us again - and I am loving her fun take on the prompts.
ReplyDeleteNon-working link, please try again.
DeleteSorry about that: TRYING AGAIN
DeleteMy short contribution about Susan.
ReplyDeleteI'm working on a poem. Back later
ReplyDeleteThe Blog Fodder: I look forward to seeing it - and it is lovely to see that your life has calmed down enough for you to consider playing this game again.
DeleteIt was fun to read all the comments for this week's words, Sue! I'm with you: wash my face and add a moisturizer. I really don't mind my wrinkles. They reflect my life. They're real. Some people look freaky after the things they done to themselves looking to appear youthful. I'm sure we all have our little vanities. Mine is dyeing my hair. I could go natural and did during Covid, but my gray hair depresses me. My three sisters have gorgeous gray hair, but mine is anything but. Overall, right now, I'm grateful for doing as well as I am at my age. All the best to you. I hope you, hubby, and kitties are doing well.
ReplyDeleteFundy Blue: I have earned my wrinkles. And my grey hair. I coloured it occasionally when I was a lot younger, but these days it is salt and pepper, and getting saltier by the day.
DeleteI kind of get freaked out when I see rodents, they often come in my dreams. I do like your discussions on them as they are quite informative.
ReplyDeleteTrin Carl: I assume you meant this comment for the post which follows. Our possums are not rodents but marsupials - I hope you think of them more kindly when they infiltrate your dreams.
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