This is the tale of a Frustrated Blogger who turned to the Daily Post for writing prompts to jump start their blog. Frustrated Blogger was so eager to start blogging that the Frustrated Blogger didn’t read past the title of the writing prompt for further instructions. Below was Frustrated Blogger’s journey in blogging.

1) NOV. 8 Daily Prompt: Embrace the Ick

Blog Post:

Nov. 8 2012

I’m so exicted! This is my first blog post. I’m not quite sure what to blog about so I went to the Daily Post website for ideas on what to write.  Today’s writing prompt is called Embrace the Ick.  Which I guess means learning to love the word Ick. Okay, here goes.

Ick Ick Ick. Ick rhymes with flick. Talking about ick makes me sick.

Sidenote: This seems like a rather silly prompt. I’m not sure how I am supposed to grow as a blogger with such a simple prompt, but okay. Hope you liked it. 

2) NOV 9. Daily Prompt: Play Lexicographer

Blog post: 

Nov. 14, 2012

Hi there dear readers.  I’m a bit late writing the second post.  The “daily” writing prompt posted on Nov. 9 took quite a bit of effort to get through. In order to play the part of Lexicographer, I had to learn what a Lexicographer was. According to Merriam Webster, a Lexicographer is someone who writes, edits and compiles a dictionary.  I’m not really sure how I’m supposed to play the part of such a limited occupation.

I called the theater department of my local community college for help.  While they had no plans to develop a play centered around a Lexicographer, they did refer me to the campus Improv group, who upon reading the instructions for the Daily Post Daily Prompt, were VERY eager to help me out.  I was invited to participate in their Saturday workshop.  I must say, while the group was very welcoming at first, I got the feeling they were secretly harboring a grudge against a lexicographer because suddenly my predicament became the butt of all their improvised jokes.

I put up with as much silliness as I could with the group, from their first prompt whose premise was to make fun of a confused blogger who blogged about made up occupations to the word association exercise where in everyone insisted upon using the word “association” as much as possible. Although they kept stressing the first syllable of “association”, especially when it was my turn to blurt out a word.  The last straw came when we had to actually make up new words.  Can you imagine? Making up words?

The ringleader of the group Chazz, came up with a doozy: Confusedablogdelusionposerman. Get this, the definition was a confused person who joins a social media  site under the delusion that they understand social media.  Everyone thought it was such a hilarious word that they laughed and laughed for at least five minutes.  I couldn’t take it anymore. Clearly they weren’t taking my writing prompt seriously so I left.

I guess I should be grateful they did allow me to act out the part of a Lexicographer for at least a little bit so I could have enough material to write this post. Also, I have a few photos from the workshop to accompany this post.

Me. I forgot to mention that the Improv group did some research about Lexicographers and had me dress up in the Lexicographers official uniform. It sounded like a white collar job, so I thought Lexicographers would just dress up in office clothes, but these college kids insisted they had a uniform. 

This is Gina, a member of the improv group.  She kept taking pictures and texting throughout the whole workshop. I get the feeling she’s the slacker in the group since she was so attached to her phone.

This is Stephanie, George and Lisa, 3 professionals taking the improv workshop to sharpen their business skills.  When I asked if I could take a photo of them, they insisted on holding clocks over their faces because they are all sensitive to camera flashes.  The clock must have been ticklish because they would start to laugh hysterically every time they held the clocks over their faces.

Chazz and the rest of the group refused to the photographed.

Phew. Well, glad that’s over.  I can’t believe this took all week to write, once you factor in time for research and acting. I don’t know how other people had time to blog about this one. Seemed like a lot of work for a “daily” prompt.

3) NOV. 16 Daily Prompt: Three Letter Words

Blog post:

Nov. 16, 2012

Hi there readers!  Wow, I picked up 10 followers based on that last post. Woo hoo!  However, I was so exhausted from finishing up that Nov. 9 prompt on Wednesday that I needed a break. So I didn’t attempt the Nov. 15 prompt. Today’s prompt is 3 letter words.  As you’ll see below, I didn’t get very far in writing a post using only 3 letter words, but thought I’d at least post my attempt. Here goes:

And now you can say hey cat hey. Wit and fun are the all day pay day. Hey!

On a sidenote, while writing an entire (albeit short) blog post entirely made of 3 letters words, I don’t see how this helps me become a better blogger. You really can’t say much using only 3 letter words. Whose running the Daily Post these days?  I”m getting a little frustrated with these prompts!