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Wednesday
Jun012011

#Trust30 Challenge Day 2

The prompt for today’s #Trust30 Writing Challenge expects a short creative output. It was written by Liz Danzico:

“If ‘the voyage of the best ship is a zigzag line of a hundred tracks,’ then it is more genuine to be present today than to recount yesterdays. How would you describe today using only one sentence? Tell today’s sentence to one other person. Repeat each day.

Here’s my sentence:

“It’s raining today, but dammit, that sun is going to come out one of these days—right?”

The sentence is both literal and metaphorical. It not only speaks to the actual weather today and the promise of an 80° day in the forecast three days from now, but it also reflects a determinedly optimistic, but uncertain, attitude about the future.

I’m not sure I see a lot of value in this exercise, but it did make me think a little about my attitude. Maybe that was the point. Do you have any thoughts? Please share them (you can also share your sentence for today in the comments below).  

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Reader Comments (2)

It rained here yesterday and is raining today, but sometime between now and harvest (I'm beginning to wonder), we will be wishing for rain.


How's that? I am enjoying your "challenge", at least the first two days.

June 2, 2011 | Unregistered CommenterRAH

I like your sentence. I appreciate that someone else is as interested in the weather as I am.

Here's my sentence for today: "Resistance is pretty much destroying me today (along with this cold), so tonight will be a good opportunity to regroup."

June 2, 2011 | Registered CommenterWill Hutchens

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