Welcome to Five Minute Friday - where we stop for 5 minutes and pour out brave words on the screen. Lisa-Jo gives us a word, or a phrase. Something to run with. And off we go. 240 plus writers all linking words together.
The rules are simple:
1. set your timer and write for 5 minutes. No edits. No backtracks. Just write. Typos and spelling errors welcome.
2. Link up here with the gang
3. (the only unbreakable rule) go read the post of the one who linked before you and leave a word of encouragement in the comments. That's the heart of the FMF community.
This week: WRITE.
HA. HA. HA. I don't even like to write. At least that is what I believed for a really long time. There's a reason I was a math major, and it;s not entirely because I love numbers. I do, but there are significantly fewer papers required for a math major than say an English major.
But then last year I discovered OneWord 365. And I needed a way to share my thoughts outside the facebook comments of what I was learning. And then I thought I would play around with it a bit. And then I discovered, that OH. MY. WORD. Something happened and I learned that maybe I do actually like to write. At least when someone gives me a topic and sets a timer so the end is in sight.
Things I have discovered since becoming a single mom:
1. I might like to write
2. I CAN run a half marathon and survive.
3. I CAN walk 39 miles in a weekend, year after year, for a good cause and because I love it.
4. I CAN run this household on my own, and hold down a full time more than 40 hour per week job and help with homework and bathe the kids and cook and drive in the city. I don't do it all on my own - wothout my faith and God holding me every step of the way I'd fall flat on my face.
BUT it doesn't take my ex-husband to hold the world together. I am independent and a survivor and a warrior and can do it all with grace.
with writing to help me let it out or put it together 5 minutes at a time.
stop.
NOTE: I edited one thing ... "bit" was typed as "but". Which was perhaps interpreted as "butt" and that just didn't work.
I was totally the same way! I'm a total math nerd. I sometimes will even do math problems for fun...and now I work in accounting.
ReplyDeleteI was sort of good at writing in school but not as good as others...and I didn't really enjoy it...and I still have issues with grammar occasionally and sometimes I use the wrong there/its/your (don't ask about the evil comments I've gotten on those errors).
Thanks for being my FMF on Sunday neighbor :)
And here I am, the English teacher, grinning for you. (One of my students once said she didn't think writing was important because Algebra had her heart, and she just said what she thought -- didn't need to write it down. . . . which entertained me.)
ReplyDeleteAnyway, I love seeing people finding out about words! :) And about all the possibles with God! Keep it up, FMF friend!
Hey! Visiting from FMF! I too didn't think I was a writer or could write anything either. So glad you found you love to write and that with God all things are possible. :)
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