Carol Carman’s Writing Club Prompt: F is for Flat

This week – the prompt is F is for Flat.

You can go anywhere with this prompt.

There’s flat as in smooth and level with an absence of lumps and bumps, whether that’s a landscape or a surface or a sheet of paper, the sea – anything like that, and obviously there’s the verb to flatten.

Then of course, there’s flat as in apartment – a block of flats, a flatshare, a flatmate.

Musical notes can be flat – whether deliberately or accidentally.

There’s flats as in women’s flat shoes.

In the theatre, a part of a scene mounted on a wooden frame which is pushed in horizontally or lowered on to the stage is called a flat

Jokes can fall flat, fizzy drinks can go flat, you can have a flat tyre, flat feet, flat battery, you can turn something down flat, you can feel flat, be flat broke, go flat racing…

So, it’s the usual stuff – who, where, when, how and why?

Let’s hear your stories, poems, pieces of descriptive writing – don’t forget it doesn’t have to be the complete story – as long as it’s prompted by the word ‘flat’.

Send them to louise.hulland@bbc.co.uk and we’ll review them when we meet again on 22nd July!


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