We were given 3 rules and 11 prompts to choose from. We were to write 3 separate pieces in about 40 minutes, which breaks into 10 minutes chunks per piece.
Mid October I went with the usual group of writers to Onjuku for a Writer's Workshop/Retreat. There were so many tips and tricks that I learnt in that two day and there were also so many fears and phobia that I concurred that weekend.
I would only be sharing the writing exercises and the prompts in this blog.
The moderator gave us a phrase and we were free to write about anything that we wanted to. Time given to write was 10 minutes. The prompt was : "She went to the ocean and it moved her"
I have been going through small challenges these past few months and I had a breakdown for a while back and I felt a little better yesterday. Today, I force myself to be in a room of people, familiar and unfamiliar.
I guess this is the best way for me to de-stress myself.
The moderator gave us a phrase and we were free to write about anything that we wanted to. Time given to write was 10 minutes.
The prompt was : “The difference is I lie for a reason”
I have not been going for any writer’s
circle for the past few months and have not been doing any creative writing for
a while. For the fear of losing my hold on the English language, I asked a
friend to help me out and she would give me prompts for me to write.
I would very much welcome any kind of
response to better my writing.
Time given to write was 10 minutes.
The prompt was: “Ballet Shoes, Football
Ball and a Wheelchair”
I made a huge mistake here but I guess I might as
well put it up anyways. I did not attend the first two workshops but I tried my
hands on the homework anyways.
The question was to choose 3 emotions and
describe the emotion using all the way possible (all ways meant by using all 5 senses). I did not know what the ways
was so I decided to just pick 3 emotions and describe them in 3 ways.
I was surprised when I heard the news about the missing flight MH 370. When the media released the list of passengers and crews on board, my heart just broke. It was sad enough that it happened, but knowing it happened to the people that I knew seemed so far from my thought.
I wrote that short phrase (I don't think it could even be called a poem) somewhere in May of '09 during a sleepless night apparently. Funnily enough, I remembered what happened the day this popped up in my brain. A mistake that I have done over and over again.
The moderator gave us a picture and we were free to write about anything that we wanted to. This practice is related to my last post where we had to list down our observation of the picture. Time given to write was 10 minutes.
The moderator gave us each a picture. 1 minute was given to observe the picture and 2 minutes to list down the observed thoughts. Unfortunately I did not take a picture of that picture to be posted here. It was a picture of 2 kids on christmas morning holding stockings in front of a fire place. A very tipical christmas picture of the 80s and early 90s.