Writing Workshop Prompt – Escape
A new writing prompt for you. Sorry I didn’t manage one last week. Ready?
For anyone unfamiliar with my Writing Workshop, you can have a read all about it and browse old workshops here, or if you’re an old hand at this you can started.
Prompt
Running away is our theme this week. You could tell me something you once ran away from, or find yourself often running from, or write about something you wish you could escape.
Or tell me what/where you wish you could run TO, what would be your sanctuary? Perhaps imagine yourself free of responsibility. Where would you go? What would you take? What would you do once you got there?
Make it about real life, or an alternative life, or make up a story, about yourself or an invented character. It’s completely up to you.
Writing Workshop Prompt – Picture Walking
This week’s writing prompt! Fancy a go?
For anyone unfamiliar with my Writing Workshop, you can have a read all about it and browse old workshops here, or if you’re an old hand at this you can started.
Prompt
I’ve been studying perspective and composition in my degree this last couple of weeks, learning to ‘walk around’ drawings and paintings to work out why they’ve been put together that way.
This is what I want you to do this week too, but in words. Take a photo, or use a painting or drawing, and use words to take us on a journey past its flat surface and IN. You could make up a story about what’s really hidden behind paint marks on a canvas, or use a photo of a scene from your own life, or your past to tell us something about yourself or the people and things depicted.
Writing Workshop Prompts: Second
Hello there. Part of the reason this blog exists is to encourage my own and others’ writing and in all my distraction getting stuck into my art degree last year I managed to forget that a little. I feel strangely guilty, like the blog’s lost its way a little, and that’s no good.
So, *best commitment face*, let’s get back to it. New writing prompts every other Monday, with a chance to share your work on the Monday in between. It turns out 2012 is going to be unexpectedly full of writing for me and I’m going to really need the practice – I figure I might as well take you along for the ride. And for any of you that started the new year pledging to do more creative writing, or for those that just enjoy the excuse, hopefully our fortnightly prompts will give you a focus and a reason to sit down and try something new. You don’t need to be a writer, or even consider yourself any good. It can be a couple of hundred words or a longer piece – the important thing is just to have a go.
For anyone unfamiliar with my Writing Workshop, you can have a read all about it and browse old workshops here, or if you’re an old hand at this you can started.
Prompt
I wrote about January at the weekend and how the first month of the year is often my wash-out month, my false start, so with us moving into a more optimistic second month I thought that could be our prompt this week – second.
Write about a second something, a second anything. Does it come with the disappointment of not being a first? Or is second somehow better, without the pressure and expectation that comes with a first something? Write about yourself, an experience, something in your life, or in your past, write descriptive prose or poetry, or, (and I’d really like to see some more fiction on here), dream up a story with ‘second’ as the theme. It’s absolutely up to you how you interpret it.
Writing Workshop Prompts – Missing
I wrote a post on Sunday that seems to have touched a nerve a bit. And not just with single people, it seems, which just goes to show that a sense of missing something is something a lot of us have hanging over us sometimes.
So I thought maybe that’s what we could write about this week.
(For anyone unfamiliar with my Writing Workshop, have a read all about it and browse old workshops here, or if you’re an old hand at this you can started.)
Prompt
This week the theme is simply missing.
You can interpret this however you like. What is leaving a bit of a hole in your life at the moment? What do you feel is missing? How long have you been carrying this around and what do you think will fix it? Can it be fixed? Is it something emotional, physical, material? Can you even pin it down?
Don’t limit yourself to personal writing if you don’t want to – you could try creating an imaginary character to explore the theme, or write MISSING on a big sheet of paper, seeing what associations it brings, scribbling them down and then writing more on one of the things the word conjures up for you.
Writing Workshop Prompts – Collections
I know, late again. My unpredictable timekeeping makes me interesting and enigmatic though, right? Definitely NOT annoying? You can blame the Fibro for Monday’s lateness (Josie swallowed by a post-MADS black hole, urgh) and THIS for yesterday’s (SO EXCITED) but look, I’m here I’m here!
