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Blog Prompts and Other Misdemeanors

Fiḍál (Grace), 18 ‘Alá’ (Loftiness) 175 B.E. - Tuesday, March 19, 2019

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30-Day Blogging Challenge ON HIATUS  (13+) WDC's Longest Running Blog Competition - Hiatus #1786069 by Fivesixer

PROMPT: March 19th - With bloggers coming and going all the time, and multiple blogging groups and challenges on this site, how do you feel about writing about the same prompt more than once? Can you take it in a new direction? Discover something new?

Blog Prompts and Other Misdemeanors

I don't mind writing about the same prompt a couple of times, if I can think of a new approach or have something more to say about the subject. Lately, I've found myself uninspired by some of the prompts. Sometimes I don't respond to the prompt, and sometimes I push myself to find a response. I've also asked myself if I can still write an entry without responding to a prompt. The solution to both issues is a timed free-write; when I do this type of exercise--without worrying thinking about my response--I usual find something I can use. If I can't find anything I can rewrite, I can make the free-write the response.

Another solutions, which just popped into my mind, is to begin with an odd, unusual, weird, or thought provoking title (this explains the title of this entry) and write from there. I came up with that title after I started this entry, so perhaps the solution is to write the entry's first paragraph or stanza and use the first title that pops into my brain. Once I start writing, I normally, don't have a problem finishing the entry. Sometime I have a problem remaining on the subject, which is why I think a timed or untimed free-write is a good idea. I seldom use untimed free-writes because nature or something else always interrupts, and my untimed free-write becomes a timed free-write.

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Blog City ~ Every Blogger's Paradise  (E) Blog City - Every Blogger's Paradise. #1972895 by Lyn's a Witchy Woman

DAY 1918: “Fame would strike someone, usually the kind that healthy-minded people would not wish upon themselves, such as being kidnapped and kept prisoner for years, suffering humiliation in a scandal, or surviving something typically fatal.” ~ Viet Thanh Nguyen from Black-Eyed Women What are your thoughts on fame? Do you believe it is as bad as Viet Thanh Nguyen says?

Fame and Happiness

Fame and happiness
are the mutually exclusive?

Fame isn't something that should be pursued like a run away pet. I don't think it should or can be entirely avoided. It is something that can come and go in life. Some people are world famous, while others are famous in a particular nation, culture, religion, etc. I don't believe fame makes a person a prisoner, unless the person allows it to do that. I also don't thing humiliation and scandal always results from fame. I think the humiliation and scandal part are cause by the individuals themselves.

Fame is a piece of candy;
consume it in moderate amounts.

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Blogging Circle of Friends   (E) A group for WDC bloggers. #1901868 by Lyn's a Witchy Woman

Day 3212: Write a good news entry. Find some good news in your areal of the world, on the internet, or in your life. Give us the highlights.

Good News

The good news is that spring, in the northern hemisphere is just a few days away. The good news is that, even in these times of disaster, hate, and death, you can always find good news if you do an internet search for "good news". There are more people in the world who follow Christ's injunctions to love your neighbors and pray for your enemies than those who break those injunctions. In order to find them you have to search for them and any other piece of good news there is. So, when the bad news focus of the media is causing you depression or getting you down search for the good news.