Welcome to our final Five Minute Friday link-up of February 2024! The year is just moving right along, isn’t it?
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This week’s FMF writing prompt is: RESPITE
Setting a timer for five minutes, and . . . GO.Â
In my post last week, I wrote about how I was so looking forward to speaking at a Christian writers’ retreat this past weekend. It was such a delight! Everything I had hoped for and more.
And while I was extremely spoiled in that I got to meet and talk with some amazing women, eat delicious food three times a day that I didn’t have to cook myself, stay in a beautiful apartment all by myself . . . at the end of each day, I was also exhausted!
I had forgotten how much energy it takes to interact with others at a somewhat professional level for 12+ hours of the day, including three 45-minute speaking stints in two days.
I was *so* thankful for the opportunity and would absolutely do it again! But each day I woke up and thought to myself, “When I get back to this apartment tonight, I’m going to work on my own writing project.” . . . Ha! That was a delusional thought.
When I got back to my apartment each night, all I could do was collapse into bed — in a very satisfying, full manner, of course.
That’s why I’m equally grateful that my annual personal writing retreat happens to fall on this coming weekend! After a full (but tiring!) conference last weekend, I’m *so* looking forward to getting away once more with the sole purpose of working on my own writing projects. Three days of uninterrupted time.
Respite.
STOP.
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Also, don’t forget: Our next Writing Accountability Group starts in less than two weeks!
We’ll meet eight times on Zoom to write together in real time!
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Join this week’s FMF link-up with your own five-minute freewrite on the prompt, RESPITE, below, then visit your link-up neighbor to read their post and leave an encouraging comment:Â
I don’t know what respite means,
mainly ’cause I don’t get none
with all of cancer’s in-betweens,
but I still do have my fun
taking the piss out on my wife,
hum Elephant Walk as she goes by;
she’s been slender all her life,
but I really have to try
to get her goat most every day,
and it’s all a weirdy game,
because, at work, I have to say
that G.O.A.T.’s her nick name,
and so, now, aren’t you pleased to see
that you are not married to me?
Three minutes forty-five, and yes, they do call Barb the GOAT; it rolls off the tongue better than SME (pronounced ‘smee’); Subject Matter Expert.
Love and appreciation in its many forms.
So glad the conference was good. And now you can restore and refresh with a personal retreat.
Thanks for your honest blog inspired by this prompt! 🌟 I must say, I admire you for stepping out of your comfort zone like this. If it was me, I’d probably want to go home after just one day, no joke! 🙈