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The Procrastinators’ Weekly Writing Prompts: Journalling

Dear Procrastinators and Friends!

Here are the prompts we used during our weekly writing session.

Prompt 1: ‘My colour today is…’ – Continue the sentence. Go into as much detail as possible about what your colour today is.

Prompt 2: Pick an element and write from the point of view of the element. Earth, Water, Fire, Air – the choice is yours. Tell us something about how life feels from the perspective of ‘your’ element.

Prompt 3: ‘Summer is…’ or ‘My summer is…’ Continue the sentence.

Prompt 4: Five word challenge. Write a poem or piece of prose including all of the five words:

Experience
Rain
Finished
Breaking
Invisible

If one of our prompts inspires a piece of your writing, please leave a link to your blog in the comment section below.

We publish new creative writing prompts every Sunday after our online meeting. Thanks for stopping by!

Enjoy your writing, and, until next time

Britta

The Procrastinators’ Weekly Writing Prompts: Steampunk/Time Travel

Dear Procrastinators and Friends!

Here are the prompts from this week’s meeting. Theme: Steampunk/Time Travel… what could possibly go wrong?

Prompt 1: Use one of the images as prompt for a freewrite. Alternatively, write on the theme of time travel.

Prompt 2: Picture prompt. Use the images as prompt for your writing.

Photo by Antonio Friedemann on Pexels.com

Prompt 3: Start a story with the sentence ‘They arranged to meet in front of door number 303’.

Prompt 4: Five word challenge. Write a story or poem including all of the following words.

Time
Rambunctious
Island
Rescue
Strain

If one of your prompts inspires a piece of your writing, please leave a link to your post in the comment section below.

We publish new creative writing prompts every Sunday after our online writing session.

Thanks for stopping by!

Enjoy your writing, and until next time

Britta Benson

The Procrastinators’ Weekly Writing Prompts: Fantasy

Dear Procrastinators and Friends!

Here are the prompts we used during this week’s online writing session. Theme: Fantasy.

Prompt 1: What’s your favourite fantastical beast or creature? Fairy, dragon, unicorn, etc. – Pick your favourite and then, discuss!

Prompt 2: Look at the picture. Who lives here?

Prompt 3: Enter another world. Pick one of the images and write about what you can see.

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Prompt 4: Five world challenge. Write a poem or story including all of the following words:

your favourite fantasy creature (fairy, dragon, unicorn, etc.)
teapot
keyhole
dictionary
map

If one of our prompts inspires a piece of your writing, please leave a link to your blog in the comment section below!

We publish new creative writing prompts every Sunday after our online meeting. Thanks for stopping by!

Enjoy your writing, and until next time

Britta Benson

The Procrastinators’ Weekly Writing Prompts: Crime

Dear Procrastinators and Friends!

Here are the prompts we used during our weekly online meeting. Theme this time: Crime.

Prompt 1: Use the words crime/mystery/murder as prompt for a free write.

Prompt 2: Use one of these titles from the library’s crime section as prompt.

The winter garden
The beating of his wings
Children of Memory
Bay of Sighs

Prompt 3: Another round of ‘Pick a title and run with it’.

You are next
Broken Homes
Seventeen
A House of Ghosts

Prompt 4: Our weekly five word challenge, this time with a twist. Pick one or more (all???) of the following titles of Sherlock Homes cases as prompt for your writing.

The empty house
The dancing men
The Greek interpreter
The valley of fear
The five orange pips

If one of our prompts inspires a piece of your writing, please leave a link in the comment box below.

We publish new creative writing prompts every Sunday after our online meeting. Thanks for stopping by!

Enjoy your writing, and, until next time

Britta Benson

The Procrastinators’ Weekly Writing Prompts: Billboards

Dear Procrastinators and Friends!

Today, we used advertising posters I saw on a walk as prompts.

Prompt 1: Dreamer.

Use the image as inspiration for your writing.

Prompt 2: ‘I was in the tide, the tide was in me’

Prompt 3: Eden, or: Five Seconds of Summer.

Use a name from the ‘Eden’ poster and then a word from the ‘Five Seconds of Summer’ one and see where that takes you.

Prompt 4: Five Word Challenge

Write a poem or piece of prose including all of the following words:

Inspector
identical
insignificant
island
impulse

You can also use this poster as inspiration:

If one of our prompts inspire a piece of your writing, please leave a link to your blog in the comment box below.

We publish new creative writing prompts every Sunday after our online meeting. Thanks for stopping by.

Enjoy your writing, and, until next time

Britta Benson

The Procrastinators’ Weekly Writing Prompts: Angels

Dear Procrastinators and Friends!

Here are the prompts we used during our Sunday writing session. Theme this week: Angels.

Prompt 1: Use the word ‘Angel’ for a freewrite and jot down whatever comes to mind.

Picture credit: Britta Benson. Wings, seen on a wall in Dover, April 2023

Prompt 2: Angels with…

Fill in the blank: Angels with…

Or: Write about a bar called ‘Angels with Bagpipes’. Seems a little random? That place really exists in Edinburgh!

