Fwd: Writing Prompt - Baddies all around us

What makes a "baddie" work? what elements and characteristics are there about your favourite bad characters that hold your interest?

I invite you to watch a programme or read a book, taking particular interest in any baddies (or those disguised as such) and then disect how they are constructed. 

Don't just think about it in your head, put pen to paper and disect consciously, working on this if necessary over a couple of sessions.

and then make up your own baddie - you have the ingredients now !!

Shani Phethean Hubble
www.writinginthemargins.co.uk

 

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Fwd: Writing Prompt

Well last week sort of raced past in a blurr of excuses, exams, racing up and down motorways and generally trying to get back into the "real world" - whatever and wherever that might be. 

Today's prompt is:-

"One can survive on hope... one needs hope to survive - to exist"

write on a positive and upbeat note - if you can't think of anything obvious, just keep writing the phrase until your subconscious mind takes over. 

Shani

 

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Writing Prompts

Hi - I am back... wild week, where I have had a double whammy, not only have we been moving Toby down to Cullompton, but moving my desk in the office.

Now the former you might understand and sympathise with the logistics, but you might wonder quite why I have been so traumatised by movement of my location within the office.

I could find nothing when I arrived back in on Monday - the last time I had see such total devastation it was on the news and had had a tornado listing...

So I have spent the week clearing up and am in a quiet place of contentment, so was quite staggared that others aren't also in the place of calm... one person in partcular could only be described as "Riven with Resentment"

So I give this to you today as a prompt - write about being Riven with Resentment...

Right firstly in a first person, then move on to successive paragraphs and changing of points of view... does this subtly alter your writing? different views of the same room?

I would be interested to read your work.

Best wishes one and all.
Shani

Shani Phethean Hubble
http://www.writinginthemargins.co.uk/

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Poem...

(this needs a really warmly coloured picture with happy children going to bed…)

 

 

Bedtime

 

Inside cozy,  outside snowing

Children from their bathtime glowing

In their bedclothes now they're going

Up the stairs,  they're happy,  knowing

It's time to have a story.

 

Kings and castles,  storms and lightening

Trolls and ghouls and monsters frightening!

Eyes are wide and faces whitening

'Til kiss or promise makes things right again

Happy endings for me!

 

 

 

(hope it's ok just to post random scribblings and would love to get any feedback good or bad  C:   -    Pete)

Apologies...

This ranked as one of the best excuses I have ever heard for not turning up to a writing group - so suggested it was posted here :-)

Hi Shani…

sorry but I'm not going to be able to get to the meeting this Thursday. Put it this way, as you're all arriving I shall be shooting down Wedmore Vale on my bike (trying to set off the 30mph sign as I go) then, as you're all discussing stuff over your tea and biscuits I shall be on a train – total transformation from frenetic cyclist to totally still observer of people, traffic, windows….

As you get to your break I shall be sat on a seat 6ft in the air travelling approximately 56mph and somewhere about Monmouthshire. This is fun for me and earns me a livelihood – but it means I miss out on CedarWriters and that's not good.

Please convey my apologies to poetical Roy, intriguing Leslie, James the actor, bright bright Elaine, Tracey with an 'e' (or am I wrong there?!), historical Pat, ever opening Jackie and the awesomely artistic Sarah. Oh and anybody else I've not yet met.

Hi to you too Shani (but you already knew that cos this e-mail was originally sent to you…!

Pete

(I shall be back… though not in the Terminator sense….!!)

Where could you go at 3.30 in the Morning?

I am sat here, on a delightful sunday morning - at the computer (obviously !!).

My stomach tied up in knots, full of excitement for our son during the coming week (he has finally got funding for a Brain Injury Rehab Placement - not without considerable conflict in the last week or so !!) and I am stressed because I have run out of paper to print out the worksheets for tomorrow's meeting of Great Western Writers (nudge here if you have forgotten !!).

We were woken at 3.30 this morning by a young neighbour who needed a kind ear. Instead of being fraught by this, I am reflecting this morning about how proud I am that he knew he could come here and tell us his grief without fear of censure.

I am not reflecting with a big ego - "hey ho look at me, aren't I wonderful".

I am thinking about I am not sure where I could go at 3.30 in the morning and feel welcome.

So that is the prompt today....

Where could you, or your character go at 3.30 in the morning... what did they do? what did they say?

Shani

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Elaine - Ice

The meditation theme tonight was about ice and flames. We each took from it what we wanted to relate to.

All of us free wrote at length, and Elaine has kindly shared with us her piece of well-observed characters...