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

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

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. Prompt 2: Describe the scene or write about who lives here. Prompt 3: Describe the scene or write about one aspect of the picture.

The Procrastinators’ Weekly Writing Prompts: Pen Names

Dear Procrastinators and Friends! This week, our theme was ‘Pen Names’, pseudonyms, noms de plume, aliases, allonyms, the lot. Prompt 1: Would you ever use a pen name? Why? Why not? Discuss. Perhaps you’ve already thought about a pen name or have one. How did you go about ‘finding’ your pen name? Why could you

The Procrastinators’ Weekly Writing Prompts: Wild

Dear Procrastinators and Friends! This week, we didn’t hold our Sunday meeting. Instead, some of our members went to the StAnza Poetry Festival in St Andrews. Here are a few prompts inspired by our visit. Prompt 1: Wild The festival’s theme this year was ‘Wild: forms of resistance’. Use these words as inspiration for a

The Procrastinators’ Weekly Writing Prompts: Song

Dear Procrastinators and Friends! Here are the prompts from our Sunday meeting. This week, we were writing about songs. Prompt 1: Use the word ‘song’ as prompt for a free write. The song of birds, the song of sirens, the song of the sea, any song you can think of. Prompt 2: Take the title