Prompt 24 ~ take flight

...whichever way you can

~ You know what to do!  Go!

Prompt 23 - direct opposite

Lately things are so busy that I often end up needing that e-mail nudge from Heartful, "Remember to post up the 26n prompt - it's your turn" - thanks Heartful - you're fab!

So, as I know that tomorrow is going to be a hectic day, I'm being good for once and posting up a day early - which is unusual for me! I'm being early to avoid being late.

I've been carrying a birthday card around in my bag since the end of May - it's for a friend, her birthday is at the end of June. On the back of the envelope I wrote, "Don't open until 27th June!" as I fully intended sending it early - the thought was there, fully, fully...

...the card is still in my bag. I lie. The card is now sitting on the kitchen table. I took it out of my bag today, put it on the table in an attempt to remind myself to take it to work in my HAND tomorrow, so I remember to get a stamp and post it.

Sometimes we mean to do/say one thing, but instead we do the direct opposite. Sometimes we try to do the direct opposite, just to avoid what we hope we won't do. Does that make sense?

This post is a direct opposite. The card I wrote early was an attempt at a direct opposite (which is going decidedly pear-shape, with only a few days left to get that card to its overseas destination in time!).

Direct opposite - this week's prompt. Make of it what you will. If you decide to participate (and we'd be ever-so excited if you decided to - whoever, wherever you may be) and want to share then post up on your blog and let us know - we'll be over to read and if you like can link to it here too!

Prompt 22 ~ How to...

Make a list of 5 things you wish you could do. They can be as practical, dreamy, literal or illogical as you want.

Then pick one thing from the list and write a how to guide for it, from the point of view of an expert. You can do research on it (but if you do, give yourself a limit, the point is not to get bogged down in the research but use it as a springboard) or make it up as you go along. You can write it in any format you fancy - a list, a poem, an essay, an instruction manual etc.  You can make it as long or short as you want, as long as you have fun writing it.

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If you’d like to share what you’ve come up with, however rough or polished, post it on your blog and leave a comment below with your post's url. At least one of us will come over and read it.

Ta!

Prompt 21 - lost and found

Sometimes the little details contain the big ones. Think of something you found recently (maybe you picked it up, maybe you didn't). A coin? A button? A glove? A small glittery sequin heart?

It has a story behind it, although you'll never know what it was. Invent. Invent its story. Sometimes the little details contain the big ones.

We like to imagine that maybe once in a blue (or lilac or turquoise) moon, someone, somewhere, out there in blogland might happen across this blog. If you do, and if just by remote chance you happen to want to participate ...as ever, let us know and we'll link to what you've done and come have a look.

(It's kind of like being out in space, waiting for contact with other life forms.... there must be some out there, right?) :)

Prompt 20 ~ The End

"What we call the beginning is often the end.  And to make an end is to make a beginning.  The end is where we start from."  - TS Eliot

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Use this as your basket and your guide as you go foraging into the forests of your mind.  Then come back and show us what you've found.  We might even sit down and make a meal of it together.

Prompt 19 - 'I forgot'

My memory is like a sieve at the best of times, and now is worse! A zillion things to do in and out of work and I'm afraid that without Heartful to remind me I'm hopeless in blogland of late. I just received her much welcome e-mail reminding me "26n prompt!" ...thank you!!!

Anyhow, I decided that this time the prompt really has to be connected to forgetting. Some form of the word 'forget' must appear in the title. Forget, forgot, forgotten, forgetful, forgetting, unforgettable... you decide. This must be a central theme in whatever you write.

Have fun - if you remember to try this prompt, of course!

Prompt 18 ~ answers on a postcard

What are you avoiding?

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Answers on a postcard, blog post, square of toilet roll, an unused nappy, a post-it, a page torn out of your notebook...whatever you want.  Sit down and answer the question. 

If you feel like sharing, post it on your blog, or stick it in an envelope and add to the weight of a postman's sense of destiny fulfilled.  Someone, somewhere will read it.