Put it all on the line
A summary of last night's Chicken Coop Writing Group with prompts!
Hi! Welcome to another Good Egg Project newsletter!
Today’s title is borrowed from Dangerous from EPIC: The Vengeance Saga
Thank you to everyone who joined us at Lost in Leith Bar last night. The Chicken Coop is always a highlight of my month, and yesterday was no exception!
We got together to get some words on paper, meet other writers, swap books, and share our work.
A special thanks to everyone who read their words for us! We heard from George, Kirby, Ivana, Alisa, Josh, Pat, Barbara, Larissa, Debs, and Ruby. And our most popular prompt by far was misheard lyrics, which inspired stories and poems of Lady Gaga’s biggest rodent fan, parents finding peace and solitude in the bathroom, cake and disappearances in Turkey, four eels appealing to Miss Jackson, and so much more.
We’ll be back at Lost in Leith Bar next month on Tuesday, June 24, from 6- 8pm. If you can’t wait until then, join me for the last Words & Friends of the summer at August_21 on Tuesday, June 10.
For anyone who missed out, you can find our tasks from yesterday below.
What we got up to last night
I’ll be honest, I was at a loss for prompts yesterday, so all of the prompts we used were borrowed from this article by Writers’ Digest.
Task 1:
Misheard Lyrics
Think of some of the song lyrics you have misheard throughout the years. Pick your favorite, and use these misheard lyrics as the title of a new creative writing piece. Write a story, scene, or poem based on this title.
OR
So I’ve heard…
Write a story, poem, or scene that includes sound words that set the scene. Some sound words to get you started:
Bang, bam, thud, splash, squelch, buzz, boom, hiss, hum, whir, groan, sigh, gurgle, moan, mumble, murmur, squeal, chatter, giggle, growl, beep, boing
Task 2:
If you look back far enough, you can see
Complete the sentence ‘If you look back far enough, you can see…’. You can write a story, a scene from a script, or a poem.
OR
No one can see me
Re-write a scene or story from the point of view of someone or something that none of the characters knew was watching, for example, a ghost, an animal, the furniture come to life. You can re-write scenes or stories from other writers or your own scenes and stories.
Thanks for reading!
I hope these prompts help you find some inspiration this week! Sometimes it’s nice to get out of your own head or to look at your work-in-progress from a different angle.
I’ve written some of my favourite pieces this way and also found that prompts take a lot of pressure off having to come up with ideas by yourself! Plus, they sometimes take you down unexpected paths or exactly where you need to be to process something else.
I share all of our prompts and tasks in the newsletter, and while I’ve taken a quiet break from fortnightly prompts this month (NaPoWriMo took it out of me in April), we’ll be back with prompts for paying subscribers from next week.
If you’d like to share what you’ve written, please do send you work over. I’d love to read it and see what you’ve been up to!
Until next week, take care of each other,
Naomi
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