Did you notice, of course you did. Most of us have. First of all I thought it was a solidarity sign because they disappeared after Paris was attacked by terrorists, but no such thing.

And so since last Saturday, three days, I/we are promptness. How can we survive, how can we continue, something is missing in our blog existence. I must admit my first reaction was the prompt generator. I had been there a few times in the past, and found that a two word prompt where you do not know what you are getting until it arrives, is not a bad thing, a real Forest Gump lookalike in the box of chocolates where you never know what you get etc. etc. On the other hand, I had withdrawal symptoms from my daily prompt. I was frustrated, life had no longer a purpose, I was desperate, biting my nails and shaking tigers on the keyboard. My chocolate consumption was increasing, I was missing my fellow prompters.

Should I write a letter to the Daily Prompt people, telling them of my slowly crumbling trust in the world of prompt? I was lost, wandering in a vacated grid world. On the other hand I decided not to submit to the psychological warfare being applied by the grid creators-

My advice, if you want to write is just write. Some of us are constructing something new. There is only the Reader left and I hate the reader. If you write something and you want it read I have a little piece of advice. When you write there is a little box on the left that says “Tags”. If you tag it with daily prompt, I can find it easier in the Reader. The Reader shows it all, but is divided into categories on the lefthand side, one of which is daily prompt. If you tag you entries with “daily prompt” it will appear. It will be the CPR of our daily prompt system. We will survive despite the assassination attempts performed on our daily prompt lives.

Don’t let them win, beat you down, push you into the pitfalls of darkness, succumb to the word vampires of the grid. Let us become the phoenix and rise from the ashes of our needs to prompt daily. The end is nigh for a daily prompt perhaps, but a word of advice which I actually stole from someone else and I think it is a good idea. Anything you write that you want to be seen, post it on the last tile of the grid “RSVP” after all it says “repondez s’il vous plaît” meaning “Please Answer” so we will answer.

I rest my case with our two possibilities of a tag “daily prompt” or an entry on the wall of prompt. Don’t let them win, after all

We are the champions, my friends,
And we’ll keep on fighting ’til the end.
We are the champions.
We are the champions.
No time for losers
‘Cause we are the champions of the wordpress.