Not so prompt…

Yesterday’s Daily Prompt from the Daily Post sets the challenge of naming the 8th deadly sin.

Hit and miss – and being off target…

It has to be setting personal blogging goals, announcing them publically on your blog, then forgetting, letting life carry you away with other things…

• I set a goal here, last month, to refresh on blogging101 tasks. I got about a quarter of the way through and stalled. Never mind, I hadn’t signed up for class and can just keep going in my own time. Some of those tasks are good to go repeatedly or need regular revisiting anyway…
• Eight days ago, I decided I would make a post here at least once a week. Then I forgot as the days slipped by. So this post is a day beyond that deadline – but Sunday is a good day for a sinful post, so be it. And writing about the eighth sin on the eight day since last posting and doing so on a Sunday, seems quite appropriate.

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On a more positive note, I have kept up for the whole of January with the threewordsaday challenge, making a response post every day so far this year (at Snailzpace Daily). I’d like to think I can manage a whole year with it. I’ve also just taken on the extra challenge of working through past prompts from the beginning of threewordsaday. starting yesterday, with an acrostic poem, LIMITS…

I enjoy responding spontaneously to the prompts and I’ve written quite a few poems as a result – just not in my poetry blog – doh! But SnailzpaceDaily is my rough workbook space and many of my responses are just ‘starters’ to go back to. I might start reposting some of my better poems, or those I rework, to my poetry blog and start reviving there soon. Occasionally, I manage a short paragraph of fiction or creative writing I always intend to go back to and write on.

Actually, I’ve a lot of started things I mean to go back to, but never finish yet … so maybe that’s the ninth sin …starting things and leaving them unfinished…

Hoping I’m not guilty of the first seven deadly sins, hopefully I’ll not go to the hell for the eighth and ninth!

Do either my 8th or 9th sin fit for the cardinal sin of ‘sloth’? If so, I maybe have more to worry about than I first assumed!

How about you?  What would you list as the eighth (and ninth) sin? – assuming you’re free of the first seven, but must have one or two minor sins you need to confess?

 

 

B101 + W101 Day 11 – Procrastinating sleep with a coffee update

If we were having coffee right now…I’d be risking the sack! Don’t get me wrong, I love my coffee – preferably black – without a strong coffee, my wakefulness is slack.  Caffeine’s what keeps me going, I need it all day long – but by this time in the evening, to drink a coffee would be wrong. If procrastinating sleep, then coffee would be fine – but I have to stop drinking coffee WAY before nine! So you were hoping for an update, over coffee and this prompt? I’ll have to take a rain-check, as soon up my stairs I’ll stomp… If you’d really like a coffee date, how does the weekend sound? I know I’m procrastinating, but my bedtime soon comes round…

(PROSE POEM – In response to Blogging101 Day11- make a prompt personal, combined with the DPprompt linked above and writing101 day11 to update readers over coffee)

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