B is for Beginning: A to Z Blogging Challenge 2018

"B" is for beginning, or,  in my case, "B" is for  boo-boo.

Shocking as it may seem I am fallible:  In my haste to register for the A to Z Blogging Challenge 2018, I made a mistake. A boo-boo.

I'll tell you I didn't read the instructions because I was trying to register before the A2Z registration link expired.  My registration rank of #696 out of 697 registrants would bear that statement out.

However, truth be known, I rarely read tech instructions--even when I have the time. They frustrate me. They give me a headache.  They use words and terms that mean nothing to me.  In Nursing Diagnosis, I have a Knowledge Deficit related to Technology. And, although it's part of my job as an RN  I don't care to develop a care plan to address it.

In my rush to register I mistakenly thought the initial post prompt was:  A for Awesome.
Desiring  to get ahead of the upcoming Monday post, I spent the better part of Sunday afternoon looking for the prompt list for the remaining days of this month-long challenge.

There isn't one. 

There is a calendar with the daily post links. But neither the calendar nor the daily links say what the prompt is for the letter each day.  When I finally broke down and read the directions, I learned  there are no prompts supplied other than the letter of the day. 

I may choose my own theme for the challenge, and my theme plus the letter of the day, is my prompt. Or, I may  chose no theme at all, and that case, the letter of the day alone is my prompt.

What I mistook for the prompt of the day, was actually part of the title for the A2Z Team post.

Since I've begun the challenge without choosing a theme, and I have too many interests that I could choose from as my theme, I'm choosing to not choose my own theme at all.  

Instead, I'm makeing up my own rules. I plan on continuing to use the daily prompt word or phrase of the A2Z Team as my daily writing inspiration--at least as long as their prompts work for me.

At this point, I feel I must provide a disclaimer:

I am in no way part of the A2Z Challenge
Team. Please do not judge them by my posts.

Getting back to their "B" prompt of Beginnings, I have crafted  a haiku about beginnings. I realize haiku starts with the letter "H" but when you read my haiku on beginnings, you'll notice it's a bad-haiku. Bad-haiku is my specialty.  So haiku  really starts with a "B"--at least in my world.

Besides the letter "B" what do beginnings, boo-boos, and bad-haiku all have in common?

Me.

I say that in jest. But it's also true--and I'm okay with it.  When it comes to tech-stuff I'm a boo-boo rich environment. But it doesn't stop me from blogging. 

And when it comes to haiku, I love the 5-7-5 form, but I don't understand the seasonal reference rule.  But that doesn't stop me from writing bad-haiku. 

In fact, bad-haiku is my crack. I'm a bad-haiku addict. When I read or hear a 5-7-5 rhythm, I start counting syllables--and I count them for days. Subconsciously I craft responses in 5-7-5.

the rhythym got me
haiku  replies in my head
i cant make them stop


(That wasn't it--it was just a 5-7-5.)

Here it is...

thirty days to post
bloggers baring heart and soul
blooming in their craft

And because I'm me, here's another...

a to z  challenge
writers blogging every day
giving life to words

(I warned you, once I start I have a hard time stopping.)