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July 22, 2015 I'm going to start today to record on a daily basis whatever happens to strike my fancy. So, it is a very cool breezy day. I just posted 5 short book reviews to The Monthly Reading Challenge. I'm suppose to put away some winter wood today from the woodpile outside but I'm playing hookey from work to write so starting this blog will get done. I'm having a daily fight with a flock of English Sparrows that are trying to take over my barn. They are making a terrible mess so they have to go. I have destroyed several nests so far they don't leave but they get out of the barn when I am around. I'm just starting the fight so I guess I don't know how far I have to go to discourage them. I'm trying not to spread myself to thin on WDC because I find so many things that are interesting here and I am trying to work on a new story. I really enjoy sitting at my desk with a cup of tea and reading blogs on WDC. |
What do you do when you are out of inspiration or ideas?   Three Quotes for today: “Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.” ― Mahatma Gandhi “Any fool can know. The point is to understand.” ― Albert Einstein “Don't Just Don't just learn, experience. Don't just read, absorb. Don't just change, transform. Don't just relate, advocate. Don't just promise, prove. Don't just criticize, encourage. Don't just think, ponder. Don't just take, give. Don't just see, feel. Don’t just dream, do. Don't just hear, listen. Don't just talk, act. Don't just tell, show. Don't just exist, live.” ― Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/tag/learning ENERGY TRANSFORMED This particular blog will be aimed at showing you. What? Not to ever worry about inspiration or ideas. Take a walk. Mow the lawn. Give a home to an orphan human or pet. Play with your dog or pet the cat. Call your Mom, Dad, sister, brother, best friend, neighbor. Go kayaking. Play your guitar or other musical instrument. Surf the Web. Take a day off to sit in a local pub and take notes about what is going on around you or a local library or a local shopping mall. Read a book. Knit. Crochet, build a chair, upholster something, sew a new shirt. Go online and take a new course about something you always wanted to learn. Clean the house. Buy a new hairbrush. Try using a prompt on WDC. Enter a contest on WDC. Review other peoples writing on WDC. Go for a drive on the back roads near where you live. Take yours writing equipment, buy an Ice Creme Cone, go sit by a lake and watch the wildlife go about their everyday business and think about what ever you think. Take up exercising because you need exercise to be healthy. Check out the local Salvation Army or yard sales or sale barns. (I apologize--it's pandemic--stay home--be safe but don't stagnate) there are lots of ways to age learning is a good one. Oh you thought we were talking about inspiration and ideas, not aging. Take a verb write it on a piece of paper and then think of all the ways you can use it to describe something. If you read all that? You are already inspired maybe to stop reading. I like to write, but I'm lazy about it, just not always motivated. I blog because 30-day gives me a subject and off I go. The few other stories I wrote it was because I looked at the prompt and found a story or taking a course with New Horizons Academy I have a book started at home. I'm into it in two different chapters. Both are unfinished, but I know what is going to be written next I just have not done it. I read 6 books in the last two weeks. Keeping my mind busy. I have a lot of things that need doing around the house but can't stand to work in the heat which is in the 90's everyday now. However, K fixed a tractor and the yard is mowed so we are coasting for now. K lost his part time job because of pandemic and we are trying to live together without too much irritation. If I focus on something then I do it. Sometimes inspiration or an idea is about focus. My mind is always busy thinking something and more than one teacher told me to focus so I guess that is the key word to remember FOCUS. WRITE ON! (P.S. I wrote a poem one morning but it is not edited.} |
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