Friday, July 11, 2025

Friday Writings #185: Don’t be Afraid to Start Over

 


Hello, Word Artists and Admirers! There are plenty of scary things in this world. (Way, way too many.) One thing that doesn't have to be scary is starting over. Sure it can be a little frustrating, a little embarrassing even. But there's one thing that we have now that we didn't have the first time around. Experience. We're a lot smarter about the things to avoid now and with a little luck will be able to see the right way forward a lot more clearly.


This week's optional prompt is to find inspiration in the following quote: “Don’t be afraid to start over. This time you’re not starting from scratch, you’re starting from experience.” I'm taking prose and poetry, fiction and non-fiction. Just be sure to keep your word count to 369 or fewer and one entry per person, please.

Next week, the optional prompt will be, "Survive out of spite".



13 comments:

  1. I realise belatedly I didn't really write to the prompt, only thought I was! Oh well.

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  2. Hi Rosemary - I couldn't;t leave a comment at your site today for some reason - I would have said - I love your succinct wisdom - both in how your poem is laid out and the words and message within - Jae

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    1. Thanks, Jae, for taking the trouble to comment here. I appreciate your appreciation!

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  3. Hi Rall - can't comment to you either - Mine is - I love how you make us see both the floating and falling - Jae

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  4. Thanks for the prompt. I think many would agree that relationships fall into this category...

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  5. Like Rosemary, it turned out my inspiration wasn't quite what the prompt was suggesting! Still inspired by it though, so that counts!

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  6. Well, I played around with a new verse form. I thought of posting it here and leaving room for speculation about my having discarded a traditional verse form...which I've done, of course, though not immediately before playing with "elevenies." But the post probably contains more than 300 words, anyway.

    PK

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    1. Damn! But (a) you are allowed 369 excluding title and notes (not merely 300), (b) 'probably'? Can't your computer do a word count for you? and (c) I find that cutting things down to the word limit usually makes for even better poetry.

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