This week I thought we could attempt some kind of self-portrait. By that I mean a physical description and what that suggests about your temperament; then some stuff about your good points and your bad points; then something about the way you behaved in a specific situation. If you want to weave these into a…

The task this week is to write a piece of historical fiction. Any era is acceptable. The opening phrase should be ‘Come in’ or equivalent.

The task this week was to write a ghost story.

The idea this week was to write a monologue suitable to be performed by a middle-aged male actor.

The prompt for this week was ‘Self-isolation’. All manner of fiction or non-fiction pieces were welcome.

The prompt this week was ‘Aliens’, which people were entitled to interpret in any way that suited them.

This week we wrote a fictional piece based on a newspaper story. The story, taken from the Gloucestershire Echo, concerned a court case about a street crime in Gloucester.

This week we are writing something based upon a bit of original research. After some casting around, we decided our subject would be ‘Tudor and Stuart architecture’.