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  • Carol Carman’s Writing Club Prompt: U is for Unusual

    This week – the prompt is U is for Unusual. Unusual. Out of the ordinary. Something you wouldn’t expect. Strange. Different. Not normal. It could be something out of place… a window open when it shouldn’t be or a door closed when it should be open. Maybe it’s somebody who shouldn’t be where they are,…

  • Carol Carman’s Writing Club Prompt: T is for Track

    This week – the prompt is T is for Track. As a noun, there’s track as in a footpath, a track as in a running track, or track as in an individual song an LP/CD.  Animals leave tracks through the woods or in the snow. Railway tracks criss-cross the country, and it used to be…

  • Short Fiction: The Same Every Time

    I turned my car towards the hotel with some trepidation, to be honest, even though I knew exactly what was going to happen. I didn’t want to go there at all, and if I thought I could have got away with it I’d have gone straight past and ignored her, but I knew she’d have…

  • Carol Carman’s Writing Club Prompt: S is for Stand

    This week – the prompt is S is for Stand (or stood). So, you can stand as in literally ‘rise to’ or ‘be on’ your feet.  It’s also a way of saying someone’s height – Journeyman Tom stands 6’ 7”. Your hair stands on end. It can mean ‘to place something’: on the top table…

  • Short Fiction: A Letter From Jane Austen To Her Brother

    My dearest Edward, How timely is your wonderful invitation to come and stay with you a while in Hampshire! I am in sore need of a prolonged rest with little to disturb me, for I am quite beset with all manner of communications which clamour for my attention, hence my tardiness in replying to your…

  • Carol Carman’s Writing Club Prompt: R is for Rest

    This week – the prompt is R is for Rest. There’s rest as in repose or taking a break from something – having a rest. There’s rest as in to put something down for a short while – rest your hand on someone’s shoulder… or rest a burden or a piece of work on something……

  • Poem: A Blind Date? What Were You Thinking?

    Why am I doing this? What shall I wear? Do I have time to colour my hair? What about nail varnish? Heels or flat shoes? Dress, skirt or trousers? Why can’t I choose? What shall we talk about? Where will we go? Why am I bothered? Why didn’t I say no? What if he’s awful?…

  • Carol Carman’s Writing Club Prompt: Q is for Question

    Asking a question is a great way into a story, because it gives you endless possibilities. It doesn’t have to be a momentous question. Think of how an innocuous question such as – ‘What time is it?’ or ‘Who did you see in the Post Office?’ – has given vital information to Miss Marple or…

  • Poem: Seize the Clay

    Mrs Sybil Cottery And her husband, Ray, Had a ceramics business Making things from clay. They’d bought a lottery ticket And with the cash they’d won Decided to make pottery, Quirky, weird and fun. They fired up their wheels and kilns As quickly as they could; Ambition, though, outwei

  • Carol Carman’s Writing Club Prompt: P is for Pot, Plant or Prism

    This is in honour of our late friend Sue in Beeston Regis, a valued member of Writing Club. Sue left some wishes for ways to remember her: one was to buy a nice autumnal pot plant for the windowsill, and another was to enjoy the colours produced by a prism refracting light. So, your prompt…

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