Writing Workshop #19 – The Big Question and a Lost Hour

Welcome to Monday morning’s workshop prompts! Hope you find one that gets your creative cogs clunking…

For any newbies to our weekly workshop (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 enjoy writing your post.

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. We lost an hour over the weekend into the mysterious ether of the universe. Imagine you could get it back to use whenever you wanted. When would you ‘spend’ it and what would you do with it? Be imaginative!
-Inspired by the change to Daylight Savings Time this weekend.

2. What eagerly anticipated experience turned out to be a complete and utter let down?
- Inspired by Sandy at Baby Baby and her not-so-Ideal Home show!

3. What a story or a poem or something descriptive to try and share your view of what happens when we die. Perhaps you could write it as a way of explaining a hard concept to your children? Or just to express your own feeling about the Big Question.
- Inspired by Christine at Thinly Spread who has had to deal with the difficult question of ‘What Comes Next’ with her son his week.

4. Share a time when you felt a deep sense of rejection. How did you move past it?
- Inspired by Heather who has bravely been rising above the hurt of a professional knock-back.

5. When was the last time you really, really wanted something – to the point where it was all you could think about. Was it something material, a holiday or a new car perhaps, or something less tangible. Love? Success? Acceptance? Respect?
- Inspired by me and my familiar feeling of wanting 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:

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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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