Last week we switched from health and wellness to seasonal interests. Today we are going to tackle one of the characteristics of summer. However, heat can have many more connotations that the weather.
The list of definitions of the word heat would reach to the end of this post without any quotes. Here’s a start
- warmth
- passion
- height of stress (battle)
- a game ( played in heats)
- pungency of flavor
- intense law-enforcement activity
- pressure, coercion
- abuse, criticism
Hunting Hot Stories
Remember you can write whatever temperature your audience can handle, but I’ll only post links to responses that are appropriate for a g-rated audience. See what you can do with heat and quotes.
Some Quotes to Get You Started
Guy Fieri might be able to prime your story pump with a pungent grilling recipe. Or just mention his name. I got 10,000 hits on Facebook when I merely mentioned his name describing our local Woodlake Drive In that has the best hamburgers in the world.
There are two different things: there’s grilling, and there’s barbecue. Grilling is when people say, ‘We’re going to turn up the heat, make it really hot and sear a steak, sear a burger, cook a chicken.’ Barbecue is going low and slow.
Guy Fieri
Maybe you want to talk about the process of writing or building something when you get a hot idea.
I’m like a crockpot on low heat. My mind constantly comes up with ideas, but I abandon a lot of them after a week or two. It’s the ones that keep coming to me, that keep picking up flavors, that haunt me, those are the ones that wind up getting written.
Laura Amy Schlitz
Maybe you have a hot adventure story tinged with a bit of humor to share!
You can’t have your kayak and heat it.
Denis Norden
Remember your worst vacation ever? This is the time to tell that story.
The crowd loves a record, and if they’re gonna be standing out there in crazy, blistering heat on the 4th of July, I mean, if they’re doing it, I may as well try and give them a record.
Joey Chestnut
Do you have some hot tips for us? Using at least one quote to get you started, here is your chance to blast us with a ton of tips.
Some people seem to think their oven self-cleans, but you need to clean it to stop things getting blocked up so you get a good rotation of air and heat inside. Get a probe to test the oven is reaching what it says it’s reaching to.
Paul Hollywood
Do you have a story from your childhood before there were air conditioners everywhere? What? You’ve never lived without air conditioners? Ever gotten into a hot car with leather seats? Ouch.
“It’s a sure sign of summer if the chair gets up when you do.”
Walter Winchell
Speaking of air conditioners I have the mother of all air conditioner stories.
“I’m in a relationship with my air conditioner.”
Unknown
Have you ever picked the wrong day to go on a hike in the mountains and gotten a little hot under the collar?
“I was used to heat but this place was so dry the trees were bribing the dogs.”
Irvine Welsh
The heat of passion can make you do many things. One of the more productive is finding your life’s work. The other, of course, is finding your life’s companion.
“You should enjoy your work, so pursue something you find interesting, and if you work hard at it, it will turn into a passion.”
Cary Bergeron
My Hot Story
COVID summer heat baking in summer fires AC broken down hundred ten outside breathing flakes - orange-brown ash frantic for cool air cats sprawled by air vents clogged, cooling breezes lockdown - go inside closed windows and doors stifled movements - lie around drinking cold fluids survived burning days alive
#WQWWC Community Contributions
Thank you to each of you for your amazing stories, thoughts, poems and, of course, quotes. Have a wonderful week
Upcoming
Cee Neuner and I want to announce a new photo challenge we will co-host starting this Friday. More details tomorrow!
Marsha Ingrao - Always Write 
51 responses to “#WQWWC #29: Heat”
[…] what looked like a loving foster home upstairs, there was no heat in the damp basement. Now, Celeste did have to admit it never got hot or cold down there. […]
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great take on heat and hope everyone with the high weather heat does okay this coming week
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I’m glad we are not worrying about our garden in CA. I loved it so much, but it took a lot of water and even then things died in the heat. 🙂
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[…] that comes with enjoying what summer brings. Marsha at Always Write challenges us this week with “heat” for her Writers Quotes Wednesday Writers Challenge. Marsha has a series of hilarious quotes you don’t want to miss. I found a few of my own to […]
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[…] WQWWC on Wednesdays a few more days to share the “Heat!“ […]
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Hi Marsha, here’s my post;
Thanks
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Hi Marsha, What a great idea for a theme this week.
Here is my entry. I hope you enjoy it.
https://ceenphotography.com/2021/06/18/wqwwc-29-heat/
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Awesome – with everything else – you did it! 🙂
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[…] Here is my entry for Marsha’s WQWWC (Writer’s Quotes Wednesday) #29. […]
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Hi Marsha, thanks for linking! I like the theme for this week, I have some idea of what I’ll write about! A new challenge! Can’t wait to see what is it about! Have a great day!