So then. What are we going to be writing about this week?
(For anyone unfamiliar with my Writing Workshop, have a read all about it and browse old workshops here, or if you’re an old hand at this you can started.)
Prompt
This week I want to hear about your collections. (no prizes for guessing where that idea came from)
Tell me about what you hoard, what you collect. Describe it to us, what is it about the things you collect that you love and that draws you to them? Tell us stories behind the things you’ve collected. Where did they come from? Do you know their history? Describe one item, or five, or ten, or whatever you want. What would you collect if you had the spare cash?
Writing Workshop Prompts: Tick Tock
Day late, I know. Shh, let’s pretend you haven’t noticed.
Ready for your new prompt?
(For anyone unfamiliar with my Writing Workshop, have a read all about it and browse old workshops here, or if you’re an old hand at this you can started.)
Prompt
Tick tock tick tock. Time seems to be taking on funny properties in our house just now. There are very little spaces in between things, rushed sleeps and food, in between pounding the pavements and juggling, well, EVERYTHING. Sometimes it seems like it’s getting ever faster, ticktockticktock, yet evey so often you hit a pocket of time that seems to stretch on and on forever, like the time sat in the dark waiting for the boy to finally sleep.
Tick
Tock
So your prompt this week is TIME.
Tell us how time affects your life. Perhaps you could describe those moments when time slips away from you, trying to capture it in words and rhythm, helping us feel what your life feels like when it’s galloping away. Or perhaps you could describe a moment when time seems to slow right down. What do you notice? What grabs your attention, in the rushed moments and the moments of stillness?
What makes you stop? What slows time for you? You could share something from your life now, or from memories past, or make something up! Perhaps you’d like to describe your perfect time-stopping moment.
Writing Workshop Prompts: I wish
Morning you lot. Apologies that the last workshop on ‘gifts’ ended up a bit of a non-event. The blog being down and THEN the stupid mumps – I didn’t stand a chance really. Thank you if you still took part – I hope if you wrote something you still got something out of it even though we didn’t get a chance to share our posts on the linky this time. The new linky for this week’s workshop will be up on Monday (hopefully! Plagues and other acts of God not withstanding!)
(For anyone unfamiliar with my Writing Workshop, have a read all about it and browse old workshops here, or if you’re an old hand at this you can started.)
Prompt
This week I want you to write about a wish.
It could be a simple thing, the first thing you think of – what do you wish for most? What does your head and your heart finish with when you say the words, “I WISH FOR…” It could be a brand new wish or one you’ve carried around with you for a while. It could be well within the realms of possibility, something fairly practical and mundane, or you could let your imagination run wild and dream up the most elaborate fantastical wish you can think of. You could write about a wish from your past – what did you wish for as a child? Have any of them come true? If your wish is something achievable, in theory, what is it that keeps you from it? Do you believe wishes come true simply by hoping for them? Or do you have to be a bit more proactive? How could you make your wish a reality? It could be one wish, or a whole list full, or three, even, if you feel like appealing to a friendly genie. Completely up to you.
Tell me what you wish for!
Writing Workshop Prompts: Gifts
Hey folks. Here’s a new prompt for you – I hope it helps get you writing this week.
I’m feeling quite blessed at the moment. Just in an appreciating-the-good-things way. I’m lucky in that it doesn’t always take a lot to make me happy, but I seem to have been on the receiving end of a whole heap of lovely things and experiences lately. So I wanted a prompt that would help me mark that a little this week.
(For anyone unfamiliar with my Writing Workshop, have a read all about it and browse old workshops here, or if you’re an old hand at this you can started.)
Prompt
Write about a gift – something you gave or were given.
It could be something physical, material, tangible, like a present, or something a bit more abstract, like an experience. It’s up to you how you want to interpret it.
You could write about the experience of receiving/giving, or the thought behind it. What did it change? How did it make you feel? (Not all gifts are always welcome, after all!) Perhaps you could write about your idea of the perfect gift? Something imagined but never received?
As always, the more creative you can be with a simple idea and the more unique you can make it, the better.
