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My First Post Challenge…

22 Jun 2015 26 Comments

by Ritu in Challenges Tags: Blog, Blog Post, Blogger, Blogging, Challenge

Thanks Judy, of Edwina’s Episodes, for nominating me for the First Post Challenge!

Here are the rules:

Copy-paste, link, pingback or whatever way you want to, your first post.
State what type of post that was. E.G. Introduction, Story, Poem
Explain why that was your first post.
Nominate 5 other bloggers. Five because I know the pain of opening a lot of tabs at once.

Way back in November 2014… at the end more or less, I stumbled upon blogging, and posted this… my first post.

It was an introduction to myself, in my Ritu-Style, and to be honest, I hadn’t a clue what I was going to do with this blog space…7 months later, this very space has created a space in my life, so big, that if I was to not blog for a day, I really feel it!

And I’d like to see the first posts of…

Ajay Vyas
Everyday Zen
Fill Your Own Glass
Live Laugh Love
Patchwork Rainbows

Freestyle writing challenge #4

21 Jun 2015 22 Comments

by Ritu in Challenges Tags: Blog, Blog Post, Blogger, Blogging, Challenge, Freestyle Writing

This is a funny thing, I get another nomination for the Freestyle writing challenge. And the actual topic to write on is the very one I had put for my nominees last time! I like it! Things are going round!

Anyway, back to the challenge in hand… My Kenyan Blog Pal Emmanuel, has challenged me to do the old freestyle writing challenge! If you haven’t already, please check out his blog, he had loads of great posts from poetry, recently, jokes, and all sorts!
1. Open a blank document.

2. Set a stop watch timer to 5 or 10 minutes, whichever length you prefer.

3. Your topic is at the foot of this post BUT DO NOT SCROLL DOWN TO SEE IT UNTIL YOU ARE READY WITH YOUR TIMER!!!

4. Once you start writing do not stop until the alarm sounds! Do not cheat by going back and correcting spelling and grammar using spell check (it is only meant for you to reflect on your own control of sensible thought flow and for you to reflect on your ability to write with correct spelling and grammar.)

5. You may or may not pay attention to punctuation or capitals

6. At the end of your post write down the number of words to give an idea of how much you can write within the time Frame.

7. Put the whole document onto your post and nominate 5 others and give them a new topic. Remember to copy paste the rules in!

What I thought life would be like as an adult, when I was a kid
Oh the innocence of childhood! It all seemed so simple then. We went to school, did all the hard work, the studying, the homework, the getting up early, the being forced to bed…
God, how I wished I was an adult! You got to get up when you wanted (it just happened to be earlier than us, for some reason!) you went to bed when you wanted. You ate whatever you felt like. When you went shopping there was always money in your purse, or that special plastic card that you inserted into that hole in the wall and it spat money out at you!
You chose what you wore, how you did your hair, went where you pleased, no one ordered you about, and made you do things you didn’t want.
What more could a kid want, than a life where you made your own choices, and we’re your own boss? I mean that’s what being an adult was all about right?
Jeez I wish that I could go back to my childhood self and tell her that one day she would be that adult, and she would be wishing she could be back in the cocooned safety of childhood, with no big choices to make, and no bills to worry about…”Bills?” She would say, “what bills?”
See, it’s far too easy to think you know everything as a kid! And that you are totally sure that life as an adult would be much better!
Oh boy, do we know better now.. As those very adults…!!!

Word Count: 257

Time:5 minutes

Challenge time!!!

I Refuse To Follow Your Blog
Cornfed Contessa
Jazzmelia
And you need to scroll down to find out your topic…

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Hopes and dreams…

Happy writing folks!

Veracity challenge

21 Jun 2015 33 Comments

by Ritu in Challenges Tags: Blog, Blog Post, Blogger, Blogging, Challenge

Here’s another new one!!!! Challenged by Akanksha to write a paragraph without adjectives…. What???!!! Noooooooo! Those that know me, know I’m a wordy person, I cannot help, but describe various things around!! This’ll be interesting!!!

Rules:

1) Write a paragraph without using a single adjective.

2) Keep the link of the original Veracity Challenge in your post (so that the creator of the challenge may receive a pingback)

3) Anyone can join the challenge, you don’t have to be nominated!

