This week’s prompt is – M is for Money.
You can go anywhere you like with this prompt.
Modern or pre-decimal or ancient money? If everyone is using pre-decimal currency, that would instantly let your readers know that this is not a modern story.
Wage packet or salary? Wage packet is a good way to trigger a memory for a chapter for a memoir. How much did you get? What did you do with it?
Small change or large notes or big numbers on your account?
What is your character’s relationship with the money in the story – how important is it to your character? Have they lost it? Found it? Inherited it? Won it? Donated it? Stolen it? Been robbed of it? Are they buying something with it? Legally or illegally?
It could be foreign money – are your characters abroad?
Is it money for nothing or money for old rope?
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 ‘money’. 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 review them when we next meet on 10th November.