Picture credit: Britta Benson. Angels with Bagpipes. Seen in Edinburgh, April 2023.

Prompt 3: Angels and…

Again, fill in the blank: Angels and…

You could go for ‘Angels and Demons’ or perhaps, something more interesting. In case you can’t think of anything, use the photograph as inspiration for your writing.

Picture credit: Britta Benson. Seen in Glasgow, April 2023. Somehow I feel this suits the Angels theme…

Prompt 4: Five word challenge

Write a poem or piece of prose including all of the following words:

Angel
average
abandon
age
ask

If our prompts inspire a piece of your writing, please leave a link to your blog in the comment box below.

We publish new creative writing prompts every Sunday after our online meeting. Thanks for stopping by!

Enjoy your writing, and, until next time

Britta Benson

The Procrastinators’ Weekly Writing Prompts: A little inspiration from the bard

Dear Procrastinators and Friends!

Here are the prompts we used during our weekly writing session on Zoom. Since it’s the Bard’s birthday today (or presumably so, nobody knows for sure), all of our prompts are inspired by William Shakespeare.

Picture credit: Britta Benson. The Globe Theatre, London.

Prompt 1: People usual put Shakespeare’s plays in one of the following categories: Comedy, Tragedy, History and Problem Play.

If you had to describe your life, would it be a comedy, a tragedy, a history or a ‘problem play’?

Prompt 2: What’s in a name? Write a story about someone with a name from a Shakespeare play. Here are a few examples: Hamlet, Miranda, Prospero, Ophelia, Macbeth, Viola, Ariel. Then, use the title of a Shakespeare play as prompt. Examples: A Midsummer Night’s Dream, The Winter’s Tale, All’s Well that Ends Well, Much Ado about Nothing, The Tempest, Twelfth Night.

Prompt 3: Use one of the following Shakespeare quotes as prompt.

‘Let me be that I am and seek not to alter me’ (Much Ado about Nothing)
‘Love is merely madness’ (As you like it)
‘I am one who loved not wisely but too well’ (Othello)

Prompt 4: Five Word Challenge. Write a poem or piece of prose including all of the following words:

The Globe
actor
ticket
stage
dream

If one of our prompts inspires a piece of your writing, please put a link in the description box below.

We publish new creative writing prompts every Sunday after our group’s online meeting. Thanks for stopping by!

Enjoy your writing, and, until next time

Britta Benson

The Procrastinators’ Weekly Writing Prompts: Travel

Dear Procrastinators and Friends!

Here are the prompts we used during our weekly online meeting today. Theme: Travel.

Prompt 1: Use the words ‘travel’ and ‘journey’ for a freewrite. Do you like/love to travel? What is your favourite way to travel? Trains, planes and automobiles… or perhaps a ferry?

Prompt 2: Write about travel/a journey and the colour yellow.

Prompt 3: Write about travel/a journey and the colour blue.

Prompt 4: Five word challenge. Write a poem or piece of prose including all of the following words.

Travel/Journey
Pick a season
Pick an element (earth, fire, water, air)
impossible
Restless

If our prompts inspire a piece of your writing, please leave a link in the comment box below.

We publish new creative writing prompts every Sunday after our meeting. Thanks for stopping by!

Until next time, and, enjoy your writing

Britta Benson

The Procrastinators’ Weekly Writing Prompts: Food

Dear Procrastinators and Friends!

This week, our theme was ‘Food’ with a twist. We hope you enjoy the prompts from our online meeting.

Prompt 1: Write a story or poem about a food that speaks to the person eating it. Maybe this advertisement for fresh asparagus inspires you.

Here’s another picture, this time of a potato that seems quite keen on being eaten.

Prompt 2: Write about your favourite fruit, including all senses.

Prompt 3: Here’s something I saw in Glasgow. Will this ‘Pizza Machine’ inspire a story?

Prompt 4: Five word challenge. Write a poem or story including all of the following words:

Your favourite childhood sweet
incredible
disagree
wood
change

If one of our prompts inspire a piece of your writing, please leave a link in the comment box below.

We publish new creative writing prompts every Sunday after our Zoom meeting. Thanks for stopping by!

Enjoy your writing, and, until next time!

Britta Benson

The Procrastinators’ Weekly Writing Prompts: Say what you see

Dear Procrastinators and Friends!

This week, Gail Henderson provided the prompts for our online meeting. Theme: Say what you see.

Prompt 1: Describe the scene or write about who lives here.

Artwork and picture credit: Gail Henderson

Prompt 2: Describe the scene or write about who lives here.

Prompt 3: Describe the scene or write about one aspect of the picture.

Prompt 4: Five Word Challenge. Write a poem or story, including all of the following words.

Text
Material
Frame
Prisoner
Colour

If you use one of our prompts, please leave a link to your post in the comment section below.

We publish new creative writing prompts every Sunday after our Zoom meeting. Thanks for stopping by!

Enjoy your writing, and, until next time

Gail Henderson/Britta Benson