childhood

PROMPT: A WHISPER HEARD IN CHILDHOOD

January 27, 2020

The prompt for today’s meeting is: A Whisper Heard in Childhood

TASTE OF CHILDHOOD

The following was submitted by Writers in the Grove member, Mary Jane Nordgren.
It was in response to the prompt, “A taste, a touch, or a smell from childhood“.

taste of childhood

grandma was a lady, precise, particular

her dining room table manner formal

but at her green-patterned, formica kitchen table

sis and I got to dig into root beer floats

and slurp every last quarter-inch of sweet-bubbled foam

PROMPT: 50 WORD STORY — OR — …FROM CHILDHOOD

July 29, 2019

There were two prompt options for the group meeting:

Write a 50 word story

A taste , a touch, or a smell from childhood

PROMPT: A CHILDHOOD MEMORY …

The prompt for today is:

Write about a childhood memory set in summer and an event or experience that taught you something you didn’t necessarily want to learn.

Prompt-a-Month: Favorite Toy

The June prompt-a-month for our Writers in the Grove members is:

Describe a favorite toy from your childhood.

Writers in the Grove members may hand in their submissions during the workshops or use our members only submission form. Check out the guidelines and instructions for submissions in the announcement.

PROMPT: SOMETHING FROM YOUR CHILDHOOD

There was a second prompt given in this week’s meeting: Something From Your Childhood.

Prompt-a-Month: Children’s Table

The April prompt-a-month for our Writers in the Grove members is:

Did you sit at the children’s table?

Writers in the Grove members may hand in their submissions during the workshops or use our members only submission form. Check out the guidelines and instructions for submissions in the announcement.

Prompt: Lonely Monsters

The prompt this week came from Kirsten Baggins:

Monsters are inherently lonely characters, often seeking out some form of friendship, only to be rejected, mostly on the basis on their appearance. It’s the part about them that touches our hearts, and makes us feel for them, seeing them without a companion, and with that, I ask this: If you were friends with a monster, what would you do with them? How would you spend your day with them? It could be any monster of your choosing-the monster in your closet or beneath your bed, a werewolf, a vampire, a reanimated corpse, a mummy, a ghost, anything at all! Just what would you do with your monstrous friend?

Prompt: Freedom Across the Ages

Independence Day is fast approaching. We look at freedom in very different ways. Looking at freedom at different ages is also a unique perspective.

The prompt this week is to pick an age, five, ten, fifteen, twenty, forty, sixty, and describe what freedom felt like to you (or a character) at each age. Pick at least one and make it into a story, or use all of them to describe your experience of freedom.

November 21 Prompt – Leaving Home

The following prompt is a part of our Prompt-a-Day project to support NaNoWriMo during November 2015. Each prompt was generously donated by our Writers in the Grove members. You are welcome to take this prompt in any direction you wish.