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  • Carol Carman’s Writing Club Prompt: G is for Ground

    This week – the prompt is G is for Ground. This opens up a world of possibilities. There’s ground as in terra firma, the earth beneath your feet, and it’s usually outside (inside it’s a floor, outside it’s the ground).  You can break new ground, metaphorically or literally, if you’re having groundworks done; you can…

  • Carol Carman’s Writing Club Prompt: F is for Face

    This week – the prompt is F is for Face. Face could also include facial and facing. Obviously, you have the arrangement of features on the front of a head. But whose face is it? Adult? Child? Animal? Clock?  Known to you or not? Is it in a photo, or an artwork or real life?…

  • Carol Carman’s Writing Club Prompt: E is for Empty

    This week – the prompt is E is for Empty. You can go anywhere with this prompt. What is it that’s empty? A box? A bottle? A petrol tank? A crisp packet? A water butt? A purse? A house? An office block? Someone’s soul? A safe? A cinema, where you’ve gone to watch a film…

  • Carol Carman’s Writing Club Prompt: D is for Dear

    This week – the prompt is D is for Dear. There’s dear as in close to your heart; beloved. ‘He is very dear to me.’ Dear also means expensive – the opposite of cheap. And allied to that, it means costly in terms of the effect something can have on someone’s life. ‘He paid a…

  • Carol Carman’s Writing Club Prompt: C is for Common

    This week – the prompt is C is for Common. It could mean ordinary, as in ‘common or garden’ or shared, as in ‘a common purpose’. It could mean things are in great numbers, e.g. ‘Despite technology, notebooks are still common in schools.’ Common could mean being of a low social status, being coarse or…

  • Carol Carman’s Writing Club Prompt: B is for Ball

    This week – the prompt is B is for Ball. What kind of ball is it? Is it a sports ball? That’ll take you from ping-pong to ten-pin bowling and all stops in between right up to those massive inflatable balance balls. Is it to do with food? Cheese balls, puffball mushroom, doughballs, aniseed balls,…

  • Carol Carman’s Writing Club Prompt: A is for Attract, Attraction or Attractive

    This week – the prompt is This week – the prompt is A is for Attract, Attraction or Attractive Obviously there’s attraction between people, but animals do some weird things to attract a mate. Your story could be about trying to attract someone’s attention: in a restaurant, or to warn of danger (like in the…

  • Carol Carman’s Writing Club Prompt: Free Week

    This week – the prompt is entirely up to you. This is a free week for you. Write about whatever you like. You could be inspired by absolutely anything: nature, architecture, food, sport, history, geography, art, archaeology, entertainment, literature – the list goes on. You don’t have to write reams.  The poet Ian McMillan posts…

  • Carol Carman’s Writing Club Prompt: Z is for any word containing Z

    This week – the prompt is Z is for any word containing Z. Easy one this week – you can choose any word that’s got a z in it and use that as your prompt. So there’s a few common words starting with z – zone, zero, Zumba, zip, zinnias… but there’s many more containing…

  • Carol Carman’s Writing Club Prompt: Y is for Year

    This week – the prompt is Y is for Year. It could be a specific year, for example 1066 or the late Queen’s Jubilee year. It could be a year which is memorable to you for a specific reason. It could relate to how old someone is: x years of age, but then things are…

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