Pick a Day to Be Aware Results
May 21st, 2012
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Author: Hi everyone! Last week I posted this post about picking a day to be aware . For me, I was doing fiction, but you could apply it to non fiction. In fact, when I did my challenge yesterdaay I forgot I was doing fiction and I started off with non fiction! LOL!
I had to throw that paper away and redo it with a fiction mindset.
I read newspapers and heard some news stories and also had discussions with various family members and got the following ideas for fiction slants (even if the idea wasn’t something I wanted to write – it could play a small role in the story). I am NOT using these – I’m keeping the ones I use to myself, but I wanted to share what I heard/read/saw:
- mental illness – person off meds
- animal hoarding (this sounds so far fetched but it’s in the news constantly)
- finding out you’re pregnant in not so great circumstances
- kidnapping during a custody dispute
- living as an autistic adult (we hear about kids all the time, but what happens later?)
- ivy league janitor graduates college
- person who works at a homeless shelter
- parents who give their kids access to excess (beer, etc)
- internship of southern teenaged adult (19) in NYC
- society woman hangs herself (Kennedy)
So these were all interesting ideas I discovered that day. But I found some other great ones I’ll be using for my fiction story, too! What did you find?
One of my favorite places to look for both fiction AND non fiction is Dear Abby in the newspaper. Take today for instance…
The first Dear Abby is about a soon-to-be-mom over-inviting people to a baby shower. This might spur me to create a “Baby Showers on a Budget” guide.
The second Dear Abby is about watching your mouth when you’re getting a divorce (making you look bitter) so I might create a guide about Amicable Divorces.
You can find the archives of Dear Abby here.
Why do I like it? Because it’s real people writing in for help – which means there are probably a lot more people with the same problem who aren’t writing in for help but just struggling to figure things out on their own.
Okay anyone want to share what they found?
Tiff 
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Hi Tiffany
I spent the week editing outsourced fiction that I was going to use for Kindle. It is funny because I never thought I could write fiction but the amount editing I had to do on work that I had paid for made me see that perhaps I can write fiction myself, I just need a starting point.
So as part of this challenge the ideas I had (that I am not using) are:
- young family boating tragedy – not wearing life jackets
- children having children
- older people with unique ways of making a living past retirement age
- UFO’s – what to do when one lands in your garden
- people who abuse their position of power. For example the police, your priest, coaches etc
- Moving past divorce – success is the best form of revenge
I was in the shower last night when my first ever paragraph for fiction landed in my head – I was in such a hurry to get dried and dressed so I could write it I almost forgot to wash the shampoo out of my hair
Lisa
LOVE it! Thanks for sharing Lisa
I can’t wait to start the writing process. Kinda frozen in fear here…
Nothing changed in this dusty old corner. Still getting a sour nose from editing my novel. Will it ever be done? Ack…
You can do it!
Keep working on it Agneta! Your time spent editing will be well worth it in the end!
I didn’t do this particular day to be aware but it is certainly a neat idea. I tend to think about this when random news topics or even products I see while shopping/etc spike an interest in making a blog/hubpage/lens…
Thanks Clefty!
I do hope you’re right. As it feels right now… oh well.
Well, spending the better part of each month in a kids cancer ward the scope is almost endless, and many people have suggested I should be writing about our journey, but to tell the truth, it’s all kind of exhausting. All that heartache.
But I’ve noticed the kids don’t seem to feel it. And maybe that’s where my story is. Or maybe it’s on the laughs all the mummies manage to have together in between the crummy bits, like:
- induction phase of treatment makes kids ravenously hungry. I watched a 4 year old girl devour TWO BBQ chickens in one afternoon
- my daughter eats nothing but baked beans. Yes. After 3 weeks eating nothing but baked beans you can imagine where that one is going…
- kids racing each other on tricycles down the hallways with their parents running after them with the drip-stands. A workout for everyone.
- putting lipgloss on then kissing the top of your daughters head only to end up with clumps of hair stuck to your lips like some crazy beard.
- the port installed under her skin is like a little button and kids like to name them. My child chose to call hers ‘her third booby’ (she’s 5 for heavens sake) and insists on telling Everyone so. Oh the embarrassment.
Are these things amusing to others? Or just us sad sacks?
is there a story here, or more of a ‘surviving childhood cancer with humour’ type manual?
Anyways
–jo
I think surviving it with humor or kids showing us that we’re living life at all times. I love kids. Their little hearts are so pure. Hang in there Jo! You have our prayers.
Jo, I think you could have a great story there. And maybe in the process it would assist people in realizing that when they see a terminally ill or severely sick child that they don’t have to ignore them or be uncomfortable….they can still just treat them like “normal” children!
I spent several days being aware of computer viruses and how to avoid getting them in the first place and how to get rid of them.
1. What is THE best way to keep viruses out?
2. What are the best virus programs?
3. How often should a virus scan be run?
4. ALWAYS turn off System Restore before running a virus scan. If you don’t, you’ll simply re-install the virus again.
That’s how I spent my week. Now on to other pursuits.
Good topic for many marketers who get plagued with them constantly.