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Meander- #JusJoJan2025 Day 3

03 Jan 2025 12 Comments

by Ritu in #jusjojan Tags: #jusjojan, Blog, Blog Post, Blogger, Blogging, inspiration, Linda G Hill, Poetry, Slingshot

Welcome back! I’m here with our third prompt for Just Jot it January 2025. Today, our prompt comes from the great mind of Kaye. Thank you, Kaye! Please be sure to visit Kaye’s blog to read her posts and say hello. And follow her while you’re there if you’re not already.

Your prompt for JusJoJan January 3rd, 2025 is “meander.” Use it any way you’d like. Have fun!

If you’d like to see what I have so far on your prompt list and what’s to come, you can find the list HERE.

Meander

Meandering mind
Time travelling - good old days
Missing those we lost

Meandering mind
Old places - good memories
Wishing for return

Meandering mind
Future - days we want to see
Dreaming of those smiles

Meandering mind
Grateful for the here and now
Perusing blessings

Ritu 2025

With A Little Help From My Friends – 7 Messages Of Inspiration for 2022 – Crone Confidence

29 Dec 2021 Comments Off on With A Little Help From My Friends – 7 Messages Of Inspiration for 2022 – Crone Confidence

by Ritu in Thoughts Opinions & Memories Tags: 2022, Blog, Blog Post, Blogger, Blogging, inspiration, New Year

I am honoured to be a part of this post filled with inspiration and positivity. Thanks, Diana!

Source: With A Little Help From My Friends – 7 Messages Of Inspiration for 2022 – Crone Confidence

Spidey’s Serene Sunday – Part 229

14 Jul 2019 38 Comments

by Ritu in Spidey's Serene Sundays Tags: Blog, blog posr, Blogger, Blogging, inspiration, Serene, Spiderman, Spidey, Spidey's Serene Sunday

“I will love the light for it shows me the way, yet I will endure the darkness because it shows me the stars.”
Og Mandino

Many thanks, Spidey, for that thought provoking quote.

It’s easy to chug along with your plans for life, especially when everything is going your way.

Not so simple when it feels like everything is going against your every wish.

The above quote really made me think.

Because recently, certain dreams of mine have been put on hold, in order to realise others.

I feel like I am living a life of light and darkness at the same time.

Light, with my professional life, finally knowing I have my own class, but also fretting as I have a lot to set up in my classroom, and I can’t wait for school to end so I can make my mark!

Dark with my writing, but I know it is not a good time to finish my editing. I can’t give it a half hearted effort, after all this time I’ve spent, coaxing it out into the world. The stars are there though, showing me the way. I know I will get there, but it’s just not knowing quite when…

So… tell me, do you have light and dark sections in your life?

Tuesday Poems For #Writers #Inspiration #WritingCommunity – Querying – A Scary Thing

30 Apr 2019 16 Comments

by Ritu in Poems Tags: Blog, Blog Post, Blogger, Blogging, inspiration, Poems for Writers, Querying

Another poem inspired by Lucy of Blonde Write More! Thinking about the choices we make regarding publishing!

Querying
A scary thing
Putting your words 
In front of them

The critical eyes
The knowing minds
The hope they like
What they read and find

The letter than
Just needs a hook
To get them excited
About your book

The endless wait
Will they even like?
Ignore you or say
Just take a hike?

Will you get the note
That says 'Sorry, no,
Not right for us
But mind how you go."

Or the one 
That encourages
But still says no
Gets you in a tizz

It could be one
That says "I'm in!
Send me your novel
Let the journey begin!"

Querying
A scary thing
Putting your words 
In front of them 

Ritu 2019

The Four Stages – #Poetry #Inspired

09 Apr 2019 44 Comments

by Ritu in Poems, Thoughts Opinions & Memories Tags: Blog, Blog Post, Blogger, Blogging, Etheree Quartet, inspiration, Poetry, reading, Writer, Writers Block

After a wonderful review of my poetry book, Poetic RITUals, Lucy Mitchell, of BlondeWriteMore blog fame (she is too funny, you must follow her!) she mentioned to me that she had been searching for inspiring pietry aimed at writers and creative types… words that may inspire and help nudge you through the tough writerly moments we go through…

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ISn’t that just wonderful? ❤

Now, I can’t magic up a whole book but it got me thinking, and I penned a little Etheree quartet, dedicated to my fave Blonde, Lucy, and all the writers out there!

The Four Stages

 Write
 Right now
 Momentum
 The need to type
 I feel them coming
 Ideas multiply
 Fingers fly across the keys
 Story seeds blossom into trees
 A book the world will all want to read
 Thousands of words reaching a crescendo
  
 Blank
 It’s gone
 I’ve lost it
 My story thread
 No ideas flow
 Inspiration has run dry
 All my dreams come crashing down
 I’ll never be a best seller
 Should I delete the whole sorry lot?
 No one will ever want to read this stuff
  
 Read
 Inspired
 Just maybe
 I can do this
 My book could happen
 Someone might just like it
 Plot twists thicken in my mind
 Endings start to come together
 Put the book down; get the keyboard out
 It’s time to make my book dream come to life
  
 Write
 Again
 Typing fast
 Renewed vigour
 Finish is in sight
 I almost can’t keep up
 Words tumble onto my screen
 Loose ends seem to come together
 Tying up the story completely
 Breathe… and finally type those words… ‘The End’ 
  
  Ritu 2019