I’m giving Five Minute Friday a chance for the first time in… many many years. My writing has been sparse and rusty lately. I’m hoping this weekly habit will help clear some cobwebs and restore my craft.
See what I did there? I promise I didn’t plan it that way. Today’s prompt is the word RESTORE.
Restore means to bring back into existence… to start again. To reestablish.
In my recent writing and personal growth journey of the past year, I’ve looked back at things like what I wanted to be when I grew up. What I was passionate about as a child. And I’d forgotten how when I was about 5-6 years old I wanted to be an author and illustrator. When I was in late elementary school I wanted to be a journalist. When I was in high school I took composition classes instead of literature (so funny to me now since I am SUCH a bookworm). I aced almost all of my papers and writing projects in college.
But then after college I didn’t really have any opportunities to write. I definitely didn’t have required writing to do anymore. A few years post-college I did start a blog (that’s what all the cool kids were doing), though I didn’t write consistently or with purpose like I used to with school projects. I think I’ve had 4 different blogs over the last 15 years.
RESTORE. I want to restore my passion for writing. Not for simply recording the activities of my day, like my previous blogs have been. I want to go back farther. I see my own 8-year-old writing little books every day, and I see myself in her.
A HUGE thank-you to hope*writers, who are helping me restore this love.
Five Minute Friday is a weekly opportunity to simply write about one word for five minutes flat, and link-up what you’ve written, to connect with other writers.
Welcome back to exactly where you belong. I follow a podcast about finding more joy and happiness in your life and their number one suggestion is going back to the things you loved when you were a kid because that is when joy was so easy and figure out what made your heart full and start doing that again! You belong in a world of writing, so welcome back!
Thanks for the encouragement! What podcast is that?
Welcome (back) to the FMF community! I’m a fairly recent participant, and have so enjoyed getting to know new people and to have the discipline of the prompt.
Here’s to restoration!
What a wonderful word for you to restart your journey as a writer. Congratulations! It’s worth of celebrating. Blessings to you!
I resonate with your story of being restored to the gift of being able to write. It was lost for me for some years as well. Welcome back to FMF! FMF11
Welcome back! May you find the words and creativity restored to you as you begin to write again!
I am a H*W too! Would love to connect!
Also, I added your blog to my reader. There was so much in what you wrote about the journey, and braving writing- again- that I so identify with! I am excited to be here as you adventure through this!
Do you have an email list, and I just missed it?
Yay for hope*writers! I recognize you and follow you in Instagram. 🙂 I’m hoping to start an email list, sending out a monthly-ish newsletter. I only just got things set up in MailChimp this week, so you could be my guinea pig and try signing up here: http://eepurl.com/dv9BtX (the link is also in my sidebar, but I’ll work on making it more obvious!)
Welcome back!
I can really identify…when I was younger I wanted to be a writer, but got kind of sidetracked…and when writing called me back in I got segued into what I’m doing now.
Blogging about my own incipient death is not exactly what I would have chosen, but it does seem to reach a need, for folks to know that cancer’s just a part of life, and that joy is a choice. If that’s my writing legacy, I’m OK with it.
#1 at FMF this week.
https://blessed-are-the-pure-of-heart.blogspot.com/2018/06/your-dying-spouse-485-healed-heart-fmf.html