Writing Workshop #24 – Bullies, Common Sense, and Something Worth Waiting For

It’s Monday, so that means it’s time for your writing workshop prompts!

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. Tell us a tale of wanton destruction and chaos; share your stories of mess and mayhem.
- Inspired by lovely new blogger Nudie Princess and the sh*t her kid ruins…

2. Write about something that was worth waiting for – what was worth the patience and frustration?
-Inspired by new mummy’s Tiddlyompompom and And One more Means Five who both had gorgeous babies this last week. Congratulations!

3. “You just don’t get it!” – share a story about a time you felt that your other half, or somebody else, failed to understand something important about your life, your personality, or your needs.
- Inspired by Cafe Bebe who wrote about her worries about whether her hubby understands her blogging hobby and how to get the balance right.

4. Have you ever felt bullied? At school? At work? In your personal life? How did you deal with that? Tell us your story.
- Inspired by Mummy Tips and her post about feeling the affects of bullying this week.

5. Write about a time that common sense took a rain-check. Perhaps you were given a piece of ridiculous advice, or you lost your own sense of perspective for a while?
- Inspired by Muddling Along Mummy and her plea for the world to return to using its common sense.

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:

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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