I’ve noticed sometimes, not always, that writing engenders more writing. I woke up this morning when my CGM alerted me that my blood glucose level was a tad low. Breakfast and a cup of tea fixed that! I read for a bit. If you’ve followed me for a while, you know I am a Regency historical novel junkie. So, I escaped into the nineteenth century for a bit. Then I began writing. . . First, the Here: Five Things (December edition) list of “Truths I Want to Write Down,” followed by my morning pages.

I started listening to Beth Kempton’s podcast, “The Fearless Writer.” in her first episode, she gave listeners the prompt “Today” for a ten-minute writing period. I’ve been following that prompt for a week now. After rambling about my weekend, I used “Today” to finish my pages. Here is my list:

• Last night’s rain has moved out, and today is cold.
• I hear the traffic on the road as usual. Our road is busy all the time!
• The cinnamon in my tea (Harney and Sons’ Hot Cinnamon Spice black tea) burms my lips, but in a good way.
• I think I will plug in my bottle lights tonight for a bit of Christmas color.
• The sky is clear and blue. The air is still. It is the peace after the storm. Thankfully, the storms that swept through Tennessee and some states west of us missed us.
• Today, even though it’s December and “winter”, the world seems greener because of the rain.

I joined the South Carolina Writers’ Association last week. Their prompt for today in their Facebook group asks when I first thought of myself as a writer. That’s an interesting question. I was writing stories when I was in high school. One of my college professors called me a writer when she gave feedback on one of my papers for the literary criticism class I took with her. I think I have thought of myself as a writer, though not one “consumed” by the public. Royalty checks, payment–does that make one a writer? Or does that simply mean that others consider someone to be a writer? As I work on my own novels, I need to give that some thought. But that’s a post for another day, I think.