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Writing Prompts for the Creative Scribe

Sorry for the radio silence!

A short summary of non-writing life: We bought an amazing new house. It's a listed country house, built in the 1500's, and it needs some huge amounts of work. However, it does have a library with the most incredible 1920's style wallpaper. It also comes with land (hurrah!) so the horse I promised not to mention on this blog is coming home to live, which is basically all my childhood dreams right there.

A short summary of writing life: I handed in my assignments, got my grades back and was thrilled with the feedback for the farming/immigration piece I'm writing. I can't share it as I write as I'm submitting chunks of it for future assessment, but will share a piece I have already submitted.

On to the title of this post: I found a sweet little notebook in TK Maxx (their stationery section is my downfall) entitled Writing Prompts for the Creative Scribe. Inside, each page has a little subject to write about. Some are more thought-prokoving than others, but all are good reason to make youself sit down and write. I plan to share a few of the prompts, and my responses, with you. Of course you can then steal them yourselves. I'd love to hear your answers too.

A few example prompts:
  • Write about the sounds of night.
  • If your day today had a theme song, what would it be and why?
  • Write about something bad - war, fear, pain or hate - but find the beauty in it. 
  • Write about a meeting you have with a character from your favourite book.
  • "Attitude is everything." Agree or disagee. 
 


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