Write (Five Minute Friday)

It's Friday. (Yes, it's Wednesday. But it's writing day, so it's Friday in my mind. Work with me.)  Five Minute Friday where we stop, write for 5 minutes (no edits!) and then link up here, and then go read some more lovely writing from the community flash mob of writers. Come along with us, won't you?

This week's word:

Write.

Five Minute Friday is really why I write.  It’s the thing that reminds me once a week to stop. Spill some thoughts. Collect some thoughts as just me – not work related. Not necessarily kid related, though sometimes they are. Nothing but whatever pops in your head about a random word.

Yet that “random” word isn’t really so random. At least for me. For me, it’s the peek into a world I was afraid to touch. A dive into something I don’t usually view myself as good at. A topic for one reason or another that I need to devote some time – at least 5 minutes to.  And on the whole something I have NEVER liked. Except for letters to my pen pals. And now, after several months of writing on Fridays (or the day closest after Friday when I make the time) I find myself looking forward to it. GASP. I actually LIKE taking a mjinute to write. Folks, there’s a reason I decided to be a math major. A distinct disdain for writing papers was near the top of the list, after my love of numbers and equations. Yes, I’m quirky like that. Numbers – another reason I love baseball. Writing – bottom of my list of to do’s. But thanks to this lovely community, this group of folks who will just “throw it out there” I think I may have found an outlet I didn’t know I needed.

Writing. Who’da thunk?

Stop.