Williamsburg Creative Writing Group

Prompts for the week of February 14th, 2013

Prompt
This week is all about love. Using one or more of the following prompts, create a short story about love.
Love is a many splendored thing
Love waits
When you love someone
True love only knocks once
The many ways of love
Love me, love my———
What is love
FIVE WORDs
Create a short story using these five words:
Hearts, flowers, candy, kisses, teddy bear
HAVE FUN!
Remember to work on our continuing stories
The Williamsburg Creative Writing Group meets every Thursday at 10:30am. Pleas join us.

Williamsburg Creative Writing Group

Prompts for the week of February 7th, 2013

Prompt
This week we will work a little on character development. I will give you several people to choose from. Take one or more and develop them into characters in your short story. Remember to let your words tell us who they are.
Sixty year old woman
Man of any age with a slight limp
Teenager male or female
Married woman without children
Married woman with children
Their male counterparts
Single woman in her thirties
Ex: She was tall and dressed exquisitely. She has owned the company for many years and still commands respect each time she enters a room. Given her age it’s amazing to watch her walk across the floor on her six inch heels. Her perfectly quaffed hair doesn’t move and her alabaster skin only enhances her features. Mary Jane has just turned sixty and took over the company shortly after her parents were killed in a plane crash. She was only twenty then. Etc. etc.

FIVE WORDs
Create a short story using these five words:
Dumpster, avenue, rocking chair, prescription, antelope
Have Fun!
The Williamsburg Creative Writing Group meets every Thursday at 10:30am. Please join us!

Williamsburg Creative Writing Group

Prompts for the week of January 31st, 2013

Prompt
Create a short story from one or more of following prompts.
The hassle of being charitable
She was such a graceful hostess
He was the perfect age
The candlelight is even better
Now I call that positive

FIVE WORDs
Create a short story using these five words:
Mastering, eternity, protection, fashion, goose
HAVE FUN!
The Williamsburg Creative Group meets at the Williamsburg Branch every Thursday at 10:30am. Please join us!

Williamsburg Creative Writing Group

Prompts for the week of January 24th 2013

Prompt
Work on the continuing story writing at least a page or so. Here are the prompts for the week.
The good dog with the bad boy
Mary is all about being classy she
When the sin is too great
The flowers are still in the window
FIVE WORDS
Create a short story using these five words:
Insulation, expression, music, information, goat
HAVE FUN!
The Williamsburg Creative Writing Group meets on Thursdays at 10:30am. Please join us.

Willliamsburg Creative Writing Group

Prompts for the week of January 17th, 2013

Prompt
Now that the holidays are over and the New Year has begun, let’s have some fun. This week I want you to begin a story. It doesn’t need to be very a long but at least a page. Then we will pass them to another person so they may add to the story. We will continue this until all of the stories are complete so it may take several weeks. In the meantime I will continue to give out prompts that will be in addition to this ongoing story. This week’s prompts are:
The red devil and his sweet Lula Mae
Mary had a what?
I would if I could, but if I couldn’t then what?
How many days will it take?
FIVE WORDs
Create a short story using these five words:
Flaming, recommendation, steward, brother, parakeet
HAVE FUN!
The Williamsburg Creative Writing Group meets every Thurs. at 10:30am. Please join us!

Williamsburg Creative Writing Group

Prompts for the week of January 10th, 2013

Prompt
Create a story out of the New Year. Choose from one or more of the following and let your creative juices flow. Have fun!!!
What will this New Year do for me?
What will I accomplish in this New Year?
It was the best year of my life
When I think back it really wasn’t that bad
The year of all years was
Boy was I glad that year ended
I can’t wait to see what’s ahead in this New Year

FIVE WORDs
Create a short story using these five words:
Endeavor, climate, patronage, security, frog
HAVE FUN!

Williamsburg Creative Writing Group

Prompts for the week of December 27th, 2012

Prompt
Create a story from one or more of the following Christmas Songs.
Let it snow
Away in a manger
Jingle bells
White Christmas
Oh Christmas tree
Rock-n around the Christmas tree
FIVE WORDS
Create a short story using these five words:
Garland, hovering, garb, sandals, camel
HAVE FUN!
The Williamsburg Creative Writing Group meets every Thursday at 10:30am. Please join us!

Amelia Writer’s Group – December 11, 2012

The next meeting of the Amelia Writer’s Group will be on December 11th at 6:00 p.m.

During the November meeting Brooks Rexroat talked about writing motivation and inspiration.  You can see his presentation on his website - http://brooksrexroat.com/  under academic presentations.

Also, check out the new INK TANK/ reading series.  Founded by Mr. Rexroat, this series The series, is free and open to the public at the the 1215 Wine Bar and Coffee Lab on Vine Street..  The series will  include established featured authors from around the Midwest region and emerging writers from Cincinnati. For more information, you can go to the webiste – https://www.facebook.com/InkTankReadingSeries.

 

Try these writing prompts for December.

 

1.  Describe a special Christmas morning.

2.  Play out the life story of a little boy crying at the top of his lungs because his mother won’t buy him a plastic fireman’s hat.

3.  Write about the only time you hosted Thanksgiving—and how it went so terribly wrong. Start with the line, “For my first Thanksgiving as host, I bought the biggest turkey they had in the store,” and end your story with “And that’s why we all ate hamburgers.

Five Words – black friday, smoke, local deli, presents, motorcycle

 

Amelia Writer’s Group October 9, 2012

The Amelia Writer’s Group will meet on October 9 at 6:00 p.m. in the Amelia library meeting room.

If you wish to share your writing please allow 15 minutes for reading and 5 minutes for feedback.  Please bring copies to share.

Prompts -

1.  A guy just shows up at your front door.  Write about what happens once you look through your peephole and see him.  Start your writing with – “If you know what’s good for you”.

2.  When the ball hit you in the head, you were knocked out cold for ten minutes.  During that time, you had what you can best describe as the weirdest dream of your life.  Describe that dream with as many details as you can remember.

3.  Write a story of a little boy crying at the top of his lungs because his mother won’t buy him a plastic fireman’s hat.

Five words – Use these five words in a story -

barefoot, vending machine, wings, dumpster, fog

 

Amelia Library Writers Group September 11, 2012

Join us for Amelia Library’s writers group on Tuesday, September 11, 2012  at 6:00 p.m.   There are some fun activities coming up in the next few months for writers so be sure to come to learn all about them.

We will have a speaker at our meeting who has self published.  He will talk to the group about his experiences and share some tips and techniques that worked for him.

 

If you have writing to share, please bring copies.

Prompts for September 11, 2012

I want to try something a little different for prompts this month:

Start your story with this phrase:   I am still looking for the silver lining.

    1. Story setting:  on a veranda
    2. Include these words in your story:  debris, nun, cheer, zipper

 

  1. Start your story with this phrase:  The last time it snowed
    1. Story setting:  in a village
    2. Include these  words in your story:  global, native, granny smith apple, Germany

 

  1. Start your story with this phrase:  Looking out the window
    1. Story setting:  at a tea room
    2. Include these words in your story:  cloudy, United States, lava, oregano

 

  1. Start your story with this phrase:  With legs like
    1. Story setting:  at breakfast
    2. Include these words in your story:  inflated mastodon, reverse strike

 

  1. You’re on a top-secret spy mission—for your grandmother. She can’t make it to her Monday Night Bingo (you tell us why), but she’s certain that one of the regulars is cheating, and she sends you to check it out. Conduct a covert operation to catch this cheater in the act.