4) Nominate 6 Bloggers for this challenge

It was a day like any other, no different from the rest. A girl sat with her arms crossed against her chest, under the tree. She looked over at the boy, kicking a ball about with his friends. He looked like the kind of guy she could like. But she knew nothing about him… She couldn’t even really describe him to anyone… Why? Because she wasn’t allowed to use adjectives!!!!!

There you have it, I apologise if any adjectives slipped in along the way!!!

My ~~victims~~ nominees

The V-Pub

Wafflemethis
Tony Burgess
Edwina’s Episodes
Erika Kind
Chris The Story Reading Ape

Have fun!!!!

1 Liner Story Challenge

20 Jun 2015 25 Comments

by Ritu in Challenges Tags: 1 Liner Story Challenge, Blog, Blog Post, Blogger, Blogging, Challenge, writing

Oooh! A brand spanking new challenge from my love my blog pal, Rich, of Wafflemethis!!!

Rules

1. Write one line in the ongoing story, in italics.
2. Pass the challenge onto the next victim/Nominee.
3. Link back to your nominator.
4. Link back to Me, Waffles, if you could please, this could be very interesting.
5. Copy and paste all the previous story and add your line.

My Nominee is Erika!!!

And the story goes…

It was a warm sunny day and sea was a almost transparent shade of blue.
I lay there, watching the waves lap on the shore, a drink in hand, a tear rolling down my cheek.

Freestyle Writing Challenge #3

18 Jun 2015 33 Comments

by Ritu in Challenges Tags: Blog, Blog Post, Blogger, Blogging, Freestyle Writing Challenge

Oh Lordy, another challenge!
This time Karuna, from Simply Karuna
has challenged me to a Freestyle Writing Challenge.

1. Open a blank document.
2. Set a stop watch timer to 5 or 10 minutes, whichever length you prefer.
3. Your topic is at the foot of this post BUT DO NOT SCROLL DOWN TO SEE IT UNTIL YOU ARE READY WITH YOUR TIMER!!!
4. Once you start writing do not stop until the alarm sounds! Do not cheat by going back and correcting spelling and grammar using spell check (it is only meant for you to reflect on your own control of sensible thought flow and for you to reflect on your ability to write with correct spelling and grammar.)
5. You may or may not pay attention to punctuation or capitals
6. At the end of your post write down the number of words to give an idea of how much you can write within the time Frame.
7. Put the whole document onto your post and nominate 5 others and give them a new topic. Remember to copy paste the rules in!

Memories

Memories are great things. You always have them, tucked into the back of your minds, and whenever you want to look back on a great moment, you can open the vault in your brain and wallow in those delicious moments from days gone by when wonderful things happened.

There can also be those memories that you just don’t want to remember though, those thoughts that you wish you could erase. Unfortunately, we all have that black box lurking in the treasure troves of our lumbar regions. It’s just that some of us are better at locking away those thoughts, and throwing away the key. Some, though, find themselves revisiting memories like those on a regular basis, which is never a good thing.

But what would happen if one day you woke up, and all those memories were gone… Pffft! Disappeared? I don’t know what I would do. Those memories that I have, keep me going. I have reminiscences of people in my life, long gone, those I could never create new memories with. Family, friends, places I’ve visited, all those kinds of things.

It’s like photos. I love a proper photo that you can hold in your hand and look at. Maybe a phot could jog your memory, and allow you to relive those memories, long forgotten…But I dread the thought of something awful, like a fire, burning my photographic memories up. They could never be replaced. I have even gone down the road of starting to scan some, but there are just too many. I have loads on my digital camera and phone, but the same worry hits me… what if I haven’t backed them up, and they go…? I know I have the memory, but the physical evidence is so lovely to look back on too.

Memories, wonderful things, I just hope I always have mine….

Word Count: 309

Time: 10 minutes

My nominees

This time I chose five bloggers that I have developed a special relationship with, to do this challenge, they all write wonderfully, and I think they will do great in this one!

Erika Kind
Wafflemethis
Edwina’s Episodes
The V-Pub
Fourth GEneration Farm Girl

Scroll down to find out what you need to write about!