Writing Workshop #16 – Under Pressure and Parallel Worlds

Welcome to Monday’s Writing Workshop prompts! Hope you’ve all had a good weekend.

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. Take the time to talk to an elderly relative or friend and share with us a story of theirs. Or perhaps tell us a favourite story you remember being told by/about someone you have lost.
- Inspired by New Day New Lesson’s beautiful and thought-provoking post reminding us to take the time to learn our heritage before it’s too late.

2. Tell me about a time you walked in another person’s shoes, and how it changed your perspective of them.
- Inspired by Kerry’s post from “And then all I thought about was you” about spending a day doing her dad’s job

3. What war is raging in your house? What are your family’s battles right now?
- Inspired by Vegemitevix’s PS3 house invasion!

4. Imagine there is another ‘you’, living in a parallel universe. As CJ so beautifully put it in her post “Putting aside your contentment in this life, imagining you could choose another…” what would you chose for your ‘other’ life?
- Inspired by the lovely Crystal Jigsaw’s musings on Parallel Worlds

5. What is making you feel under pressure right now?
- Inspired by me, and my endlessly self-imposed need to do better.

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!

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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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