This week – the prompt is X is for All Sorts of Things
X can be used in voting, or on very old documents such as marriage certificates, where if someone couldn’t read they would mark an x instead of signing; you use it playing noughts and crosses, marking things as wrong, or denoting a location on a treasure map; it’s the horizontal axis on a graph, it’s an unknown quantity or it’s ten in Roman numerals or it stands for a kiss.
If none of those float your boat, then pick yourself a word that’s got an x in it and use that as your prompt. So there’s plenty of words starting with ex – extravagant, exercise, expiry – I could go on, but there’s also many words ending with x, such as apex, box, crux, six, hoax, jinx, wax, index – you can find plenty more online. And don’t forget place names – Saxmundham, Felixstowe, Wrexham, Halifax, Oxford, Exeter… the world is your onyx, really.
Let’s hear your stories, poems, pieces of descriptive writing connected to X.
Plenty to go at. So, it’s the usual stuff – who, what, where, when, how and why?
This is just a prompt for you. If you’re writing anything else, why not let us have a look at that?
Send your piece to louise.hulland@bbc.co.uk and we’ll review them when we next meet on the radio.