Motivational Monday: A Good Start to a New Week

Kamal (Perfection), 9 Bahá (Splendour), 173 BE - Monday, March 28, 2016 about 8:06 AM Pacific Daylight Time

I've had a good start this week. On Sunday I wrote over 2,000 words and finished a short story for a contest on writing.com. Today I wrote a 296 word flash fiction and entered it into another contest. I still have another short story to write this week, but I'm sure that I can get it done by Friday.

Writing motivation
just sit down at the computer
open a blank document and begin to write.

The voice of doubt has faded. It isn't telling me how hard it is to come up with an idea. It isn't telling me I can't write the piece I'm planning. I don't know how long that irritating voice will be silent, but while it's silent I'll write. When I'm not writing then I'll read, say prayers, or watch television. As long as I can keep my mind focused on something then the voice will remain silent.

Television gave me
the titles for two poems
that I wrote last week.

Within the past couple of weeks I have found two titles and a plot for a story while watching television. I don't watch sitcoms anymore instead I tend to watch documentaries, news programs, or reality shows. I think I like the reality shows because they are nothing like the reality I'm experiencing in my life.

I used to think I had patience

Istiqlál (Independence), 3 Asma (Names), 165 B.E. – Friday, August 22, 2008 about 6:42 AM PDT

I used to think I had patience, but that was before I learned how to tab brows with a telephone hook-up to the Internet. Perhaps, I do still have patience when it comes to dealing with people, but not when it comes to dropped Internet connections. All right, this is my own fault if I was not convinced that I needed to tab browse this issue would not confront me.

I do have to tab browse because I sometimes have to consult other websites when I am making a blog entry or doing research. I am a writer and tab browsing is essential to what I do. Take this morning for instance. When I was composing the entry for Poet 999's Thoughts about Writing and Other Stuff, I had to consult the website Extraterrestrial Highway for some information on State Route 375 in Nevada. I was responding to today's Writing Practice Prompt "You picked up a hitchhiker". My response to the prompt concerned an imagined encounter on that route on Halloween.

The working title for You picked up a hitchhiker is Halloween on the Extraterrestrial Highway. This is a piece of flash fiction and contains about 300 words. I don't think I will add any more to the story because it feels complete the way it is.

To get back to tabbed browsing and my Internet connection, when I tab browse the connection is dropped at irregular intervals. Fortunately, it didn't go out when I was composing the entry or I would be more frustrated then I am. I do save the blog entries at regular intervals when I am composing. The problem is the dropped connection and reconnecting derails my train of thought and I causes me to forget the next sentence or paragraph is was going to write.

Eventually I am going to get DSL, but for now I'm just going to have to exercise my patience. Exercising builds up muscles, so my patience with technology should improve.

I Finally Got a New Mouse

Jamal (Beauty), 16 Sultan (Sovereignty), 164 B.E. - Sunday, February 3, 2008 about 10:26 PM PST

My new mouse arrived Thursday and I connected it today. There seems to be something special about beginning the week with something new. I didn't know how much fun it was to use a mouse until I connected it. Maybe I need to get out and get a life.

Today is cloudy and windy with a chance of scattered showers. I won't get out today because I have things to do around the house. I'm catching up on things I didn't get completed Thursday evening. I was ill that evening in pain and throwing up. I went to bed early but didn't get much sleep. So I'm catching up of stuff today. I'm doing fairly well at catching up too.

The only writing I have to catch up on are some Flash Fiction Stories. Because I was ill Thursday, I'm three days behind on those, but not for long. I left the Flash Fiction for last because they are short and I usually use prompts to get them going.

This week I'm going to post the themed entries on different days then I originally planned. I'll get them all in, but I don't think I'm going to do them on a specific day. After all variety is the spice of life, in addition I don't want to get in a rute with my entries.