8/29/2025.

I enjoyed the freedom from daily prompt writing and I do feel better. Finding balance is something I continually seek and it varies due to my life reality of the moment. I'd love to be able to capture that dynamic through written expression. Writing is so flat, compared to other arts, especially when basic journaling day to day life. Fiction writing....well, it's very easy to add in emotional dramatic statements and scenarios. My real life is unbelievable enough as it is - adding in fiction is unnecessary. But in my heart and during the day while in various work sessions, I'm jumping into that fictional zone. I feel incredibly lucky that I have a career where I get to enjoy this dynamic, because as a fiction writer? I truly enjoy fictional scenarios and impromptu creative effort. Bringing that into a therapy session, it's fun.

So I'm going to do another cluster of prompts. It's beautiful outside and my exercise routine (as well as other life tasks) I just don't have the time for daily check-in prompts. Although I do love the habit concept of daily writing goals.

Maybe another week? Idk - It's already getting late here for me. I have about 30 minutes I'm willing to dedicate to writing tonight. Not sure how many prompts I can complete in that time frame. And yeah, mentally I turned this into a game for myself.

Today was a long day at work but 3-day weekend! >>Another reason I want to keep it clustered. I have things I want to do this week. Maybe I'm explaining myself too much but in my experience, I don't think people explain their actions nearly enough and that leads to unnecessary confusion. When it comes to SM and writing as it intermixes with professional lives, it's something I consider often. Minimizing confusion and opportunities for misinterpretation is a priority in my daily life - it carries over to this project too.

I cannot remember a time when I did not have responsiblity upon me. And I only occasionally felt sad about that because I am a workaholic and I've been that way my entire life. So for this prompt, I think what happened - I was given a responsibility project as a child and I loved it so much, I continued to chase after that kind of existence. The earliest? It probably involved taking care of our chickens or rabbits but I have a lot of early memories of pet ducks.

Prayers.

Going to need some context here, I'm coming up blank. My co-conspirators do not want to be named. lol. *it's a work joke. They know what I'm talking about.

One chance event? My life could be summed up as being trapped in a Yahtzee dice bin.

Yahtzee Manifesto cards

^And I just went down a rabbit hole looking for a Yahtzee card example - only to learn way too much stuff that I didn't need to know. But fun though. There went 10 minutes of my life. There's now a high likelihood I will buy a Yahtzee game the next time I go to a store.

It wasn't big enough. It's where I learned how to cram stack as many bowls and spoons and plates as possible into an 18 inch square - of which I first removed a dish drying rack. Manufactured mobile homes don't have much counter space.

And there's a staleness. Which can be overpowered by sweetness. I made a lot of candy and cookies.

I really am starting to cringe every time a Top 10! prompt comes up. Initially, I thought I'd like them. Now it's like mind-freeze, deer in the headlights reflex. Idk, did I even have 10 objects? Of course I did but I'm sitting here, unable to even remember what that bedroom looked like. My life was unusual. I spent a lot of time anywhere but that room and even inside that room, I dove into a book and music.

Okay that's it for tonight. I went over the time limit - thanks Yahtzee. But now I'm kind of inspired to inclue that into an additional project I'm working on.