This week we are going to try the Wikipedia thing I found on the internet somewhere. It means using a random Wikipedia entry as a prompt. If you want to try it yourself, go to any Wikipedia page in English and click the “random article” link on the left-hand side of the screen under the…

This week, we are going to use as our prompt the word “eleutheromania”. It means “a mania or frantic zeal for freedom” but by all means look up other definitions if it helps.  The idea is to use the word as your title, your theme or to quote it in the story. Write about 600-800…

For our meeting on January 19th, we thought we would take a leaf from Stephen King.  He famously does not plot in advance. He takes a situation, develops some characters and then lets the characters decide what happens. You can read more about this in his book ‘On Writing’, which is well worth £10.99 of…

This Sunday we are going to try writing a story in the second person. That means that instead of your central character being referred to as “I” or “he/she” you use “you”. The prompt is “You can’t be serious”. This does not have to be the first line or indeed used at all in the…