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  • S is for shop or shopping

    S is for Shop.  Anything to do with a shop, or shopping, or a shopkeeper – so there’s plenty to go at. It could be a character shopping for something special – how easy is it for them to get the perfect present? What could go wrong? Maybe your character hates shopping… does online shopping……

  • R is for Round or A Round.

    Plenty of choice with this word. You could write a piece involving something that’s round. Easy as that. Think of all the various things that are physically round – in one dimension at least. For example, a carousel is round, but not spherical. Similarly, one of those giant water chute tube things. And if you…

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

    Q is for Queue or Queueing. Queue – the only word where you can take four of its letters out and it doesn’t change the sound of it. We’ve all had to do it – wait our turn, stand in line, watch another queue going faster than ours… Think of all the places you can…

  • The Photo

    This is my short fiction piece for the prompt of ‘photograph’. It’s 171 words long, which falls into the category of flash fiction; not everything has to be a major work. Everything in the bungalow was neat and pristine, except the photo frame. Its glass was clouded from her fingerprints, but she didn’t care. She’d…

  • Carol Carman’s Writing Club Prompt: P is for Photograph

    I’d like you to write something – story, poem, or just a little piece of writing – sparked off by a photograph. Is it in colour, or black and white? Formal, like a portrait photo, or more of a snap? Where’s this photo come from? Is it known to you or not? Have you found…

  • Getting In: A Poem for the Writing Club

    I wrote this poem for the Writing Club prompt of ‘open’, and I think it holds a lesson for us all. He tried password – it didn’t work; He tried 1234. He tried his place of birth but got No further than before. He tried his mother’s maiden name, His father’s mother’s too; He tried…

  • 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.…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…