Teachers Write

Here's the Monday Morning warm-up from Jo! This is actually today's assignment! OMG.

Rachel's mom had instructed her to go downstairs to change the cat litter, and she did so, stomping down each step. It was summer! It wasn't raining yet today! Who cares if the trash came today? It would come next week too! No reason to rush it. Besides, when did they ever change the litter? Or make Jason do it? A dog would have been so much easier.

It's Poetry Time!

So I'm catching up on the actual writing (not too far behind!) although I'm not very good at participating in the comments section. I suppose I'd have to be even more on top of things for that.

Anyway, today's challenge is about poetry from Liz Garton Scanlon. It's supposed to be a 12-line poem with either an 'abab/cdcd' rhyme scheme or 'aa/bb/cc' scheme.  Let's see what I come up with.

The birthday blues are here to stay
How can I make them go away?

I thought that 30 would be fun.
The confidence battle over, done.

Instead I feel much the same
No celebration to my name.

No party ideas, no fun with friends,
Instead my brain filled with dead ends.

Three days later, clouds disappear
My happiness returned, it's dear.

I'll have lots of fun hanging out
With friends milling all about.


It seems incomplete at 12 lines, but it feels like it captures what I was feeling last week and what I'm feeling today. The computer had a meltdown a week ago that I haven't been able to catch up with.

Teachers Write Day One

So this year I'm trying, again to do Teachers Write. I wasn't super successful last year, but I'm hopeful I'll be more successful this year, even as I complete an entry a day behind schedule already. You know what, though, that's okay. I will do my best, and it'll be what it will be.

So I'm starting with Jo Knowles' post that's a Monday Morning Warm-Up. It's called "White Page Day," and we're supposed to be writing about our current project. At this point, I don't really have a "project." I just want to write more often. Maybe a project will come, maybe it won't. I'm finding it hard at this point to even write book reviews though, so I'm hoping that just the practice of writing will lead to an easier time of it overall.

So, I would like to write
To get into a habit of writing
To ease some stress by doing something that isn't
My job
Reading
Zoning out in front of a screen (despite the fact that I'm using a screen now)
I have pretty journals.
I can use both!
I would like to write because
I've been told I would be good at it
And whether I am or not
There are stories inside me that need to get out
Stories I want to save for history
Even if it's just a chronicle of my days
A future author might use that for their historical fiction research.