Writing Workshop: Sisterhood

Welcome back to your Writing Workshop.

At the bottom of this post you’ll find the widget to link up your posts. It’s open till Sunday so don’t worry if you haven’t had chance to join in just yet – there’s lots more time.

I’ve chosen prompt number one – write a post celebrating sisterhood.

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For my beautiful sister in the dollhouse.

I wonder what you see,
when you look at us?
Two women drowning in a sea of coffee cups and chaos.
Our earnest conversation punctuated with
exasperated sighs and shouts,
crisps and crumbs in aromatic air and hair.

I wonder if you listen to our whispered woes
and see the looks that pass between our tired eyes.
Our hands may well be wiping mouths and soothing brows,
but if you watch you may well see
their briefest squeeze
and something unsaid hang there in the space between.

I wonder if you squint and tilt your head a bit you’ll see
our twenty shared years fall like crayons to the floor
to leave two pale, determined, smiling girls,
still too thin and loud and free of mind,
our arms wrapped tight around each other’s fragile hearts.
Not letting go.

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So now it’s your turn. What prompt did you choose?

1. Write a post celebrating sisterhood: a friend, a blood-sister, or someone that feels like one.
- Inspired by English Mum’s beautiful post on love, sisterhood and friendship. Go read and take up her pledge.

2. “Why I want a ………..” – fill in the blank!
- Inspired by Two Become Four who was lusting after a new iPhone last week.

3. All’s well that ends well. Tell us about a difficult journey that ended with a positive resolution..
- Inspired by Little Mummy Erica’s moving story of her relationship with her Dad.

4. Tell me your worst habit(s).
- Inspired by Keep Calm and Eat Cake who’s been trying to break some of hers this week.

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

5. Found
- Inspired by Deer Baby’s post Finders Keepers

Leave your name and the URL to your post in the MckLinky below (the URL should be to your post not just to your blog) and leave me a comment to let me know you’ve taken part. If you have the time it would be great if you could try and read and comment on at least two other entries. And be kind! It’s supposed to be a bit of fun – we’re not looking for the next Booker Prize winner here.

If you haven’t had chance to respond yet, then you’ve still got till Sunday to enter your link! Or just wait till next week, when there’ll be five brand new prompts to get you thinking.

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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