word prompts
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Your new prompt word this week is BRIDGE The first meaning that often comes to mind when thinking about this week’s prompt is a bridge over a passage of water, or a steep drop, for example. But of course it has multiple meanings – there is a card game called bridge, it’s part of a…
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Your prompt word this week is EXERCISE There are all sorts of physical exercises we can undertake: running, going to the gym, yoga, Pilates, football, etc. We can also undertake mental exercises in the form of crosswords and word searches. There are written exercises and who remembers those exercises books from our school days? It’s…
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Your prompt word is FIRE I gave this week’s prompt word to a writing group on Monday and it brought out some fantastic work. It’s a word that’s current, with the intense heat causing lots of awful fires around the world. But it’s a word that can have a positive meaning – think about cosying…
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As with the other challenges this week, you have two weeks until the next one, so plenty of time to work on your stories. So, can you tell a story in 75 words using the following words in it somewhere: The previous challenge was to write a story in 51 words using the following five…
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For this week’s prompt word, you have two weeks as I’m away teaching at Swanwick Writers’ Summer School. Your new prompt word is TEST I’ve never liked tests – especially those we had at school. I remember written tests in all sorts of subjects and oral tests for German and French. And, of course, there…
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Here’s your new story challenge: Can you tell a story in 51 words using the following words in it somewhere: The previous challenge was to write a story in 77 words using the following eight words in it somewhere: Here are your hilarious stories: Nicola Daly: The lycra-clad coyote carefully read his sports therapist’s instructions…
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Your prompt word this week is FIGURE This week’s word has so many possibilities – we talk about pear-shaped figures and apple-shaped figures, for example. We figure things out – or try to. A figure can be a symbol or a number. There are central figures and key figures in relation to important people. What…
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Here’s a new story challenge for you: Can you tell a story in 77 words using the following words in it somewhere: The previous challenge was to write a story in 44 words using the following four words in it somewhere: Here are your delightful stories: Nicola Daly: The bear poured himself some wine with…
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Your prompt word this week is LABEL My mind settled on this week’s prompt word when I was cutting out an uncomfortable label from a top. It kept digging in. The labels seem to be getting longer as there’s more information companies are required to add. But there are all sorts of labels – we…
Esther Chilton 