It’s based on something Katie’s been doing during lockdown (so, yes, it’s all her fault). She found a daily writing prompt gave her more incentive to get some writing done. So, here’s the assignment for next time.

Write at least 50 words a day for two weeks – and here are the daily topics:

• Wellies
• Mountain
• Pen
• Cats
• Rainbow
• Autograph
• Cave
• Ringing
• Bus
• Blood
• Scales
• Beach
• Unlucky
• Wood

As always, the prompt is as flexible as you like. So, if the subject is ‘Cats,’ you could write about feline animals, but you might choose to use other meanings: the musical Cats, cat-o’-nine-tails whips, catamarans or catty people, for example.

And your writing could be a simple paragraph of description, or be developed into a poem, memoir, short story, play-script or any other format – you certainly don’t have to stop after 50 words if you can write more.

I’ll be putting daily reminders on the Island Writers Facebook group – let us know how you get on, even if you can’t make it to meetings!

NEXT MEETING: TUESDAY 17 AUGUST, 7pm-9pm at our house.