Posts made in November, 2010
Writing Prompts: Let’s Get Lyrical! (groan… sorry)
Happy Monday and hello from me. Apologies for radio silence, I’m not dead, I promise, but recovering from what was a really nasty bug and an awful week to go with it so not feeling too great. I’m struggling a bit to be honest. Losing confidence, losing faith in myself… just lost really. Anyway. I’ll be alright but things may be a bit quiet from me for a while. Just can’t seem to regain my equilibrium at the moment.
It’s a bit of a do-it-yourself Writing Workshop this week with the theme suggested by Emma. We’ve done books and films in the last few weeks, so this week our writing is going to be inspired by songs.
I’m not going to suggest any but keep your ear open in the next day or two for a song that catches your ear and base your writing either on the song’s title or use a lyric from the song to inspire you.
If you’re REALLY stuck for ideas you could always check the list of the latest top 40 singles and see if any of the titles suggest something you could write about.
For any newcomers to our Workshop, here’s how it works: each week I’ll give you a bunch of 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 write 10 words or 1,000. 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 I happened to be thinking 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.
Now here’s what you have to do. Pick your prompt and 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.
See you on Thursday!
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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.
Read MoreWriting Workshop: Found Words
Morning folks. I am crawling off the sofa for three minutes to put your McLinky up. I have tonsillitis and the flu 
Probably the most ill I’ve been in a long time, and coupled with having a very grumpy Kai at home, it’s been a pretty miserable few days.
My post is only half-finished so rather than keep you all waiting I thought I’d put this up now, and edit to add my own post when I’m feeling rather less like my head is going to fall off.
I hope you’ve enjoyed taking part. This week your prompts were inspired by a series of found words.
Which one did you chose?
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) If you have the time it would be great if you could try and read and comment on at least two other entries.
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.
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Writing Workshop Prompts: Found Words
Morning folks. I’m fresh back from a fab weekend in Glasgow visiting my best friend and while I was there I had a bit of a clever idea for this week’s writing prompts. We spent lots and lots of time walking around the city with me taking photos as usual and as we did we kept our eyes open for words and phrases that jumped out at us and we thought might inspire you to write.
There’s more than 5 today as they all seemed too good to leave out so you’ve got lots to chose from.
Which one jumps out at you?
For any newcomers to our Workshop, here’s how it works: each week I’ll give you a bunch of 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 write 10 words or 1,000. 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 I happened to be thinking 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.
Now here’s what you have to do. Pick your prompt and 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.
See you on Thursday!
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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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