Writing Workshop #20 – A cure for procrastination

Morning!

Welcome back to your Writing Workshop prompts for the week. Have you missed it? Thanks for the week off last week – did me the world of good.

Unfortunately, as those that read my last post will know, all that time off to frolic and relax meant I let some responsibilities slide and I’m now looking down the barrel of a long week of frantic study as I try to get an assignment in. AND I seem to be struggling with a powerful dose of paralysing procrastination and general confidence deficit when it comes to said assignment

BUT!

I have a plan.

We’re going to do the workshop slightly differently this week. The prompts aren’t going to come from you blog posts as normal, they’re going to be inspired by what I’m working on this week. A few people suggested this as something to try. Maybe if I think of what I need to do as a workshop post, rather than a big, horrible, asteroid sized assignment I’ll be more likely to do it. And, you know, misery loves company and all that. If I have to do the bloody thing, so do you. Ha!

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 and get something out of the process.

Prompts each week (usually!) 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 for a future workshop then send me an email or catch me on Twitter – I would love to hear your ideas.

So here they are:

1. Tell me about a time you decided to move house. What prompted it? Did you want to move? What did you leave behind, and what did you find when you got there?

2. Write about a time when you felt, or you felt someone you loved, was in real danger.

3. What new skill would you love to learn, or have you learnt something new recently that you can share with us?

4. Clear out a cupboard you’ve not visited in years. This could be a metaphorical cupboard, perhaps memories or issues you’ve not thought about for a while, or a real-life one. What skeletons are lurking there? What memories and memorabilia of you life need dusting off and looking at again?

5. Recount the story of a meeting or a parting, a saying hello for the first time, or a saying good bye.

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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