Hello Dear Readers! Time for The Trifecta 33-Word Writing Challenge in which we were prompted to write 33 words about why we write.
Why I Write
Oh there once was a woman of sixty
Neither born nor raised in Poughkeepsi
But she must write a book
Before death pulls its hook
Or at least before she breaks a hipsi
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Until next time . . . I love you
Linda Vernon Humor 
You do it every time!!! One more clever than the next. Write that book so I can read it!
Thank you Gina. I’ve decided to take take the plunge and participate in nanowrimo! How about you? 😀
Ah Gina! You kind comment propels me forward! 😀
Yes! Write that book. 🙂 You’ll make many people smile with your writing.
Thank you, Imelda, for your very kind words! It will be interesting to see what happens with National Novel Writing Month. Are you going to give it a go? I’ve decided to commit! 😀
I love this!
So glad you enjoyed it deanabo! 😀
I think you should write a book about your experience in the ballet, you’re pain and heartache after breaking your hip, and your triumphant return to the stage as Princess Leia in the Disney ballet adaptation of Star Wars.
Haha! Now that’s the kind of imagination that’s going to skyrocket me to success as the oldest and fattest prima ballerina to ever don double buns! 😀
Ooooh… that’s so clever… when is the book release?!
Ha Asifa! Uh . . . let’s see . . .how about 2013? 😀
LOL!!! The caption just killed me!
Thanks Lisa! Gosh I was sure lucky to find that picture! 😀
Right on! What a fun read!
I”m so glad you enjoyed it Lucy. 😀
ha ha! that was good!
Ah thanks Rashmenon! 😀
hahaha Wonderful! (:
Thanks Draug, so glad you enjoyed it! 😀
Love, love, love! Your humor is impeccable. Good luck on your NaNoWriMo!
Thank you so much for you good wishes Sandra! I’m so glad you liked the limerick! 😀
Hahaha! Thanks for the laugh 🙂 Good luck on NaNoWriMo!
Thank you so much Janna! And Congrats on placing in last weeks competition! YAY! 😀
One of my favorite parts of being a Trifecta editor is reading your work every week. I am super psyched that you are doing Nano and want to hear more about it. So I tagged you in the 10 Questions. And I am telling you now, I’m buying any book you’re selling.
The questions can be found here, if you want to share the answers.
http://www.lucidlotuslife.com/index.php/2012/11/04/top-ten-questions-about-books-im-not-writing/
OMG Lucid! Your comment has made my month!! I would be honored to answer the ten questions! Thank you! 😀 I don’t know much about my book as yet as I just started it but it’s about a character named Sarah Bubbles who popped up (so to speak) in one of the Trifecta challenges! Trifecta plays a huge role in my writing life, I gotta say! 😀
I love your creativity. How easily it flows and fits the prompts so well.
Oh thank you so much Ruby! 😀
Oh Linda, you’re such a bad-ass! I love it! 🙂
Haha! That’s my son-in-laws favorite expression. I can’t wait to tell him you think so! 😀
Hee hee hee! 🙂
Lovely, looney limerick. A small point, but you might get more writing done with a broken hip. I’m just saying…in my perverse way of thinking. I think I see a sly grin on the woman in silhouette!
Ahhahaha! Lumdog you have such a great way of always seeing the upside! 😀
Ha! I love the tongue-in-cheek-ness here, but also the honest sentiment: the drive and desire to write a book before kicking the bucket. That’s on my list, too. 🙂
One you hit sixty, it gets harder and harder to rationalize putting off your dreams! I’m glad you have it on your list too! 😀
Lol. Classic. I would’ve thought it’d be hard to rhyme with Poughkeepsi, but you sure pulled it off. Bravo. 🙂
Thanks Michael! Well they say nothing rhymes with orange, but really nothing rhymes with sixty either — at least Poughkeepsi was close! 😀
Haw! My hipsi’s OK, but my gutsi’s busti after laughin’ so hard. Somewhere there’s a Limerick Prize waiting to be picked up. Get yer coat, I’ll pay for the taxi… : )
No doubt in my mind you could write a novel, but why not collect a buncha yer posts and publish them? You’re a quick hitter and master of the short form, which is perfect for the modern truncated attention span!!
Well, well– just a thought… : )
Ha ha! Mark. So that’s why there’s been a Taxi outside my house all morning! 😀
I definitely like writing the shorter stuff better. So far my novel is just a series of 333 word stories that I’m trying to tie together with some sort of plot. HA!
I would really love to get a collection of short pieces from my blog and put them together somehow and send them out! I start to think how I might organize it and then I start to get confused . . . and that’s usually as far as I get, Mark! LOL!! Unfortunately I tend to be like the person who jumped on the horse and road off in every direction! I definitely have a “modern” attention span! LOL! 😀