Workshop #12 – Feeling the fear… and your age!

Welcome to Monday’s Writing Workshop prompts! Don’t forget you’ve got an extra day this week with our workshop now being held on a Thursday. Funnily enough though, even with the extra day, I still left it till the last minute. Hmm… how about you?

For any  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’s made you feel a little old lately?
- Inspired byVery Bored in Catalunya’s post ‘The passing hands of time…’

2. Tell me about a time you contracted a bad case of foot IN mouth syndrome and committed an embarrassing faux pas.
- Inspired by Gappy’s ‘The Art of Putting Ones Foot in Ones Mouth. By Me.’

3. Write a post on the theme of ‘soul mates’. Do you believe in them? Have you found or lost yours? Or are you still looking?
- Inspired by Crystal Jigsaw’s beautiful and touching post about her husband.

4. Which public figure or famous person inspires you and why?
- Inspired by Raising My Boy Chick’s impending announcement of the Lesbian/Bisexual Woman of the Decade

5. Tell me about a time when you ‘felt the fear and did it anyway’ – when you overcame a fear to make an important change.
- Inspired by ME! and my impending scary re-location

Now here’s what you have to do. Write your post and publish it on your blog between now and THURSDAY. On Thursday 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 Thursday’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 Thursday 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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