Carol Carman’s Writing Club Prompt: Free Week

This week – the prompt is entirely up to you.

This is a free week for you.

Write about whatever you like.

You could be inspired by absolutely anything: nature, architecture, food, sport, history, geography, art, archaeology, entertainment, literature – the list goes on.

You don’t have to write reams.  The poet Ian McMillan posts on social media every day about his ‘early stroll’. This is one of his: Clouds crowd the sky. The pleasure of chewing apple pips. A faint and fading rainbow. Someone whizzes by on a bike, trying to outcycle the weather. Birds swirl like tea leaves in a cup.

So you could follow that example. Go for a walk, take paper and pencil and jot down what catches your eye and what you can hear and smell. Look at your neighbourhood through new eyes.

Or, you could open a book at random, read a page and pick out a word from that page to use as a prompt.

Or you can have a look back through the previous prompts here on the website.

So let’s see what you come up with!

Remember this is just a prompt for you. If you’re writing anything else, why not let us have a look at that?

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

Send your piece to louise.hulland@bbc.co.uk and we’ll review them when we next meet on the radio.

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