MAYbe May Day

Day 1 of The Month Long Challenge Begins!

Happy Beltane!

Today the two prompts I am working with are an otherworldly sound and a 5 sentence story structure.

I thought a lot about my 5 sentence story today. We went to breakfast this morning and I had two ideas on the drive there. I put them in my Keep app when we sat down at our regular table.

When we returned home, I did some reading which fleshed out one of the ideas a bit.

Then I went for a 10 mile walk in the sun.

When I was back home, showered and sat still, then I wrote my 5 sentences (while fighting the cat from wanting to sit on my notebook!)

I am obsessed with museums so an unusual one made it into my prose today. It fits into my DELIGHT theme for the 31 story challenge.

It is a full story, but one I can expand. It is living in my notebook at the moment. I haven’t decided whether to transcribe as I go along or not.

Did you write today?

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Before I quit traditional education, I had school traditions I kept up with year after year. One of those was on the first school day of May.

I invited students (And YOU today!) to finish the sentence stem:

One day MAYbe…

Grade level or age does not matter for this prompt. It is universal and always applies.

I saved a few student examples. I try to prompt them with a few ideas like somewhere they may want to travel or a career they would want as an adult.

One day MAYbe the weather will even out and it will actually look like spring.

One day MAYbe I will be a full time writer.

One day MAYbe I will be a princess.

One day MAYbe I’ll stand under blossoming cherry trees in Japan.

MAYbe one day I will finish my TBR pile.

One day MAYbe I will be able to eat pizza for every meal.

I am always looking for the magic. Some days it is easier to find it than others but it usually is in writing!

I invite you to finish the phrase –

ONE DAY MAYBE…

Where is your magic today?

#happywriting