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Carol Carman’s Writing Club Prompt: O is for Open
Our next writing prompt is O for open. Such a small word applies in many different ways. You can open little things – jars, bottles, packets, parcels – or large things: you can open doors, open a new building, a business, a fair or a fete, or you can open your garden to the public.…
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Come and see me!
If you’re in the Huntingdon area on 31st August, please do come and see me at this event. I’ll be there, selling my comedy fantasy books Gingerbread Children and Twicetime. Come and have a chat! I’ve put up a poster for the event (see below) as well as what you can expect from my books.…
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Carol Carman’s Writing Club Prompt: N is for Needle
Plenty of variety on this subject for you to have a go at. What sort of needle is it? Sewing needle? Hand sewing, machine sewing, upholstery needle?Surgical sewing or injections? If it’s any of those, are you on the receiving end of it, or is it you that’s using the needle? For what purpose? Then…
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You Can’t Call It Music
The prompt of ‘music’ was a very fruitful one for the Writing Club resulting in some very powerful stories from the listeners to BBC Local Radio in the East. And, as I do every time there’s a Writing Club, I also write something based on the prompt. Well, you’ve got to put your money where…
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Carol Carman’s Writing Club Prompt: M is for Music
95% of us enjoy music. It’s all around us. It’s rare to go a day without hearing music. Radio, TV programmes, films, adverts, ice-cream vans, ringtones, passing cars blaring out favourite tunes at top volume… So, for the purposes of your story or poem, here are some ideas to get you going if you need…
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Carol Carman’s Writing Club Prompt: L is for Laundry
Something we’ve all got to do with alarming and depressing regularity. So, let’s make it exciting. What is it that’s being washed? Why? What’s on it that needs to be washed off? How did it get mucky? How important is it that it gets washed? Who’s washing it? Why are they washing it? Are they…
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Carol Carman’s Writing Club Prompt: K is for Kitchen
Give us a story or poem or some piece of writing about the kitchen. They say the kitchen is the heart of the home. What happens in the kitchen? Is it about the cooking? Maybe the stress of cooking for guests – who’s coming, what’s the occasion? Why is it so important? What’s going wrong?…
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Carol Carman’s Writing Club Prompt: J is for Jewellery
Jewel/Jewellery/ Jeweller Some ideas to get you started: Is it a single piece of jewellery, or a lot? Is it a single gemstone, or a bagful of gems? Is it real, or fake, or costume jewellery? What’s the story associated with it / them? Personal or professional? Personal – whose is it / was it?…
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Carol Carman’s Writing Club Prompt: I is for Impress
Impress / Impressions / Impressive To make an impression – to make a mark. Literally: in clay, pottery; sand – on the beach; mud – fossilised footprints; wax – sealing a letter or document; plasticine – when you were at school; cement – handprints in cement, like outside Grauman’s Chinese theatre in Hollywood when Mel…
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Carol Carman’s Writing Club Prompt: H is for Hotel
Plenty of scope for stories and poems here. First of all, the hotel itself. How big is it? Is it a magnificent, expensive place, or is it quiet and cosy, or run-down and in need of some TLC? How many rooms? The more rooms, the more stories that take place in those rooms. Who’s staying…