Back in the day, a long, long time ago… Mid 80’s, I started taking college classes at Anchorage Community College. I enrolled in a writing class and the teacher gave us an assignment –

Get a composition notebook and begin prolific writing – which basically means to write a lot.

Of course, once a week or so we had to turn our notebooks in to get graded. The teacher left a lot of comments in my notebook. She also didn’t like that I wrote my non-fiction paper on abortion. She made me start over by writing about Alzheimer’s. She thought I didn’t have enough experience to write about abortion – Even though I just found out I was pregnant. To this day, I wonder if at some point in her life she had had an abortion? (I digress)

Back on Topic

Prolific definition

1. Producing much fruit or foliage or many offspring. Producing many works. (The weeds are prolific in my yard).

2. Present in large numbers or quantities, plentiful.

I ended this notebook when I found out I was pregnant with Kimberly, my first born and my only daughter. Soon after, I had to drop out of school. Morning sickness got the better of me. My prolific writing came to an end – which is sad. I remember having a lot of fun with prolific writing. I never knew what I was going to write about – until I opened my notebook, picked up pen and began writing. Somedays, I wrote about general, everyday life happenings. Somedays, I would write a story or a poem. Somedays, I wrote from a prompt.

Nowadays, I think prolific writing could be likened to writing a blog. Instead of writing in a notebook one is typing their words into the virtual atmosphere of a server. The thing that matters, whether on paper or on a blog, writing is happening and people are reading the words. Comments are still being made on paper or on the site.

I have always preferred the old fashioned way of putting pen to paper. Alas, that is not how you gain readers for your blog. Maybe, if I do both – write the words on paper and then type them on the blog – it will help be more CONSISTENT (more on that word in a later writing/blogpost)

Silver – that was the teachers name. A long time ago – there was a teacher named Silver who taught me about prolific writing.

This next year – 2024 – I want to write more.

Thanks for reading

Positively, Debbie