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.
Huge thanks to Hilary Melton-Butcher for providing the prompts last month. The prompts will be here again this month and are provided by Charlotte (MotherOwl).
An additional prompt from Charlotte (MotherOwl) is her colour of the month to use (or not) in your take on the prompts. The colour for July is"Writing Pleasure Purple"
This week's prompts are:
- Ferry
- Determined
- Box
- Convey
- Paste
- First
And/or
- Family
- Astonish
- Obtain
- Avoid
- Magnificent
Have fun.
The news from yesterday's specialist appointment was not good. I will be absent for a while (hopefully from next week) for surgery and treatment. I will schedule the posts for the rest of the month and they will still appear.
Dear EC - good luck ... I'll be thinking of you - and wishing you the very best. I'm sure they'll take care of you ... sent with hot hugs from the northern hemisphere - cheers Hilary
ReplyDeleteNo one really knows how much she resents being FERRIED to the hospital one more time. Even her FAMILY is not fully aware of how utterly DETERMINED she is to CONVEY a false sense of wellbeing, dealing with matters far less serious than is the truth. She AVOIDS burdening her blogging friends, those bound by ties of friendship, love and affection, some of them there since the FIRST days of Blogspot before copy and PASTE was a useful tool. Always one to think outside the BOX, Sue ASTONISHES everyone with her MAGNIFICENT spirit and in the process OBTAINS the heartfelt good wishes of her extended world. The FIRST priority is to take care of the business at hand. Then it’s onwards and upwards. We are all there with you, Sue, our own precious, dear friend. If you feel buffeted, fear not. It is just the waves of love from around the world bumping into you. There are more to come.
ReplyDeleteDavid M. Gascoigne and Hilary Melton-Butcher: Thank you both so very much.
DeletePerfect use of the words David, and I'm sure all of us will endorse your thoughts here for Sue ... I definitely do - congratulations ... so thoughtful - and I know she'll appreciate it. Cheers for now - Hilary
ReplyDeleteSorry, quick and dirty today. My mind is in other places.
ReplyDeleteLucy loved ferry trips. She found the water calming and serene and was determined to take every opportunity to go on them. The winter trips could be chilly but she refused to stay inside in the box like cabin and stood (well rugged up) on the deck watching the trees glide by. Yes she knew it was the ferry moving but it was such a smooth ride it conveyed the impression that the trees were gliding. Beautiful things, with their bare branches filigreed against the sky.
Sometimes she thought that she should print her myriad photos and paste them into a scrapbook.
She decided against it. First and foremost who would be interested? Her family wouldn’t. There was nothing to astonish anyone though the gentle serenity was lovely. She had also decided to declutter – which was another reason to avoid collecting/compiling, obtaining more things. In any event the magnificent images were all in her rich memory banks. Age could not weary them not the years condemn…
Thank you for still hosting this. I have all fingers and what else can be crossed for you and a good result from the treatment.
ReplyDeleteI'm so sorry your news wasn't good. Sending you positive thoughts for a good outcome from your surgery and treatment.
ReplyDeleteI'm working on my story and praying for you always.
ReplyDeleteOh, sending you good thoughts and positive energy for a good outcome.
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