Workshop #13 – A look in the mirror and one of ‘those’ days
Posted by Josie on Feb 15, 2010 in Writing, Writing Prompts | 5 comments
Welcome to Monday’s Writing Workshop prompts! Ooh it’s nice to be back. Glad I took a week off last week (much needed) but I don’t half miss reading all your posts! Hope that this week will be a good ‘un – I can’t wait to see what you all come up with!
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. Write an honest description of what you look like right now.
- Inspired by Nickie at Typecast whose post made me smile.
2. Give your curtains a twitch and dish the dirt on your neighbours. Any exciting stories? Or, if not, what do you imagine is going on behind those closed doors?
-Inspired by Kate at Two Men, A Cat and Me, who’s decided that life really isn’t that boring after all!
3. Write about ‘one of those days’. I’m sure you’ve had one lately…
- Inspired by poor Metropolitan Mum who certainly has!
4. What were you doing this time last year? If you had a blog back then maybe share a post from that time? What has changed? What have you acheieved? What are you still struggling with?
- Inspired by Maternal Tales who celebrated her 1 year Blogoversary this week – congratulations!
5. Tell me about the most romantic moment, or moments of your life so far.
- Inspired by soppy Sally at Who’s the Mummy who thinks that romance isn’t about places but about people.
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:
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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