January | 2012 | The View Outside

Is it over now? All that Christmas and New Year malarkey ;o) Can I take the tree down?

So today, a return to normality? I do hope so 🙂

I managed quite well with my first writing prompt yesterday. I want to use them to inspire short stories. Yesterday’s one ended up being about a woman waiting for her son to come home from a New Years Eve party. Only, he’ll never return……no matter how many News Years Eve’s she waits for him. A bit sad and morbid I know, but what can I say…..it’s what came to me 😉

Today’s prompt is write about ashes

No ideas springing to me immediately, so I guess I’ll just start writing and see what comes up.

I haven’t done any work on my course these last couple of days, so I really should try to get some done….I’m just not feeling very motivated at the moment. Oh well, perhaps that’s to do with the holidays 😦

I made my first entry in my Mslexia Diary yesterday and had a quick flick through all the competitions, see which ones I want to enter…. There are loads so I better pull my finger out lol

I made my first post to the FaceBook Group Status Stories yesterday….You have to write a short story of less than 100 words. I’m determined to upload one every week 😉

And just quickly before I go…. A great quote I read yesterday regarding the New Year and resolutions…… “all manner of wondrous things are possible” Victoria Moran….2012 is gunna be a good year…. I’m excited 😉

Happy New Year!!!!!

OMFG….it’s 2012…..can you believe it?

We had a quiet New Years Eve….decided not to go anywhere this year. We’ve done the fireworks up London, the parties, even went away to a posh hotel last year….so it was kinda nice to just snuggle on the sofa with a glass of bubbly 🙂

I had a bad dream the night before last, so I spent much of yesterday mulling it over and turning it into a story idea lol. Not sure hubby would find it amusing though….. What if, on a normal weekday morning you woke to find your hubby/wife wasn’t in bed next to you. That they’d completely disappeared? Some clothes were gone, along with their passport, some money you’d been stashing and a few personal effects. They weren’t answering their mobile, their car was gone and they didn’t arrive for work? Hmmmmmm…..I have an idea for what has happened in that scenario, but I’ll stop there 😉

I don’t often have dreams, only usually nightmares, but I’m beginning to get into the habit of writing them down and seeing how I can turn them into stories 🙂

Today, I will be starting The Writers Book of Days……and the first prompt is:

things that enter by way of silence (after Mark Strand) …who? Ahhhhh, the poet Mark Strand

Interesting…….will mull it over with a cup of tea before I put pen to paper 😉