‘Is there junk in your life?’ asks the latest of ‘365 Days of Writing Prompts.’ Well of course there is. ‘Junk’- in all its burgeoning variety of forms – is an inescapable adjunct to modern life. Some – maybe even most – junk doesn’t start out that way: it’s simply stuff that gets overtaken by events, or…
“State of your year. Write up a mid-year ‘State of my Year’ post.” Still alive, still married, still solvent. The rest is detail. No news is good news, but it doesn’t provide much meat for a new post. Instead, let’s look at how things are going in relation to the ‘365 Days of Writing Prompts’…
It’s always nice to get compliments, perhaps especially from strangers. In the blogosphere, nothing can be better relied on to put a metaphorical spring in the step than getting a WordPress notification that somebody has ‘liked’ your latest post (even if they almost certainly didn’t go so far as to believe that it was ‘pretty…
the only deadhead in the hameau 