The next in our website series – writing prompts, contributed by Committee member Lesley Traynor: No-one was there to grab my hand and another wave crashed over me. Who should have been there? Who is the protagonist? How did they get there? What happened next?
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November Writing Prompt
The next in our website series – writing prompts, contributed by Committee member Lesley Traynor: The number 10 bus was heaving when he got on the bus… Who was he? Where was he going? Did he actually get there? Was this just a commuter bus or was it packed for some other reason? What happenedContinue reading “November Writing Prompt”
October Writing Prompt
After a summer break, the next in our website series – writing prompts, contributed by Committee member Lesley Traynor: Beach holidays are over-rated….
Olga Wojtas on short stories
The FWS Scriever Olga Wojtas has kindly made the notes she used for the May 3rd workshop in Dundee available to us. So here they are! Using Real Life As A Short Story Prompt Basing a short story on your own experience can be tricky, because you tend to be over-influenced by what actually happened.Continue reading “Olga Wojtas on short stories”
July Writing Prompt
The next in our website series – writing prompts, contributed by Committee member Lesley Traynor: The intruder stopped before the child’s cot….
June writing prompt
The next in our website series – writing prompts, contributed by Committee member Lesley Traynor: SHOES walk a mile in whose shoes? boots, stilettos, sandals, baby shoes? new and expensive, worn and shabby, pinching the feet or really comfortable? walking shoes, dancing shoes, work shoes, trainers? throwing shoes..and who at? that one shoe on theContinue reading “June writing prompt”
May writing prompt
The next in our website series – writing prompts, contributed by Committee member Lesley Traynor: Red Riding Hood’s mother charged for allowing her young daughter to walk in the woods alone. Jack’s mother arraigned by the local council for a beanstalk without planning permission.
April Writing Prompt
The next in our website series – writing prompts, contributed by Committee member Lesley Traynor: Here are my desert island discs… But how did you come to be on a desert island? Will you build a raft? Or is someone going to rescue you?
March Writing Prompt
The next in our website series – writing prompts, contributed by Committee member Lesley Traynor: I never meant to return here…. where is here? why did you leave? why did you intend to leave for good? why do you have to come back?
February’s writing prompt..
The second in our website series – writing prompts, contributed by Committee member Lesley Traynor: That moment when you know you are not far from home. Where have you been? Why? How long and hard was the journey? Are you glad to be back? Sad? Scared? Who will be there?
