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Writing Workshop Prompts: Personality Catwalk
I spent a lovely couple of hours yesterday reading all your workshop posts from last week. Thank you so much for joining in and sharing what were such a mix of personal, honest, brave and creative entries. We had personal stories, poems, we had descriptive writing, fiction, we even had an audio reading - it really did make me fall in love with the workshop again and remind me why I do it. I mean it when I say that it was an absolute privilege to get to share your head-space for a while, and while I may not have time to comment on all entries every time, I will do my very best because I do think it’s important you all feel like your writing has been well-read when you put so much of yourselves into it. So thank you – I hope you’ll find this week equally inspiring.
Long-time readers of this blog will know that one of the things that it chronicles most vividly is my journey in trying to figure out who I am, understand better about how I tick, and. harder still, try to like the person I find. More recent readers will know that at this stage of my life I’m probably closest to that as I have ever been, with me finally beginning to feel a sense of real identity and a confidence in it.
Rather weirdly, but perhaps not coincidently, my interest in fashion has echoed this. For a long time I felt too unattractive, too uncomfortable in my skin, too nothing to give much thought to clothes or how I look, but these days the clothes I wear are really starting to be another way in which I express myself and tell the world about who I am. Now… I’m broke, so this means more charity shop scouring and mix-and-matching supermarket sales bargains than anything else, but as my sense of self is growing, so is my sense of style (at least, I’d like to think so!)
Maybe I’m a little late in the game to this one, but I’m beginning to love how a certain pair of shoes, or a hat, or a bag, or an anything can say something about me. And I’m enjoying discovering what I like, and what I don’t like and what suits me and what makes me feel good.
Which leads us on to our Workshop prompts this week…
Read MoreWriting Workshop: Red Shoes
Welcome back to the Wednesday Writing Workshop link-up! At the bottom of this post you’ll find the widget to post the link to your workshop posts. But first, I guess it’s my turn. Now I had been excitedly planning to do prompt #1 but we’ve had nothing but rain, rain, rain and everywhere looks so grim and miserable. So I’m going to save that one for another day, and instead I’ve picked prompt #3 and found a picture of some shoes that I think reflect my personality pretty well…
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With thanks to Fete et Fleur for the image
The owner of these shoes is comfortable in her own skin, liking the feel of it and the way she seems to have grown into it, just as the soft leather of her shoes has moulded and knitted itself to the shapes and curves of her small, narrow feet.
The owner of these shoes burns as hot as they do, full of spark and passion and fire and drive. She feels connected to the blood that flows through her veins, blood of her ancestors and of the land beneath her feet.
The owner of these shoes is not afraid to wear them with stripy socks under flared, faded jeans, even though they may not match, or to team with long, slightly awkward legs and too-short skirts. They reflect the easy smile and bright eyes that eagerly meet your own, although may sometimes be hidden behind a frown and twist of her lips as she bites down nervously, or in concentration.
The owner of these shoes knows that there is no place like home, but knows too that home is found not in the too-small house or not-good enough neighbourhood, but in the way they tuck just perfectly under the leg of her beloved as she sits on their worn, leather sofa.
The owner of these shoes adamantly refuses to grow up or wear ‘grown up’ shoes. She cannot be trusted in heels, and may throw a wobbler if she is required to trade them in for a more appropriate alternative. She does not like dress codes, or ‘work wear’, or power dressing or fashion of any description.
The owner of these shoes is quite adept at getting them stuck in her mouth, tripping over her words as much as she does her own feet and somehow managing to never quite verbalise the words she would like to, although she can write as eloquently as you could wish to.
The owner of these shoes has a tendency to run and skip when she excited, enjoying the freedom of her muscles and the bounce of the ground under her feet.
The owner of these shoes has walked a hundred thousand miles, some admittedly slower than others, but always with a spring in her step and a sense of discovery. She is not afraid to let her feet do the walking and her head catch up a little way behind, or to take the road less travelled, venturing down forgotten paths and unexplored turnings.
The owner of these shoes does not take short cuts, preferring the scenery of the meandering path and knowing that she will always get there in end. They are used to being splashed through puddles, kicked through leaves, propped up on park benches as their owner sits with book on lap. They are not concerned with looking slightly worn or well-loved as their owner is both these things, having faded and been polished back to life over and over.
They will last a lifetime, just as she will.
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So now it’s your turn! What prompt did you choose?
1. Pictures of home: Go for a walk near where you live, and take photos of the things that scream ‘home’ to you.
- Inspired by Kelly and her beautiful early evening walk.
2. Blog about a button you pressed that you weren’t supposed to.
-Inspired by Laura ‘Are we nearly there yet’ and her Phantom Beeper
3. Find a picture of a shoe that best sums up your personality.
-Inspired by the lovely Gabfran and her shoe-related blog, and Jo Beaufoix’s ‘Special’ Shoes
4. Tell me about something precious you gave away.
- Inspired by the very inspirational Muddling Along Mummy who has become a breastmilk donor.
5. Write about the best (or worst) piece of advice you have ever been given.
- Inspired by ME! and all the fantastic advice you gave me this week.
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) andleave me a comment to let me know you’ve taken part. If you have the time it would be great if you could try and read and comment on at least two other entries. And be kind! It’s supposed to be a bit of fun – we’re not looking for the next Booker Prize winner here!
If you haven’t had chance to respond yet, then you’ve still got today! Or just wait till next week, when there’ll be five brand new prompts to get you thinking.
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 over in the U.S.
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