Familidays

                                    

Familidays is the time families and friends come-together for an activity or function. It may be a graduation, movie day or just because one's choice day. The time spent will roll-out funny, interesting and, often, shocking behaviors.

• These moments expose possible writing ideas.
• Research a specific behavior is an option.
• The historical beginning of a holiday could hold promise.

A news article grabs attention when it details what happened at pool-side, during a dinner or after the party. The circumstances of your last dinner or after "it" happened. The circumstances of a certain incident rose to mind? This is the moment to write an article. Why?

• It's therapeutic.
• The article has an ability to help someone.
• At the least, learn from it. 

I remember, for example, a person who kept her lips moist by spreading petroleum jelly on them. She applied it like lipstick. Dinner was over, and she applied it. Some time passed. Again, the jelly was plopped on her lips. Without warning, she'd plop a kiss on your cheek. You never knew when the kiss would come. How can one action become a writing idea?

• She inspired the poem, "The Plopper."
• "Familidays," the blog post taps into it.
• A character in my novel may have a similar habit.

The idea is to set creativity on fire, or keep churning out writing projects. Perhaps, the term familidays fails to excite your creative flow. Shuffle the word around to dance with your creativity. How? Think of your most frequently used words.

• What word is comfortable with you, your creativity?
• Select the line, word, that inspires you.
• Take some time to think about it.

Put two words together. Experiment. Relax. You may become tired. Stop. Come-back tomorrow. I'm going to drop some words off the top of my head. It can be fun. Let me know what you came up with. Any word or every word can take part.

• Turkelicious.
• Ween-madness.
• Troleum-plopper.