Writing Workshop: Write your Own Workshop (with prizes!)

Hello. Bit late with this to day, I’ve been out enjoying the lovely sun and blinding pedestrians with my white legs.

We’re going to do something a bit different this week.

This week YOU are going to come up with a prompt. I’m going to give you five words or phrases to help you get started. Think of a prompt based around that word or phrase, write a post based on your prompt, then link it up on Thursday as usual.

So for example the first word I’m going to give you is “Summer”, so your prompt could be “My memories of Summer as a child”. Get it?

Here’s the best bit though. The five posts with the most imaginative and unique prompts will be used as the inspiration for NEXT week’s workshop, with a nice plug for your blog too. And, hell, I’m feeling generous… you’ll win a prize too. Just a little one. Something delicious (if I can resist eating them first).

However, I also want to give you full permission to bunk off this week. If the weather is lovely and grass and ice cream and snoozes in the shade are calling then sod the workshop this week and go and enjoy the weather while it lasts.

Ok?

Blimey I’m a bit bossy today. Oops.

As usual, 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.

So here are some words and phrases to get you started (I wonder if you can divine the inspiration behind them all? Not that they’re really obvious or anything or based around anything I’ve been doing or thinking about for the last few days… ahem):

1. Summer

2. Lost

3. In the Garden

4. A Wedding

5. Escape

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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