Writing Workshop #33 – Fate, Change and a Eureka Moment

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.

And remember! We’re not looking for perfection here! Just have a go! The best way to get better at writing is PRACTISE. All the best writers aren’t afraid to write badly. So turn your inner-critic off for a while and just see what words come out.

Here’s this week’s prompts!

1. Do you believe in fate? What in your life feels ‘meant to be’, good or otherwise.
- Inspired by Karin at Cafe Bebe who shared the lovely story of her and her hubby on the Writing Workshop last week.

2. Tell us about a Eureka moment, when you had a sudden flash of inspiration or insight.
- Inspired by Julia at What Will Julia Do Next? who has been guest posting on Him Up North’s fab blog.

3. How have you changed? Recently or longer-term…
- Inspired by Jax at Making it Up who’s been wondering how she ended up where she is and is bravely trying to rediscover herself.

4. What has felt relentless lately?
- Inspired by A Small Hand in Mind who is well and truly fed up with rain!

5. Release
- Suggested my beautiful friend Metajugglamum

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 in the U.S.

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