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Prompts for the week of October 25th, 2012

Prompt
In honor of Halloween, let’s create a story using candy as our prompts. Using one or more of the following prompts, give us your best Halloween story. It can be fun or scary, you decide. Always remember to make us see it, as though we were there and to feel it as though we were touching it. Describe any smells that might be lingering on the moonless night. Have fun.
Candy corn popcorn balls
Laffy taffy milky way
Jelly belly sweet tart
Gummy worms whoppers
Carmel apples Bit-o-honey

FIVE WORDS
Create a short story using these five words:
Goblin, witches brew, broom, pumpkin, black horse

The Williamsburg Creative Writing Group meets every Thursday 10:30am-12:30pm. Everyone is welcome

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Prompts for the week of October 4th, 2012

Prompt
This week let’s see what we can do with slogans. Use one or more of the following or use one or more of your own.
Let go and let God
One day at a time
Keep it simple
Listen and learn
Easy does it

FIVE WORDS
Create a short story using these five words:
Patience, vengeance, tradition, courage, peacock
HAVE FUN!

We want to send our thanks to Keith Maginn, the young author who shared his knowledge and time with us last week. We wish him much success.
The Williamsburg Creative Writing Group meets every Thursday 10:30am-12:30pm. Everyone is welcome.

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Prompts for the week of September 20th, 2012

Prompt
As I was riding around the other day I began to notice some of the road signs. Knowing that you are always up to a challenge let’s create a story from one or more of the following signs.
Rail road crossing ahead
Do not pass
Yield
Service road only
One way

FIVE WORDS
Create a short story using these five words:
Financial, connect, style, marathon, spider
HAVE FUN!
PLEASE NOTE: We might have a guest speaker this week.  The young, self-published author, Keith Maginn might join us to share the steps he took to publish his self-help memoir.
The Williamsburg Creative Writing Group meets every Thursday 10:30am-12:30pm. Everyone is welcome.

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Prompts for the week of September 13th, 2012

Prompt:
Create a short story from one or more of the following prompts.
Making mornings magnificent
People say I’m earthbound
She was the fashion bug of her time
A shared passion
A family on the move

FIVE WORDS
Create a short story using these five words:
Behavior, errand, circles, selection, sword fish

HAVE FUN!
The Williamsburg Creative Writing Group meets every Thursday 10:30am-12:30pm. Everyone is welcome.

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Prompts for the week of September 6th, 2012

Prompt
Create a short story using one or more of the following prompts.
What am I on this Earth for?
If I could write a chapter—–
Walking in the park and I see a child——
The story of three women during the integration of schools

FIVE WORDS
Create a short story using these five words:
Telegraph, jump rope, dreams, memories, porcupine
HAVE FUN!
The Williamsburg Creative Writing Group meets every Thursday 10:30am-12:30pm. Everyone is welcome.

Amelia Library Writers Group September 11, 2012

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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.

 

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Prompts for the week of August 30th, 2012

Prompt
Using one or more of the sentences that you created for this week as your prompts, write a short story. Remember to be creative and stretch your mind.

FIVE WORDS
Create a short story using these five words:
Clutter, amazing, backlash, inspiration, horse
HAVE FUN!

The Williamsburg branch is open again and looking great!Please stop in to see the improvements. The Williamsburg Creative Writing Group meets every Thursday 10:30am-12:30pm

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Prompts for the week of August 23rd, 2012

Prompt
In order to be creative you have to take your mind to unfamiliar places. Let’s explore the hidden treasures of our minds. Complete the following sentence by inserting one of the following.
If I were a —– I’d
A piece of fruit
A historical figure
A house hold object
A cartoon character
A zoo animal
A celebrity
Example: If I were a piece of fruit, I’d be a cherry so that I could sit on top of an ice cream Sunday.

FIVE WORDS
Create a short story using these five words:
Author, corn flakes, arduous, flash, monkey
HAVE FUN!

The Williamsburg Creative Group meets every Thursday 10:30am-12:30pm. Everyone is welcome.

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Prompts for the week of August 9th, 2012

Prompt
Setting the scene is very important. This week I will set the scene and you write the story.
It was nearly five o’clock when we were finally entering the fairgrounds. I had hoped we could get the kids over here by noon but that certainly had not worked out. I hated having them out late because it always made the next day so difficult. But I guess I don’t have to worry about that because I will be on a flight out of here early tomorrow morning.
Just then my thoughts were interrupted when a man brushed by me. I turned, only to see him walking away from me as though nothing had happened. The hair on the back of my neck went up when——————–

FIVE WORDS
Create a short story using these five words:
Battleship, lace, impression, harass, koala bear
HAVE FUN!
The Williamsburg branch is open again and looking great!Please stop in to see the improvements. The Williamsburg Creative Writing Group meets every Thursday 10:30am-12:30pm

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Prompts for the week of August 16th 2012

Prompt
Let’s continue with setting a scene. You write the story. Let the story be serious or funny. It can be an adventure or a story rich in character. You develop it from the prompt.
A man and his wife move to a New England town. As they try to get to know the towns people better they find out everyone thinks the house they bought is haunted. The man starts making up stories about the ghosts in their house to gain attention. The more stories he tells the more become true………take it from there
Five words
Create a short story using these five words.
Ancient, window, kingdom, wheelchair, angel.
HAVE FUN
T’s tidbit
Remembering Erma Bombeck. 1927 : 1996.
Erma’s Quotes
Don’t confuse fame with success. Madonna is one. Helen Keller is the other.
How come anything you buy today will go on sale next week?
My theory on housework is, if the item doesn’t multiply, smell, catch on fire or block the refrigerator door, let it be. No one cares. Why should you?
(Erma was a very funny and creative writer, one of the best)
The Williamsburg Creative Writing Group meets every Thursday 10:30am-12:30pm.