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  • 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…

  • Carol Carman’s Writing Club Prompt: N is for Noise

    The world is full of noise – some good, some bad, some irritating but necessary. What kind of noise is in your story? Is it the presence or the absence of noise that’s important? Think about how you would describe it – or how you would describe whatever it is making the noise. Is it…

  • Carol Carman’s Writing Club Prompt: M is for Money

    This week’s prompt is – M is for Money. You can go anywhere you like with this prompt. Modern or pre-decimal or ancient money? If everyone is using pre-decimal currency, that would instantly let your readers know that this is not a modern story. Wage packet or salary? Wage packet is a good way to…

  • Carol Carman’s Writing Club Prompt: L is for Light (or lights)

    This week – the prompt is L is for light or lights. So you can have light as in illumination – ‘Put the light on!’ And think of what words can go before light to make different forms of illumination: daylight, moonlight… and also think about where the light is coming from – the sun,…

  • Carol Carman’s Writing Club Prompt: K is for Key (or keys)

    This week – the prompt is K is for key or keys. Is it a single key or a bunch? What does the key unlock? A door? A box? A padlock? What’s the story once the thing has been unlocked? Or is the key for a clock, or a tin of sardines or a car?…

  • Carol Carman’s Writing Club Prompt: J is for Jump (or anything to do with jump)

    This week – the prompt is J is for jump or anything to do with jump. There’s jump as in literally jump up and down, and so you can have athletics events – high jump, long jump, triple jump… racehorses can go over the jumps and there’s jumping jacks and jump jets… And then there’s…

  • Carol Carman’s Writing Club Prompt: I is for Iron

    This week – the prompt is I is for iron. This prompt can open up lots of areas for you to explore. There’s iron as in the metal – think of all the things that can be made from iron: gates, railings, pans, the trivets on a gas hob, waffle irons, branding irons, golf clubs,…

  • Carol Carman’s Writing Club Prompt: H is for Heavy or Heavily

    This week – the prompt is H is for heavy or heavily. This prompt can take you in loads of different directions: It can be as basic as someone or something is heavy. Why is whatever it is heavy? Is it an advantage or a disadvantage that it’s heavy? How does it affect your plot?…

  • Carol Carman’s Writing Club Prompt: G is for Gold or Golden

    This week – the prompt is G is for Gold or Golden Plenty of opportunities with this prompt – golden opportunities, you might say… There’s gold as in precious metal – gold bars, gold jewellery – new, antique or ancient, gold thread, gold teeth, gold filling, the gold earring that pirates are reputed to have…

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

    This week – the prompt is F is for Flat. You can go anywhere with this prompt. There’s flat as in smooth and level with an absence of lumps and bumps, whether that’s a landscape or a surface or a sheet of paper, the sea – anything like that, and obviously there’s the verb to…