Writing Workshop #22 – Useless inventions and untrodden paths

Morning. Welcome to your weekly workshop prompts. Thank you to everyone who’s brilliant posts inspired prompts this week. If it wasn’t for all your wonderfully varied blog topics every week, I’d never be able to come up with these, so thank you.

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 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. What life path did you take a few steps down only to realise it wasn’t for you and come running back? Why did you decide not to continue?
- Inspired by Noble Savage who is at a cross-roads – “To infinity… and beyond!”

2. Tell me about a time when someone said something that made you feel good, that was just what you needed to hear.
- Inspired by the very foxy and lovely Chelle over at Chelle’s place

3. What gadget, object or invention do you find completely useless and impractical and think the world could do without.
- Inspired by Tiddlyompompom and her sample pot (and because her baby is SO nearly here – good luck!)

4. When did you say the wrong thing, and wish you could have eaten your words.
- Inspired by the Moiderer who wishes she had responded differently to her husband.

5. Pick an emotion that best represents your state of mind right now and write creatively on that theme.
- Inspired by my musings on blogging and emotional authenticity last 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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