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  • Carol Carman’s Writing Club Prompt: X is for All Sorts of Things

    X can be used in voting, or on very old documents such as marriage certificates, where if someone couldn’t read they would mark an x instead of signing; you use it playing noughts and crosses, marking things as wrong, or denoting a location on a treasure map; it’s the horizontal axis on a graph, it’s…

  • Carol Carman’s Writing Club Prompt: W is for Watch

    So, we have watch as in a timepiece. What’s it’s significance? What’s it look like? Is it antique? Worth any money or does it have sentimental attachment?  Why could somebody be looking at their watch? Is someone late, or early? There’s watch as in to look at something, to observe it – TV, cinema, wildlife,…

  • Carol Carman’s Writing Club Prompt: V is for Volume

    Well, there’s volume as in sound level. What is the sound? Is it loud or soft? What effect does it have? When is it happening? Is it a good sound or a bad sound? It could be the sound of someone breathing, or someone mowing their lawn at three o’clock in the morning.

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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……

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • Carol Carman’s Writing Club Prompt: O is for Out

    This could be something as simple as in ‘I’m just going out for a walk.’ Or maybe your characters have been out somewhere and they’ve just returned. Where’ve they been? What’s happened while they were out? Out could be a warning – hostile: ‘Get out of my pub!’ or danger: ‘Get out – the roof’s…