What Is It?
The WordPress.com Daily Writing Prompt for January 23, 2023:
Write about your first name: its meaning, significance, etymology, etc.
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Do You Want To Live Forever?
What Is It?
Today, I noticed something on my WordPress.com My Home page which I had not seen before, which was a Daily Prompt that you could click on; and it starts a post for you with the tag, dailyprompt, and here is that Daily Prompt:
Do you want to live forever?
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Near Miss
Matthew // Normal Happenings from Normal Happenings gave several other bloggers and I a blogging challenge called NEAR MISS | DAILY INKLING.
Here is the challenge:
Write a blog post inspired by today’s Daily Inkling:
“NEAR MISS”
Describe the closest you’ve ever come to getting into a deadly accident, but nothing bad ultimately ended up happening.
Here is my response:
One day years ago back when I was still in public school my dad and I went to visit one of his male coworkers or former coworkers who lived in the countryside of the city of D with his wife.
He had invited us to come shoot a small .25 ACP caliber pistol that we had bought for my mom for self-defense, I had never shot a real gun before and I was not expecting this small pistol to be loud at all, and so I thought that there would be nothing to it.
After talking with him and his wife for a while, my dad’s coworker or former coworker walked us to the forest behind his house to shoot the pistol at an old plastic 5 gallon paint bucket, and I went to shoot the pistol first.
When I fired the first shot it was so loud to my surprise and shock that I jumped and the pistol fell from my hands so I caught it, but when I caught it the pistol was pointing at and on my stomach and I almost pulled the trigger by accident when I tried to catch it in a panic; and so I almost shot myself in the stomach by accident.
After that scare I handed the pistol to my dad for him to shoot, then maybe my dad’s coworker or former coworker possibly shot the pistol, and then we walked back to the house because I was still shaken up and scared and embarrassed after almost shooting myself like that by accident and being shocked by how loud that small pistol was (how can something so small be so loud?).
It took me a while to shoot a gun again after this experience (I did again eventually), eventually we got rid of that gun, and I learned some important lessons that day.
The end,
-John Jr
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Egg
True George inspired me to consider creating this post, so thank you for the inspiration, True George. 👍
The Daily Post had a Daily Prompt called Egg, and this is what it said:
Egg
Write a new post in response to today’s one-word prompt.
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Neighbors
Today The Daily Post had a Daily Prompt called Neighbors, and this is what it said:
Neighbors
Write a new post in response to today’s one-word prompt.
Not sure how to participate?
And this is my response:
A few years ago I watched a movie called Attack The Block where a group / gang of young adults (who are also neighbors) in London try to defend their low-income apartment complex / neighborhood from an alien invasion; and it was a pretty good movie to my surprise:
The end,
-John Jr
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