Carol Carman’s Writing Club Prompt: K is for Key (or keys)

This week – the prompt is K is for key or keys.

Is it a single key or a bunch?

What does the key unlock? A door? A box? A padlock? What’s the story once the thing has been unlocked?

Or is the key for a clock, or a tin of sardines or a car?

Maybe it’s a low-lying island, especially in the Caribbean.

Perhaps something is the key to a mystery or the key to someone’s heart; there are keys on a piano and on a computer keyboard; you get a a keystone in an arch.

Maybe it’s a map or diagram which has a key to help decipher it.

It used to be said that people got the key of the door when they came of age

Music is written in a particular key.

When decorating, often gloss paint is sanded down to provide a good ‘key’ for the next coat of paint.

So, it’s the usual stuff – who, what, 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 – prompted by the word ‘key’. But it is only a prompt. If you’ve got something else that you’re burning to write about, then write about that.

Send them to louise.hulland@bbc.co.uk and we’ll talk about them when we next meet!


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