Category: Prompts

Writing Prompt 9/14/13

A favorite standard CWC writing prompt for your Saturday. Use the following 8 words in any order and in any declension in a piece of no more than 80 words total.
Post to the CWC Facebook page or Google+ page for all of our friends to see, if you choose. You can find those links along the side bar.
Have fun!

1) pickaxe. 2) raccoon. 3) vision. 4) couch. 5) veranda. 6) charism. 7) aspirin. 8) teacup.

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Writing Prompt 9/12/13

What kind of weekend writing project will you undertake over the next few days? Is there something you can plan as a family — a weekend writers’ retreat of a few hours on Saturday and Sunday? If you don’t have family living under the same retreat house roof, could you pair up with a buddy for a collaborative writing project? Stuck for a topic? You can always start out writing about the weather.

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Writing Prompt 9/2/13

Happy Labor Day!

The second I became a writer at age five (my first job), I was already working for myself. What kinds of jobs have you had over your lifetime? What was your first job? What is your present job? What is a job you wish you had instead of the one you have now? Is work really labor? What is labor? Who labors and who works?
So many questions! Perhaps you can carve out some time today to think about them and write about your loves and labors.

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Writing Prompt 8/30/13

Where did the summer go? Write a piece of any length to describe its vignettes and choose from at least five of the following highlights:

1) best garden haul and resulting dishes/ canning/ or baking;
2) best moments with the kids on a trip or at home;
3) worst argument w spouse or friend over something really unbelievably stupid (of course not stupid at the time);
4) a new summer friend you made in person or on line;
5) best day trip (hike, river, ocean, new town);
6) best longer trip (in laws?);
7) new music you discovered;
8) bad news or good news or disappointing news received or delivered;
9) a planned or unplanned major household, auto, or health expense;
10) and the bottom line: the most beautiful moment of your Summer 2013.

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