Prompt 42 ~ mood

Have a look at / listen to these videos.  Settle into their moods.  Write from whatever inspires you, however big or small.

Murmuration

At the Hop

The Ship Song


It there's anyone out there still with us and if you fancy playing along and want to share what you've written, please leave a link to your post in the comments below and we'll come over and read you.  Promise.  

Prompt 41 - book titles

As I'm sitting typing, I look up at the shelf of cookery books above the computer.

"Book of Soups", "Falling cloudberries", "Indian Food", "Grandmother's Herbs", "Farmhouse Kitchen", "Native British Trees", "Wild Food Yearbook", "Self Sufficiency", "Herbs on the Table", "My Orchard", "Through the Kitchen Window", "A Field Guide to the Birds of Britain"...  there are lots more, obviously they're not all cookery books.

I wonder which I would choose as the title for a piece of writing. Or would I prefer another title, from one of the other bookcases around the house.

Have a look through your bookcase, try not to be influenced by the content of the book. Which title most inspires you? Jot down a few of them, then settle down to play with your ideas.


As ever, I you feel like sharing, you're more than welcome!


p.s. - Sorry I'm a day late!

Prompt 40 ~ Dark & Light

Take a sheet of paper and make two lists.  One entitled 'dark' and the other 'light.'  Give yourself 5 minutes to write down whatever comes to mind for each one.

When 5 minutes is up, stop.  Pick something(s) from each list and write.  

Prompt 39 - Senses

Senses. Five of them. More, you might argue. For this prompt, I'm just going with the first five (sight, hearing, touch, smell, taste). ...Choose one of them, just one. And let it be your companion for the day. Or for a few days. Try to be extra-aware of that sense. Try to take note of what it notices throughout your day/night. If you like, make a list of these things.

When you're satisfied that you really have noticed that sense more than before, have really noticed what it's detecting and feeding to your brain, thank it most kindly and then pick up your pen. Your piece of writing should try to incorporate that sense, whether as a character, or as the basis for most of the descriptions given.

If you decide to try out this prompt, why not share it on your blog? We would be more excited than you could possibly imagine (honest!) to find out who is playing along with 26n, and what they're writing. Go on, we're friendly - honest! :)

Prompt 38 ~ Sleep

This week's prompt is sleep.  And here are some quotes to get your imagination going...

I want to tell you a terrific story about oral contraception. I asked this girl to sleep with me and she said 'No.'
- Woody Allen

I love sleep. My life has the tendency to fall apart when I'm awake, you know?
- Ernest Hemingway

A mother's arms are made of tenderness and children sleep soundly in them.
- Victor Hugo

There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him to sleep.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson 
Marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who can't sleep with the window shut, and a woman who can't sleep with the window open.
- George Bernard Shaw

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Ok, now go do your thing!  Poetic prose, pulsating poetry, incandescent free writing, writing in your sleep...pick your poison.

As ever, if you'd like to share, post a link to your writing in the comments below and we'll come over and read it.

Have a good week my pretties...

(Apologies for the weird font size - it's not me, it's blogger)

Prompt 37 - starting from a song

Music has a way of gnawing into our souls at times, at least it does with me, quite often. Think of your favourite songs, those lines that make you think, “wow....so few words, but really well said...” Take one such line, and use it as the first line for a poem or story. Try to be sure that your poem/story is not overly influenced by the song. Make that line your starting point, allow it to take you off in your own direction, the one that you feel inside whenever you hear that line. See where it takes you.

If you want to share what you've written, let us know.

Prompt 36 ~ Cut up a poem

Take a poem or two and print or photocopy them onto separate sheets of paper.  Cut out at least half of the words from each poem.  Then, either swap some of the words around from each poem or take words and put them together to make a new one, or two or three.

If you’d like to share what you’ve come up with, however rough or polished, post it on your blog and leave a comment below with your post's url.  At least one of us will come over and read it.  Honestly, we will.