For some reason, I woke up at 4:30 this morning. Of course I knew there would be no prompt yet, but as I combed the internet for distraction, tried in vain to write to my own topic, joined NaNoWriMo and tried without success to find a photo for a cover and gave up, (who picks a cover before they write the novel?), tried to find the real website for NaBloWriMo and gave up (only to see,eventally, that they posted it with the prompt this morning).
I finally was reminded of the days I’ve sat for hours waiting for the prompt or have received a timely one only to find the link doesn’t work. And so those other days of waiting are what inspired the seemingly unreasonable post below. (Who for God’s sake expects a prompt at 4:30 in the morning?) Daily Post, we do appreciate your efforts so hope you can have a sense of humor about our complaints. One thought, though. I just discovered the feature where you can set a post to automatically publish at a certain time in the future. Could you do this with the prompt so it would consistently be published at a certain time?
7:05, and still I wait.
Have you forgotten we have a date?
Without your promise, I might move on,
but in your game, I’m just a pawn.
You move me here and move me there.
You do not even seem to care
that I’m here online, held at the brink
as I wait for prompt or wait for link.
Daily Post, you’ve drawn us in,
addictive now as heroin.
We can’t get on with our day
until you tell us what to say!
Your hook and line is without bait,
yet still we let you seal our fate.
If you’d just post your topics sooner,
we wouldn’t have to pull a nooner!
Okay, fair is fair, so here is the real prompt for today and I promise to write about it as well:
The Prompt: The Spice of Success—if “failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor” (Truman Capote), how spicy do you like your success stories? (My answer to this is now posted in a different post.)
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So well said…. ! Waiting for your take on Spice! 🙂
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It’s there now, although I forgot to put a heading on the original post, so it doesn’t show in my second posting on The Daily Post site.
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For some of us it is a different issue all together. This post came out at 15:00 for me. Sitting here in South Africa, times are all messed up when taking part in the DailyPost prompt.
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Some people go back and find prompts they missed. I miss so few — and if I do, it isn’t an accident (usually) — I’m stuck writing promptless. Too early mornings are great for combing ones archives for reusable material. I’ve got 2800 already written posts, so I consider in my personal lode. It serves me well as I wait for the sun to rise 🙂
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Hi Marilyn. Thanks for commenting. You are right, of course, and I have actually started waiting to read the posts until evening and starting with the last ones posted, since many times those people have taken more time in composing their posts and I find them more complex and enjoyable than those posted within minutes of the announcement of the topic.
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