Sunday Snippets #4: Book keeping
Here is something more of an absentee post. Nevertheless, I think it would be wise to at least set 10 minutes of my time just to indulge in my question. If you decide to join, please let me know. I would love it loads!!
Bookworm or not, almost everybody has books, so the question is:
How do you keep your books?
Reminder: This is a free writing meme, so set your timers to 10-20 minutes and just write down all your thoughts about the topic, or not, and forget about the errors, the grammar, the spelling. Write fast, but do not rush. Ready? GO!
Sunday Snippets #3
I just had one of the longest weeks of my life. Today just could not get any worse… Still, I shall blog to keep an open mind about the things that have happened, and allow myself to lift the weight in my heart and my shoulders by asking you to comment on this situation:
True story: Earlier today, I was robbed. What started off as my extension of helpfulness somewhat turned against me when I tried to help somebody who was looking for the ladies’ room. Apparently, the lady was a theif, and she had an accomplice who was stealing my wallet as I was indicating the location of the ladies’ room. In my wallet was basically my whole identity, and all of my money: cash cards, ATM, IDs, and marriage certificate. I simply thought she was a student who did not know her way around the place. When I learned about the theft, and most importantly of the modus, I was fuming.
Now my question is this: If you saw the lady again, what would you do?
Reminder: This is a free writing meme, so set your timers to 10-20 minutes and just write down all your thoughts about the topic, or not, and forget about the errors, the grammar, the spelling. Write fast, but do not rush. Ready? GO!
Sunday Snippets #2: Dr. Seuss and I
Sorry for being AWOL last Sunday. Anyway, here is the second Sunday Snippets for you to enjoy. Here is a quote from Dr. Seuss’ “Oh, the Places You’ll Go.”, and at the bottom of it is the question you are to answer:
“You have brains in your head.
You have feet in your shoes.
You can steer yourself
any direction you choose.
You’re on your own.
And you know what you know.And YOU are the one who’ll decide where to go.”
“What do you think when you read the quote?”
Reminder: This is a free writing meme, so set your timers to 10-20 minutes and just write down all your thoughts about the topic, or not, and forget about the errors, the grammar, the spelling. Write fast, but do not rush. Ready? GO!
Sunday Snippets #1
Kicking off Sunday Snippets, we shall start with a nice familiar question that goes:
“If you could be any person in the world, who would you be, and why?”
Reminder: This is a free writing meme, so set your timers to 10-20 minutes and just write down all your thoughts about the topic, or not, and forget about the errors, the grammar, the spelling. Write fast, but do not rush. Ready? GO!
Sunday Snippets: A Free Writing Meme
I have always wanted to start my own meme but I really did not have the time to come up with the rules and regulations of the meme. Zee had me make the rules – which I did not intend to work on really, but I now I have.
Okay so Sunday Snippets is the name of the meme. Lainee Lang helped me come up with an idea to make it a free writing meme/prompt. Our inspiration was our EL 33 classes which helped us pretty much open the flood gates to our so-called “creativity”.
What is free writing? Please do not panic, it is really not a scary thought. As Mr. Wiki put it, “Free writing (also stream-of-consciousness writing) is a writing technique in which a person writes continuously for a set period of time without regard to spelling, grammar or topic.” It means that you just write and write whatever comes to mind regarding the question at hand, irregardless of possible spelling problems, continuity problems, or even topic problems. (say what?!) Well, yes, topic should be in mind, but I guess it would be clearer in the RULES area of the meme.
The rules are pretty much based on Natalie Goldberg’s “Rules for Free Writing” but I added a few and twisted some here and there. The rules are as follows:
- Set up a time limit of around 10 to 20 minutes for writing, and when the time is up, you should stop.
- Once you have decided to start writing, make sure you keep tapping those keyboards, and do not even pause just to start at a nail or go over what you have read. Just write everything that is on your mind on that instant – be quick about it but do not rush.
- Within the time you are writing, disregard thoughts of grammar, punctuation, spelling, neatness, style, or whatever. This time, the act of writing is important and not exactly the style or quality of your post. Think of it as an exercise.
- If you run out of ideas regarding the topic, just keep writing anyway. If worse comes to worst, just write whatever comes into your head – just write until your time is up.
- If you feel bored with my prompts (sorry, I will try to come up with really good ones), ask yourself what is bothering you, i.e., “Why do I dislike the prompt?”, “Why do I feel so tired today?”. It does not matter if it is far off base, just write about it.
- Do not “spell check”, do not reread it – just post it. Just write a disclaimer at the bottom if you feel uneasy writing without double checking. You could redirect your reader to this blog for the rules.
- Please try to visit those who have joined the meme.
- Please include this banner before every post.
FYI: You may not do it on a Sunday, really. You can answer it some other time. Just make sure you do answer it before I release the next question – which will be next Sunday.
As of the moment, I have no idea how to configure Mr. Linky, so I will update you as I go. I will, however, make it a point to link back to those who have joined. 
Okies? Okay!
Suggestions, and violent reactions are welcome. I hope to hear from and read from you!
*banner courtesy of scrappin whiz Zeeeeeeeeeeee*
