Friday Five Minute Exercise - Taking Risks

1. Set your clocks/timers for Five (5) Minutes.

2. Write about Taking Risks. Is your life as a writer a risky one? Do you see it as an adventure? Do you feel blessed because you have a passion for writing? Write about the risk you take in life if you do not listen to your heart and write. Does the risk of losing the chance to experience life as a writer outweigh the risk of failure?

Get into as much detail as you can for the next five minutes.

3. Ready?

4. Go.

5. Finished? Review and be amazed.

I hope you had fun. Come back next Friday for a new writing prompt.

Was this exercise helpful?

Did you succeed with this writing exercise? Was it helpful? Do you have a passion for writing? Do you take risks? If your life as a writer a risky one? Can you write about the risk you take in life if you do not listen to your heart and write? Have you found that the risk of losing the chance to experience life as a writer outweighs the risk of failure? Was this exercise helpful? Did you enjoy it?

Why or Why Not?

Blessed are the Weird People

You know you're weird, right?

Oh, no one told you that before? Well, let me be the first.

You're weird.

You write.

You're weird.

I'm weird, well, for other reasons besides writing, but I'll admit it, I'm weird.

We all have to be a little bit weird to come up with the kinds of things we do when we write. I like to write from my dreams, and boy-howdy can I come up with some doozies. And, those are just the ones I write down.

Let's not even discuss the dreams I don't write down. Some are just way too off the weird chart for even me.

I'm going to open up this blog post for anyone and everyone who wants to see if they can "out weird" the other.

Let's have it. What's you're weirdest thing you've ever written? It doesn't have to be something that was published. Just what you've written.

Bring them out of the closet and shake off the dust. Polish them a bit and let's see them - in all their lovely weirdness.

Do you want weird? How about this? I wrote about aliens coming to our world in a giant lobster shaped space ship to hunt the famous lobster hunter down in the Florida Keys. What'd they do with this famous hunter when they found him? Why boiled him and had him with a side of butter!

Now it's your turn.

What weirdness have you written?