This week – the prompt is Y is for Year.
It could be a specific year, for example 1066 or the late Queen’s Jubilee year. It could be a year which is memorable to you for a specific reason.
It could relate to how old someone is: x years of age, but then things are calculated differently in cat- or dog-years, or in Martian years or Neptune years…
We talk about salaries or income being so much a year; Mr Darcy had an income of £10,000 a year.
School are based around year groups, from Reception to Year 13.
There’s a gap year, a light-year, leap year; financial year; the sporting year and others such.
New Year, which depends on culture and calendars; Chinese years have animals associated with them.
Someone could be wise beyond their years, or getting on in years, or puts years on you; they could be a player of the year, be in a yearbook or have fought in the Hundred Years’ War.
2026 is the International Year of the Woman Farmer, and of course 2012 was a marvellous Olympic Year.
And you can document the passing of a year with a diary, and think what happens every year – birthdays, anniversaries, religious festivals, bank holidays and cultural occasions, such as April Fool’s Day, Bonfire night, etc.
You could choose anything like that.
Let’s hear your stories, poems, pieces of descriptive writing prompted by ‘year’.
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.