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I’m not turning up the heat on you, Elizabeth, but I can’t wait to see what you come up with! 🙂
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Here is the link, hope you like it! 🙂
https://teandpaper.ca/2021/06/18/wqwwc-heat/
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This is a lovely post, Elizabeth. It’s gorgeous.
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Glad you liked it!
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Looking forward to checking out the new photo challenge!!
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Yay, PhotobyJohn. I already know you have some photos that will fit! 🙂 Have a great day, John. 🙂
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These were so great Marsha!!! A few of them I had found too and thought of using. I laughed at the AC one. I loved your take on them….I LOVE watching Guy Fieri…all his shows are awesome. How fun to have a burger place that he visited.
When we lived in our first home we didn’t have AC…we were there for quite a few years and then moved in with an older gal while we worked on building our house. It turned out to be one of the hottest summers. Some friends posted on FB asking what everyone was doing to beat the heat and I said “moved in with someone who has AC”. We had fans in our other house and at times would even get a cooler with blocks of ice to put in front of the fans. lol.
https://troyerslovinglife.blogspot.com/2021/06/wqwwcjune-16th-theme-heat.html
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Wow, Kirstin. Our first house in CA did NOT have air conditioning. It had a ceiling water cooler that blasted out humid air just as you came out of the bathroom or bedroom into the hall. So forget neat-looking hair. On top of that, my car did not have air conditioning either. I usually arrived at work in the summer, looking used, spent, washed up on the beach. It was not a pretty look, but somehow we survived that first and second year in the heart of the heat of California. Now, I’m off to read your post. 🙂
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Love this, Marsha, and the humorous quotes! Those are quite the find! My two favorites were the one when the chair gets up when you do (been there done that, LOL) and the trees bribing the dogs–hilarious!!! Those kitties are adorable. Oh, the heat–have you seen the temps in central California this week? 111 in Sacramento. I don’t miss it and Hans used to work in that stuff! Monday night we had thunderstorms complete with lightning and thunder–nature put on a show then rained for hours–hooray!! Perfect timing for the prompt and I’m getting ready with mine as it works perfectly with SS theme sunrise/sunset in time for the solstice!
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Oh that’s awesome. I just took some pretty nice pictures of sunsets that I squared for the next round of Squares. I’ll post the originals in your SS. Can’t wait! Missed you this week. We all were busy. I’m talking to Cee soon about our first ever Photo Challenge PPAC (Photographing Public Art Challenge.) You’ll have tons of good pictures for that one! 🙂
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Oh, sounds good, Marsha! I’m looking forward to seeing that new challenge!
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Tomorrow morning at 9:00 am Pacific Time. We had a long chat today, and I finished my page, and she’s posted hers. Cee designed the cute logo. This ought to be really fun.
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Loved the quotes and the ideas, Marsha. Summer has turned up the heat and now this challenge. The picture of the kittens was my favourite, it speaks louder than all the words put together and the cute factor is unmissable.
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Thanks so much Sheetal. Nutters hasn’t changed a bit in three years, only he’s asleep on the bed in an air conditioned house and not on a cooling pad. 🙂
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Thank you for the mention. I love your entry. This is my favourite of all the quotes –
I’m like a crockpot on low heat. My mind constantly comes up with ideas, but I abandon a lot of them after a week or two. It’s the ones that keep coming to me, that keep picking up flavors, that haunt me, those are the ones that wind up getting written.
Laura Amy Schlitz
I relate to this, I often have several ideas simmering away. KL ❤
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I like that one, too. My family used to say I had too many options going all the time.
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https://wp.me/p1mNOd-1xS
My entry for this week, Marsha.
KL ❤️
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Oh my gosh, KL, you are so creative. I’m post a link on my page, and I’d love to include the poem as well, if you’re interested. 🙂
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That would be such an honour, Marsha. KL ❤️
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Awesome!
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Thanks for the mention!
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You’re the best, Sadje. 🙂
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Many thanks for these kind words
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You and the others who have joined the community keep me excited about this challenge.
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It’s a pleasure Marsha 😄
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hot reminds me of summer, my favorite time of the year. I like the hot pink interior of that car and the wonderful imagery in your poem. 10,000 hits? that is quite impressive!
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It impressed the owner of the Drive-In. He often gave me free meals or wrote off my entire ticket. Most looked at post ever! 🙂
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might as well take advantage of a car that catches attention 🙂
that number of views could be tough to beat, at least it would be for me…
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It was for me, too. Then and now. I mean 2-4 view normal! LOL
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but I am sure it was exciting when it happened!
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Very! 🙂 It was nice to bring a lot of attention to Ali’s business. He is one of the nicest people I know. He is so generous with Kiwanis. Many times he donates 15% of his day’s business to one project or another.
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that is nice when you can help someone who is so deserving…
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Exactly. 🙂
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👍
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