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by Josie
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Writing Prompts #1 – Secret Rooms & Conspiracy Theories
Hellooo!! It’s Monday morning, which means it’s time for Sleep is for the Weak’s very first weekly Writing Workshop!
So here’s how it works… I’m going to give you 5 writing prompts. Pick one, pick two, or do them all if you’re really keen – it’s up to you. How you respond is your choice. You could share a real-life story, or make one up. You could write a poem or just free write without thinking too hard and see what happens. It can be funny; it can be serious; it can be emotional. It can be whatever you want it to be. There are no rules (apart from you must not talk about Writing Workshop, or actually, you MUST talk about Writing Workshop. AT ALL TIMES. To EVERYONE… because it rocks).
Prompts each week will take their inspiration from blogs, current affairs, daily life, or just whatever everyone happened to be talking about that week. If you’d like to suggest a prompt then send me an email or catch me on Twitter – I would love to hear your ideas.
So here they are:
1. Come up with a brand new conspiracy theory
- Inspired by all the nut jobs speculating about the REAL story behind NASA’s Moon Crash (hell, do that one if you want!)
2. Share a perfect moment
- Inspired by Capital Mom’s beautiful “Moments like this”
3. Imagine an extra room in your house just for you. Time would freeze as you stepped through the door, leaving your life frozen behind you and giving you unlimited guilt-free time to spend there. What would you fill it with? What views would it have out the window?
- Inspired by Slugs on the Refrigerator’s “A room of our own”
4. Write a story (real or imagined) using the title, “There’s something funny in the toilet mummy”.
- Inspired by A Modern Mother’s post of the same name!
Or if you haven’t got much free time how about this quickie prompt…
5. Write a Housework Haiku, like this one!
Dust disturbed from rest,
Finds new residence elsewhere.
Bane of housewives all.
Inspired by… me. Who got bored while cleaning yesterday. Would be a good one for non-blogging folk to add to the comments! (Haiku’s are short poems consisting of three lines of 5-7-5 syllables, just in case you didn’t know).
Now here’s what you have to do. Write your post and publish it on your blog between now and Wednesday. On Wednesday come back and use the widget that will be up to paste in the URL of your post to share. Then take some time to read some of the other entries and leave some comment love! We’re not here to critique – just to have fun and support each other in our writing experiments. So be kind please.
Anyone who would like to submit something via email, or even anonymously will be more than welcome to do so. I’ll post them on the site here and include the link in Wednesday’s round-up.
Feel free to use the Workshop badge on your blog or as part of your post if you like. Code is here:
Note: I’m told Blogger does something a bit funny with the code so you’ll need to copy and paste it and then retype the quotation marks (“) as Blogger changes them for some reason.
See you Wednesday then! And have fun!
P.S. And if you fancy plugging this workshop on the social network of your choice? Then that would be fan-frickin-tastic.
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Just what I need to get over writers blog, count me in.
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Ok, I’m going to give it a go. Wish me luck!
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[...] professional work is so tempting. Josie, at Sleep is for the Weak gave this as an option for her writing workshop (and she had been inspired by Slugs on the Refrigerator) and I (poor harassed mummy that I am) fell [...]
This is awesome! Thanks so much for linking to me! I will try to give it a go but I am beat from Thanksgiving so I may need to recover instead of blogging. But, there is always next week!
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oooh I’m going to give it a try- I’m crap at participating in things like this (lazyititus) but it does look like fun.
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This is excellent fun … time is very tight today but if I can’t make it this week, will definitely do it next week!!! *yipppeeee*
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[...] a Comment Although I do enjoy writing, I’m not particularly good at it. By joining the Writing Workshop I’m hoping to improve. I won’t be improving this week though. I’ve got 2 essays [...]
Really looking forward to reading all of your posts!! Don’t forget to come back and link up tomorrow – and thanks so much for all the positive feedback 
x
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Why did Tigger have his head down the toilet?
Cos he was looking for Pooh.
That’s my entry, by the way.
Good Evening.
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http://wp.me/pF4hl-u
Handing in submission In probably the wrong place..but hey
april´s last blog ..Writing Exercise for Sleep is for the Weak 
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[...] This post is part of the Sleep is for the Weak Writing Workshop. [...]
[...] Published October 14, 2009 wednesday workshop 4 Comments The very lovely Josie over at Sleep is for the Weak, has kindly set us all some blogging homework, in the form of some very fun writing prompts, head [...]
I’ve got writer’s block. Can I simply post of picture of my shirt stuffed down the toilet? (Charlie did it!)
Tim´s last blog ..Hot or Dot?
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