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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…
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Carol Carman’s Writing Club Prompt: G is for Garden
You can just describe a garden if you like – let us really picture it in our mind’s eye. Is it formal? Informal? Large? Small? Modern? Traditional? You could write a piece about what you get out of a garden – whether it’s actual produce or flowers, or whether it’s inner peace and a state…
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Carol Carman’s Writing Club Prompt: F is for Free or Freedom
What does freedom mean to you? There are many types of freedom – freedom from slavery/ pain/ hate; free from restrictive shackles; freedom from unhappy relationships; freedom as in off the leash. There are different interpretations of free: unoccupied – is this seat free?; free – not paid for; free – as in loosening something…
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Carol Carman’s Writing Club Prompt: E is for Expecting
Who or what were you expecting? Where? Why? Why is it important? Does it matter if it gets there on time? What happens after it turns up? Oh, the anticipation! How does your character feel about it? It could be an object, or a result of an exam or a test or the result of…
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Carol Carman’s Writing Club Prompt: D is for Drive
Various forms of transport: car, bus, train, tram, trolleybus, steamroller, tractor, ambulance, military vehicle… Is your character doing the driving, or are they being driven? Where to? What for? Who’s with them? What are they feeling? Excited / anxious/ scared /bored / filled with dread? Do they have to be somewhere at a certain time?…
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Carol Carman’s Writing Club Prompt: C is for Collections
Lots to think about here. You can have collections as in people collecting things, like stamps, or china ornaments, or a certain type of glassware, or little plastic heads of famous footballers (Joe Mercer’s England Squad 1971, anybody?). So from that you can widen it out to What does this character collect? What kind of…