Writing Workshop Prompts: Coming to a screen near you…

Ready for this week’s writing prompts? Thank you SO much for everyone who took part last week after the break.

For any newcomers to our Workshop, here’s how it works: each week I’ll give you five 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.

This week our prompts are inspired by MOVIES! I kind of loved the book titles last time, so all of these are titles of films out recently. Can’t wait to see what you come up with.

Once again, don’t feel restricted by my suggestions. Would love to see your own interpretations:

1. Due Date
- Tell us about something anticipated and what happened when it arrived.

2. Paranormal Activity
- Have you got a spooky story you can share?

3. Despicable Me
- Confess a time you did something you’re really ashamed of.

4. Red
- Something this colour inspires in you.

5. Buried
- Perhaps you have something you’d like to put to rest, or something you need to exhume?

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.

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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