Writing Workshop #9 – Missed moments & a lesson never learnt

Welcome to the first Writing Workshop of 2010!

I have a feeling that this year is going to see my Google Reader continue to bulge at the seams with some of the blogging world’s best and brightest. There is never any shortage of inspiration to draw on each week as I write my prompts, and that is thanks to all you lot who continue to move, entertain and surprise me through your words. I hope really hope to see this workshop grow over the next few months, and give us all a chance to show off our talents and discover new blogs and friends in the process.

So, without further ado, let’s get stuck back in…

For all your newbies (and it’s never to late to join in), here’s how it works… I’m going to give you 5 writing/blogging 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. The only rule is to have fun with it!

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. What do you seem unable to learn or remember, no matter how hard you try? Something about yourself? Something about the world? Or another person? Or a mistake you just find yourself making over and over again.
- Inspired by Heather’s rather, um, *delicious* mistake when braving the delicacies of Norway.

2. Tell me about something you miss – a sound, a taste, a touch… something sensual and that evokes powerful emotion.
- Inspired by Tara’s beautiful post in which she laments over time moving too fast: “The one where I learn to appreciate the little things”.

3. What steps have you taken this year so far to make a dream a reality? And if you haven’t yet? WHY NOT?! What’s stopping you?
- Inspired by Victoria at It’s a Small World After All, who is fearlessly making her family’s dreams of travelling round the world this year a reality.

4. Describe what’s out your window. Take a picture if you like (or draw one…) Tell me what about it inspires you, or depresses you, and how it makes you feel. What do you wish was there instead?
- Inspired by Amber from Strocel.com who’s been looking out her window.

5. Blog about your very own tiny acorn and the resulting mighty oak! Something that started out in your life as small and insignificant, but took on a life of its own and ended up as something exciting and spectacular.
-Inspired by ME! and my whirlwind week.

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:

<a href=”http://sleepisfortheweak.org.uk”><img src=”http://i270.photobucket.com/albums/jj90/flowerfairy82/WritingWorkshopBadge.jpg”></a>

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!

P.S. And if you fancy plugging this workshop on the social network of your choice? Then that would be fan-frigging-tastic.

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This Writing Workshop is brought to you in association with Mama Kat’s Losin’ It – who’s lovely author came up with the concept and runs her own workshop over in the U.S.

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