The prompt for this week’s Monday Writers in the Grove Workshop was:
The purple flounder belched and within minutes…
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The prompt for this week’s Monday Writers in the Grove Workshop was:
A sign to nowhere, specifically a sign to a town that no longer exists.
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The prompt for this week’s Monday Writers in the Grove Workshop was:
Bystanders are sometimes more than passive, they can be perpetrators, people who inject themselves into the story. Write a short piece on how a bystander moves from outside of the event to inside.
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The prompt this week was:
If you only had two or three tools, what would they be, and how would you use them?
Put yourself or a character in a situation where they are restricted to using two or three tools. Describe the situation, the tools, their handling of the tools, what they are working on, putting emphasis upon the tools themselves.
The prompt today focuses on character development.
Put yourself into a character and isolate the characters in and around you from your character.
What would you do if you had no resources?
Put your character at risk.
Make yourself feel like a stranger.
The prompt this week was:
What my pet or an animal taught me.
Have you learned a life lesson from your pets or from an encounter with an animal?
Maybe this isn’t about a personal story but an encounter with a pet or animal for another character. What happened? What was the response of the character and the animal? What did they learn?
As part of the preparations for the Centennial Celebration of the birth of William Stafford, our prompt was:
Write like William Stafford.
You may read selected poems by William Stafford from the William Stafford Poetry preserved by the Friends of William Stafford to assist you with this prompt.
We’ve also put together a post with more information on William Stafford and his work.
The prompt is to write about something you know by heart.
Look deep. Peel off the layers. What do you know down to your soul or toes or whatever metaphor you wish.
You may write a personal story or use characters to demonstrate something they know by heart.
The prompt involves writing with verbs only to describe a scene.
The prompt this week was a fun one.
Doodle with words.
The goal of the exercise was to break through writer’s block. Taking a blank piece of paper, write a word. Write another word attached or near it. Play with the way you write the word. Maybe draw a picture next to the word. No rules, just keep adding words one by one and see where they take you. When you are ready, start writing.
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