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The Senior Citizen’s Lament
Written for the Writing Club prompt of ‘iron’. I iron creases from a shirt and think about my skin: You see it creped and wrinkled; you don’t see what’s within. You see my shoulders rounded; you see my face is red; But you’ve got no idea what’s going on inside my head… I don’t want…
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Carol Carman’s Writing Club Prompt: J is for Jump (or anything to do with jump)
This week – the prompt is J is for jump or anything to do with jump. There’s jump as in literally jump up and down, and so you can have athletics events – high jump, long jump, triple jump… racehorses can go over the jumps and there’s jumping jacks and jump jets… And then there’s…
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Carol Carman’s Writing Club Prompt: I is for Iron
This week – the prompt is I is for iron. This prompt can open up lots of areas for you to explore. There’s iron as in the metal – think of all the things that can be made from iron: gates, railings, pans, the trivets on a gas hob, waffle irons, branding irons, golf clubs,…
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Carol Carman’s Writing Club Prompt: H is for Heavy or Heavily
This week – the prompt is H is for heavy or heavily. This prompt can take you in loads of different directions: It can be as basic as someone or something is heavy. Why is whatever it is heavy? Is it an advantage or a disadvantage that it’s heavy? How does it affect your plot?…
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Carol Carman’s Writing Club Prompt: G is for Gold or Golden
This week – the prompt is G is for Gold or Golden Plenty of opportunities with this prompt – golden opportunities, you might say… There’s gold as in precious metal – gold bars, gold jewellery – new, antique or ancient, gold thread, gold teeth, gold filling, the gold earring that pirates are reputed to have…
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Carol Carman’s Writing Club Prompt: F is for Flat
This week – the prompt is F is for Flat. You can go anywhere with this prompt. There’s flat as in smooth and level with an absence of lumps and bumps, whether that’s a landscape or a surface or a sheet of paper, the sea – anything like that, and obviously there’s the verb to…
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Carol Carman’s Writing Club Prompt: E is for Exercise
This week – the prompt is E is for Exercise. Of course there’s physical exercise – making your muscles work for whatever purpose, e.g. getting fit, losing weight, improving balance and co-ordination, and often there’s a social element to it as well, as in keep-fit classes or dance your way to fitness, that sort of…
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Carol Carman’s Writing Club Prompt: D is for Date
This week – the prompt is D is for Date. A few different interpretations for date… A date as in 26th May 2025 or 1066 or 1941. To date as in ‘to tell the age of something’ as in the timbers have been dated as sixteenth century. To date as in ‘to not age well’…
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Carol Carman’s Writing Club Prompt: C is for Clock
This week – the prompt is C is for Clock. It could be simply a clock, in which case: What sort of clock? What’s it like? Working or broken? Valuable or not? Where is it? Who owns it – or owned it – if anybody? Why is it where it is, and in the state…
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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?…