Writing Workshop #27 – Faith, magic and genetic inheritance

Welcome back to your weekly Writing Workshop.

For any newbies (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’s this week’s prompts!

1. What qualities or traits do you think your children have inherited from you, you partner, or even from your extended family?
- Inspired by this gorgeous photo taken by Mummy Musings: Like Father, Like Daughter.

2. Write about an event that restored your faith in something.
- Inspired by From Marketing to Milk and a dream that restored her belief (just a little bit).

3. What’s your magical power? Or what would you like it to be?
- Inspired by the Moiderer and her lovely post about being a magic mummy.

4. Tell us about a time when you didn’t feel welcome.
- Inspired by Notes from Lapland and her reflections on whether England is Child Unfriendly.

And finally, the last prompt now is going to be just one word. This should allow you a bit more creative freedom if you feel like taking the safety harness that particular week.

5. Your word for the week is: She
- Inspired by the beautiful poem on Life Slightly Used’s blog 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:

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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