See that word, in the picture's middle? I have it on display, just skinny wooden letters, in my living room.
FIVE
The reason is simple.
Those four letters stir thought and intention. They make me consider what I want to have accomplished in FIVE. In the next
FIVE MINUTES? To have read to my daughter(s), or cheered a friend, paid a bill, or nourished myself with a favorite snack. You get the idea.
FIVE MONTHS? I want to have grown in my writing, to be querying agents with one novel, writing on the next. No wasted time.
FIVE YEARS? Movement down the path of novel publication. I want to see it happening. No wasted time, no wasted effort, no wasted talent.
Tell me... If you sat in my brown wingback, saw that word, what would you think?
What are your FIVE?
Oooo, fun!
ReplyDelete5 min - Shower
5 months - finish editing my book and start the next
5 years - have at least 3 books under my belt and querying like a crazy woman...and get an agent!
5 min--cup of coffee
ReplyDelete5 months--five short story acceptances
5 years--book published
Whoa, big plate. Better have that coffee--five cups. : )
What a great idea!!!
ReplyDelete5 minutes - Read Heist Society before work
5 months - Have a good chunk of my novel written
5 years - Publication baby!
Super idea--can't have enough reminders.
ReplyDelete5: PhD
5: Start foundation
5: Run a marathon
5: Write my dad's story
5: Take my oldest son on 3 (he is 9) more guy's only trips
Five is the number of money, classically speaking. It's also the most popular number in organic nature, as far as I know, with all those pentagonal plant cells, honeycomb cells, etc. It is supposed to be my birth number, and it's the age I was when my avatar photo was taken.
ReplyDeleteI see it as a unit really.
I might think "take five". Or I might contemplate that five M&M's couldn't possibly hurt anyone. It might remind me of my five boys.
ReplyDeleteOr seriously, that in five months I hope to have agent representation and in five years I want to be working on my third or fourth book under contract. Great challenge!
5 minutes - read a poem
ReplyDelete5 months - have my poetry organized
5 years - enjoying how my creativity fuels my day, and supplements my income. That would be nice!
5 little speckled frogs sitting on a speckled log and according to my Mon. post I killed all their babies.
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It's Wednesday.
~ Wendy
Five minutes of hugging my hubby.
ReplyDeleteFive minutes of hugging my sons.
Five minutes of hugging my granddaughters.
Five minutes of giving thanks to the Lord for those five minutes!
Very cool post, Janna! And what a unique but very inspiring decoration to have in your house! I love it! And BTW, I love your new blog look!
ReplyDeleteI like this!
ReplyDelete5min- Another cup of coffee, and a test to hubby that I love him.
5mths- Editing my completed manuscript.
5yrs- Chatting with my dream Agent about my new publishing contract!
I would think you are completely cute and eccentric if I saw "FIVE" sitting there next to me. Great conversation starter too. :O)
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Education nearly done
ReplyDeletefuture within grasp
living where it doesn't rain all the time
traveling plans made
this season only a memory
Janna, you continually amaze me with on-the-spot posts.
ReplyDelete5 minutes--a chocolate snack
5 hours--time I try to spend daily (or more) with writing, research
5 years--be more godly, more loving, more like my Jesus!!!!
P.S. Can I borrow this????!!!!!
5 min - start homework
ReplyDelete5 months - take a trip back east
5 years - done with grad school, husband in med school, have a baby!!!
If I saw it I'd have no clue what it meant, but now that you explained it, what a great concept! I think my goals would be similar.
ReplyDeleteOh I love 5, it's the number of members in my family! And in 5 months all my children will be one year older and I might have some extra 5 minutes for my writing and then in 5 years all my kiddos will be able to entertain themselves for more than 5 minutes so I can write even more;)
ReplyDelete5- is my birth number
ReplyDelete5 minutes- to edit 2 pages
5 hours- the average writing session for me
5 is my favorite number!!! (Actually 8 is, and 5 is my ocd number...but that's a different discussion)
ReplyDelete5 min - get off work
5 mon - 2nd book querying and 3rd book started
5 yrs - agented and published and on the 5th book!
yep...sounds good.
Next five-feed the dog nosing my arm.
ReplyDelete5 months-have book ready for sending
5-years-published, and have more grandbabies. :)
I like that! Now I need to find a 5 to keep around and motivate me.
ReplyDeleteHow cool is that! LOVE THIS!
ReplyDeletefive min: go get some figs
five months: working on 3rd book
five year: working on eight book *laugh*
Ooooh Janna, I think that is brilliant. With my current sinus infection (thanks husband!), I can't even think 5 minutes ahead but I will try to do this when I'm well.
ReplyDeleteI like this a lot.
ReplyDelete5 hours - be typing away like mad on my current WIP
5 months - be pregnant and sign with agent on older novel
5 years - quit job, write full time
5 min. - write a blog comment
ReplyDelete5 months - finish my third manuscript
5 years - published!
Blessings,
Susan :)
Wicked question! I am thinking only about the first five - in five minutes I turn off my router and get back to my WIP!
ReplyDeleteBTW, Janna, there's a surprise for you on my blog today.
Right now? Lord, please help me make it through the next five minutes. And the five after that. Why? Because I'm getting a cold and have to stay at work when I really want to go home!
ReplyDeleteA man goes to a doctor for a check-up. After a week, the doctor calls him back, and says, "I'm afraid you have a terminal disease, and there's nothing I can do for you."
ReplyDeleteThe man says, "Oh my God - how long have I got?"
Doctor says, "Five".
Man says, "Five what?"
Doctor says, "Four..."
Um.
ReplyDeleteWell, I want to lose 5 more pounds.
I want my husband to give me 5 more kisses each day?
I want five more hours in each day.
I'd like to save 5 dollars each week.
5 minutes- nap?
ReplyDelete5 months- short story acceptance
5 years - a book deal and my own agent.
Ahh- let me bask.
You made your blob all purty-ful! Love it!
ReplyDelete5 min. shower
5 months no more WINTER!
5 years Retiring with Honey?
I love that type of constant reminder.
ReplyDeleteFive minutes -- fixed some dinner. Or at least decided what to eat (ooh, salad!).
Five months -- have a job and money in the bank.
Five years -- living with my honey and raising a family. And be working on my third of a three-book deal. Hey, a girl can dream.
OMG! lolol.
ReplyDeletePlease pretend this is Melanie. I don't have the energy to fix this.
*snort*
I'm sorry about that. Owen must have got on the computer while I was fixing dinner.
ReplyDeleteI like his answers though. Let'd go with that.
I love that picture, and what it's meant to inspire!
ReplyDelete5 min. - Watch the squirrels play in my yard.
5 months - Have the rewrite of my book done, and know for sure where to go with it.
5 years - teaching, publication, time to write and travel and have grand adventures.
What a fun post!
ReplyDeleteLet's see, here we go.
5 minutes - take the brownies out of the oven.
5 months - figured out what I am doing with writing, hopefully agented and hopefully earning a steady freelance income (yes, I love to fantasize)
5 years - Have published at least two books. :)
5 minutes - spinning in my swivel chair to overcome writer's block
ReplyDelete5 minutes - throwing up into the sink after that
5 - that's as far as I can count with my right hand. I think...