Tag: creative writing

Not much longer to wait – the next meeting of Island Writers is on Tuesday, 4th December.

So if you haven’t had a chance to think about your assignment yet…

The assignment prompt from last session is: “Swept by the tide.”

Perhaps it’s a person, a treasured possession, something evil or dangerous, a special place or even a whole way of life which has been swept away.

Or maybe the ‘tide’ isn’t made of water, but something else?

There’s no limitation on writing style or genre –  choose prose, play script, poetry in any style or genre – whatever suits your subject and your preferred writing style.

Still struggling? Try completing this limerick:

There was a young lady from Ryde
Who was swept away by the tide…

Don’t feel ‘tide’ (sorry!) to this subject – simply choose a different topic, or get on with writing another chapter of your novel instead of ‘editing it’ for the 27th time.

Just try to get some new writing done. On any subject.

See you on December 4th at 7pm, Ryde Library.

Just a quick post to remind you all that the next meeting of Island Writers is next Tuesday, 20th November.

And we WILL be asking you how much writing you’ve done since we saw you last!

Eek!

Time to get your mouse moving – or your pen.

The assignment prompt from last session is: “Just before nine o’clock…”

It could be just before 9am, and something happens to cause a memorable day. Or just before 9pm, and the first sign that the evening isn’t going as planned.

Maybe it’s a flash of realisation, a spur-of-the-moment decision, a change in the weather, a meeting/ visitor, or a mysterious/ tragic/ delightful event. Anything from a parcel arriving to an attack by aliens!

It can be prose or poetry in any style or genre – whatever suits your subject and your preferred writing style.

If you still can’t think of anything, don’t drag out a piece you wrote three years ago that will do if you add “Just before nine o’clock,” at the beginning. The idea is to prompt you to feel excited and inspired to create some new writing, and definitely not to make you feel stressed because you haven’t dutifully ‘done your homework’!

Try writing a description of this mouse, or a poem about why mice have pink toes, or a letter complaining that this blog is infested with mice.

Just write something new. On any subject.

And we’re quite happy if you come to the meeting and say, “My novel was going so well I didn’t have time for the assignment,” or “I decided to write a funny poem about cucumbers instead!”