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,

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. Prompt 3: Start

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

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: 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

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

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