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Writing Prompts #6 – Picture Prompts and Precious Gifts

Posted by Josie on Nov 23, 2009 in Writing, Writing Workshop | 2 comments

Morning all! It’s that time of the week again!

For all your 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 have fun with it!

Prompts each week will 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 then send me an email or catch me on Twitter – I would love to hear your ideas.

So here they are. There’s a couple of photo inspired posts this week too, just for something a little different…

1. Pictures of home: Something slightly different for your first prompt this week. I want you to go for a walk near where you live, take photos of the things that scream ‘home’ to you. Come back, post them with a commentary and tell me why this place is so special to you. If the outdoors doesn’t inspire you, do the same thing with objects around your house.
- Inspired by Kelly and her beautiful early evening walk.

2. Blog about a button you pressed that you weren’t supposed to. Why did you press it? What did it do? This doesn’t just refer to a physical button – it could be an emotional button too!
-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. Tell me why. OR find me picture of a shoe that represents the person you wish you could be.
-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. Or give something away in response to this prompt and blog about it.
- Inspired by the very inspirational Muddling Along Mummy who has become a breastmilk donor.

5. Write about the best piece of advice you have ever been given. Or the worst piece of advice if you prefer!
- Inspired by ME! and all the fantastic advice you gave me this week.

Now here’s what you have to do. Write your post and publish it on your blog between now and Wednesday. On Wednesday 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 Wednesday’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 Wednesday then!

P.S. And if you fancy plugging this workshop on the social network of your choice? Then that would be fan-frigging-tastic.

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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 over in the U.S.