Ah, fuggit.

Daily writing prompt

What principles define how you live?

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To perhaps compensate for my lack of short story – more daily prompts! OH GOD!

“What principles define how you live?”

You might have observed already that I do not live by many mantras or any particular faith: I regularly blaspheme and am inclined to be sceptical about auras or whatever the hell they call them. But still, I do live by some guidelines, not least in terms of writing style.

Go go list!

• Do not look at social media before working. Guess what happened today?
• Do some Yoga every night before you go to bed, because your posture is shocking. I’ve started doing this quite recently actually, not with any ulterior motive of achieving enlightenment or relaxing, but because my I can’t touch my goddamn toes. The indignity!
• Do not look at the weather forecast – people’ll inevitably tell you in the UK if something life threatening is on it’s way. If anything, it’s best to let weather surprise you rather than spending a long time dreading an impending heatwave and/or finding out it’s staying another week. Travel prepared for season incidents.
• Turn the pan down after you’ve got your first ingredient frying.
• Avoid being too political or personal on your blog. You’ve seen where that gets people.
• Wash your hands every thirty minutes when drawing traditional to prevent smudging pencil dust all over your lovely piece – I still need to enact this rule better.
• Don’t force yourself to do something you can’t. You might ease into it if you find the right pace, but you’ll never achieve that when you’re tired. Some procrastination is helpful, but don’t let it become addicting.
• Do not use deviantart to promote your art. It hasn’t been in a good state for over a decade. Also, stay clear of tiktok if you want to spare your already atrophied attention span.
• Chopping wood is more satisfying than browing over the same youtube videos again and again and again and again and
• Swill your mouth with mouthwash AFTER your brush your teeth to retain some form of dental protection. Water just washes away the microshields or whatever the hell the colgate add called them.

And so on, ad nauseam. You don’t deserve to hear any more – that would violate the geneva convention, I’m sure.

Have a good night!