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Sunday, January 27, 2013

Today's Writing Prompt: Birth

Today write on the topic of birth: giving birth, noble birth, the birth of an idea, of being reborn.

6 comments:

Say Cheese said...

Let's see, I can't write about giving birth as I haven't given birth to anyone. I don't want to write about noble birth and I don't know if such a thing as rebirth exists so I'll write about birth of an idea. Ideas, what I feel, do not require any particular situation or state of mind to be born. They just do. Sometimes you won't have an idea take birth in your mind when you go searching for it, and sometimes you give birth to an idea without even knowing it. Oops, One minute is over, I must stop now.

Lynn said...

@Say Cheese: I liked yours. Nice thoughts.
Mine:
Birth - a new beginning. It is the start of something new and fresh and unknown before. It is a blank screen waiting to be written on. It is an empty plate waiting for the wedding cake to be placed there. It is the hole in the universe, waiting to be filled. It is the beginning. The start. The unknown becoming known. It is new opportunity.

Mindy said...

Giving Birth: Well, I've never given birth as I'm 22 years old. But I can mention that I was born 2 months early, stuck in an incubator for the next two months and naturally skinny my whole life while still maintaining the same weight (37kg). I hate it, but hey, that's just my life and genetics at play.

Noble birth: I think that no matter who you are, it doesn't matter whether you're of 'noble' birth or not. There's no 'special' cells or genes that make it 'noble'. We're all the same.

The Birth of an Idea: I daydream a LOT. As a writer, I have an extremely vivid imagination. The birth of my ideas comes from life experiences and dreams that dwell in my head and choices.

Of being Reborn: I do believe in Rebirth. I'm not religious in any way, but I do feel that I was murdered in my past life. I have a mysterious straight line down my stomach (as if it was a C-section scar) and for the last 15 years, I've had the same dream (in different settings) of being chased by someone who wants to kill me. Yeah, that's weird, I know. But I do believe in it.

Mindy
www.sksainitheauthor.blogspot.com

Annie said...

My first baby was birthed in 22 hours after a 10-month pregnancy filled with morning sickness, the flu, pre-eclampsia, and
kidney infections. Difficult to say the least.

My second baby was birthed in 6 hours after a 7-month pregnancy that I breezed through.

Birthing ideas is about the same - some take everything I've got and others just pop into my head.


Anonymous said...

Wow Mindy, anyone who can type 205 words in 60 seconds with almost no errors could probably be a millionare.

Mindy said...

Haha, I'm a pretty fast writer, Anonymous. VERY fast. Trust me, I use my laptop a lot. :)

Mindy
www.sksainitheauthor.blogspot.com