Today is day two in the month long #Reverb10. Each day I will be either posting here, tweeting or adding to my lifecast. Some prompts will obviously be easier than others, but I’m looking for the challenge of writing (and publishing) every day! Reflect and manifest.

Today’s prompt for #reverb10 startled me.

“Writing. What do you do each say that doesn’t contribute to your writing — and can you eliminate it?”

I’ve known, since the fifth grade, that I wanted to be a writer. Every day since Mrs. McKenzie told me that whatever I did in life, I needed to write, I’ve set out to accomplish that goal. With each action, each class, each paper, each extracurricular activity, writing was always on my mind. Still is.

So, when I was asked today, “What do you do each day that doesn’t contribute to your writing,” my immediate response was, “Nothing.”

Because the truth is, there is absolutely nothing I do each day that doesn’t contribute to my writing. There is nothing I do each day that I don’t think about, think of how someone else could relate, how I could adequately articulate each experience.

Everything I do, I can write about.

Each experience, each date, each dinner with friends, each glass of wine, each conversation, adds another perspective to the story of my life. My blog (and my lifecast) are snippets into this story. I used to (and still sometimes do) joke about how I need to have everyone close to me sign a waiver simply stating that anything they say or do, and any experiences we may have together, are fair game for me to blog.

If I wasn’t out living, each and every day, I’d have nothing to write about.

And I’m not eliminating anything.