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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…

  • 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’…

  • 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…

  • 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?…

  • 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,…

  • Carol Carman’s Writing Club Prompt: Free week

    This week – it’s a free week. We’ve reached the end of the alphabet and before we start again, this is your chance to write about whatever you like. Absolutely anything. Go on – give it a go.

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…