Writing Workshop #34 – Kissing, strangers, and letting go

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.

Time has been a bit short this week with all the Blogladesh buzz so prompt inspiration has come with help from my lovely followers on Twitter. They’ve come up with some BRILLIANT ones!

1. Tell the story of a first kiss
- suggested by Snaffles Mummy and her post about little Snaffle’s first kiss this week

2. “Between the cracks”
- Suggested by Chris at Thinly Spread

3. Pay attention to a stranger you meet this week or observe, and write about them.
- suggested by Kate of the Five F’s blog who’s been guest posting over at The Blog Up North about a little girl she met.

4. Write about something you struggled to let go of.
- Inspired by Mummy Limited who did something for the last time this week.

5. Lucky
- Inspired by my friend Heather at Young and Younger and her awful scare 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 in the U.S.

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