Writing Workshop #15 – Old Fashioned Attitudes and Inner Demons

Welcome to Monday’s Writing Workshop prompts! Before I share the prompts I just wanted to say a big thank you to all the people that contacted me this week. For some reason a whole heap of lovely people chose this week of all weeks, a week when I have been exhausted and full of doubt and battling with my normal ups and downs,  to email me with some wonderfully affirming words about the blog and the workshop and how much you are enjoying reading it and joining in.

So thank you, from the bottom of my heart, for all the people who took the time to email and leave me lovely comments. It really does mean the world to me.

AND… turns out that there are a few people who are still lurking on the sidelines trying to pluck up the courage to post something. If that’s you, then PLEASE don’t be nervous! We’re all in it together, all learning together, so please don’t worry about ‘not being good enough’ – just have a go.

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. Introduce to us all the different facets of yourself. How many different ‘you’s’ are there?
- Inspired by Kelly’s beautiful post ‘The separate people living under my skin’

2. What demon(s) are you battling with right now?
- Inspired by My Baby Adventure who is finding it hard to keep to her diet!

3. Tell me about a side to yourself that makes you feel a little old fashioned… what is it about modern day life that irks you?
- Inspired by Sandy at Baby Baby’s not-at-all-old-fashioned attitude towards modern manners

4. Recount a time when you erupted – when you just couldn’t keep it in any more!
- Inspired by Bare Naked Mummy who tackled some long standing issues - volcano stylee!

5. Introduce us to a book that changed your life.
- Inspired by ME! and my musings on Extroverts and Introverts after reading a challenging book this week.

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://www.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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