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Carol Carman’s Writing Club Prompt: B is for Bottle
This week – the prompt is B is for Bottle It could be just a bottle so things to think about: What sort of bottle? What shape is it? How old is it? Is it intact, or broken? Is it worth anything? Where is it? On a shelf? In a shop? Underground? In somebody’s bag?…
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Carol Carman’s Writing Club Prompt: A is for Art
This week – the prompt is A is for Art. Now this could mean a work of art figures in your piece – a painting, sculpture, a performance… Perhaps your character is the artist – the one creating the art. Perhaps your story takes place in an art gallery – who could that involve? Customers,…
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Carol Carman’s Writing Club Prompt: Z is for Zoo
This week – the prompt is Z is for Zoo or zoology or zoological. A zoo is a place full of animals – and staff, and visitors. Your piece doesn’t have to take place in the zoo – it could be outside the zoo, next door to it, across the street. It could be about…
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Carol Carman’s Writing Club Prompt: Y is for Yellow
The yellow can be incidental to your story, the springboard for it or a major part of it. Loads of things can be yellow: Clothing – including hi-vis clothing, but also have a think about clothing that’s not normally yellow – like a suit or a raincoat. Unusual things intrigue us both as people and…
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Carol Carman’s Writing Club Prompt: X is for… X
Have a think about how we use the letter X. If you’re marking something, it’s ticks for correct and crosses – or Xs – for incorrect. Putting an X in the box is how we vote. X is used to denote an unknown quantity, which you’ll remember from trying to solve equations at school or…
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A Glimpse into My Childhood
This is my piece for the Writing Club prompt ‘W is for Window’. The window I looked up to the sky through had a cracked pane, the result of my dad flailing a cardigan at an irritating bluebottle. The cardigan had a penny in the pocket – one of those big old heavy pre-decimalisation pennies,…
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Carol Carman’s Writing Club Prompt: W is for Window
Despite Louise Hulland suggesting that after last week’s foreshadowing of car trouble, this week’s prompt should be ‘Winning the lottery’, it is, in fact, W for window. There’s plenty of scope for stories involving a window. Are you on the outside looking in, or inside looking out? Either way, what’s going on on the other…
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Something Amiss in My Engine
Oh, the irony. This poem, for Carol Carman’s Writing Club, Prompt: V is for Vehicle, was written well before the 19th of January, when something went wrong in our car engine which meant I coudn’t get to the BBC studios on the 20th to present the poem in person. There was something amiss in my…
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Carol Carman’s Writing Club Prompt: V is for Vehicle
Happy New Year, one and all. Writing Club across BBC in the East of England is off and running again, and this time your prompt is ‘vehicle’. According to the dictionary, vehicle is a general term for anything by means of which people or goods may be conveyed, although always more commonly used as a…
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Carol Carman’s Writing Club Prompt: U is for Uniform
Lots of different people wear uniforms – not just the military services, but nurses, emergency services, police, commercial pilots, cabin crew, ground staff, some shop workers, posties, schoolchildren, restaurant staff, hotel workers, some construction workers, athletes… I’m sure you can think of more. You might say that standard business suits for both men and women…