What kind of sounds characterised your holiday?It might be the sounds of birds, or waves, or instruments, music, or people's accents.
What was different about the SOUND?
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Showing posts with label writing. Show all posts
Monday, August 18, 2008
Travel - sounds
The Irish musicians in Dublin...
What kind of sounds characterised your holiday?
It might be the sounds of birds, or waves, or instruments, music, or people's accents.
What was different about the SOUND?
What kind of sounds characterised your holiday?It might be the sounds of birds, or waves, or instruments, music, or people's accents.
What was different about the SOUND?
Sunday, August 17, 2008
Travel - a sense of place
No picture to prompt you today. Start by closing your eyes for a moment and remembering the place you are writing about. Where are you standing? What can you see?
Now write - describe the place in detail using all your senses.
Now write - describe the place in detail using all your senses.
Saturday, August 16, 2008
Travel - food
In what way was the food on your holiday or journey differrnt from what you usually have?Friday, August 15, 2008
Travel - landscape
This was the entrance to a cave on a beach in North Cornwall. So enticing and exciting!
- How did the landscape strike you in your holiday location?
- Was it different from what you usually see?
- Did you like it?
- Would you like to live there all the time?
Thursday, August 14, 2008
Travel - heritage
This week the writing prompts and journalling ideas are - appropriately enough for the summer holiday season - about travel. Write about a particular journey all week if you can. As a scrapbooker this should get you nicely advanced on your holiday album.
Here's my son on Brighton Pier. It was a very traditional kind of English seaside experience - must have been very similar to the seaside trips of people for generations - except for the prices!
How does your holiday compare with previous holidays and vacations? Ones that you have taken, and ones that earlier visitors to the same place may have experienced.
Here's my son on Brighton Pier. It was a very traditional kind of English seaside experience - must have been very similar to the seaside trips of people for generations - except for the prices!How does your holiday compare with previous holidays and vacations? Ones that you have taken, and ones that earlier visitors to the same place may have experienced.
Wednesday, August 13, 2008
Travel - history
This week the writing prompts and journalling ideas are - appropriately enough for the summer holiday season - about travel. Write about a particular journey all week if you can. As a scrapbooker this should get you nicely advanced on your holiday album.
When we visited Fishbourne Roman Villa, we saw this Roman skeleton, thousands of years' old.
- How much do you know about the history of the place you visited?
Tuesday, August 12, 2008
Travel
This week the writing prompts and journalling ideas are - appropriately enough for the summer holiday season - about travel. Write about a particular journey all week if you can. As a scrapbooker this should get you nicely advanced on your holiday album.
- How did you travel?
- Was there anything unusual about the way you travelled?
- Did you go on any day trips?
- Did anything go wrong?
Monday, August 11, 2008
Teenagers - milestone birthdays
This week’s writing prompts are about teens. If you don’t have teen children (or older offspring whose teens you remember), then apply the prompts to teen relatives or friends, or your own teen years. Or write about “teens round here…”
There are several milestone birthdays in the teens.
- Becoming a teenager at 13
- Starting to pay adult fares at 16
- Learning to drive at 17 (or whatever age it is in your country)
- The big 18 when they’re not really grown up although they can legally qualify as an adult.
Write about what it means to reach one of these birthdays.
~~~ Scrapbooker’s journalling challenge ~~~
Create a layout about a milestone birthday.
~~~ Scrapper’s journaling challenge ~~~
Create a layout about a milestone birthday.
~~~ Scrapper’s journaling challenge ~~~
Sunday, August 10, 2008
Teenagers - Gadgets
This week’s writing prompts are about teens. If you don’t have or haven’t had teen children of your own, then apply the prompts to teenage relatives or friends, or perhaps to your own teen years. Or write about “contemporary teenagers”.
Teenagers love their gadgets. They walk around with earphones stuck in their ears (good excuse to not hear when you ask them to do a chore!) or their fingers busy with game controllers or texting. And when it comes to computers and the kinds of “gadgets” they use online like MSN or social networks…
Write about the gadgets your teenager owns, or even the way they use one particular gadget.
~~~ Scrapbooker’s journalling challenge ~~~
Create a layout on “Gadgets”
~~~ Scrapper’s journaling challenge ~~~
Create a layout on “Gadgets”
~~~ Scrapper’s journaling challenge ~~~
Saturday, August 9, 2008
Teenagers - Prom
This week’s writing prompts are about teens. If you don’t have teen children (or older offspring whose teens you remember), then apply the prompts to teen relatives or friends, or your own teen years. Or write about all teens or teenage as a concept.
The prom is a milestone in the life of many teens. In fact they may have more than one. But however many they have it is certainly an occasion for photographs and journalling.
Write about how you felt when your child went to their school leaving prom.
Start “The day of the Prom…”
Start “His/her prom outfit was…”
~~~ Scrapbooker’s journalling challenge ~~~
Create a layout on “The Prom”.
One possibility would be to focus on the outfits.
Another would be to focus on the people.
~~~ Scrapper’s journaling challenge ~~~
Friday, August 8, 2008
Teenagers - day in the life
This week’s writing prompts are about teens. If you don’t have or haven’t had teen children of your own, then apply the prompts to teenage relatives or friends, or perhaps to your own teen years. Or write about “contemporary teenagers”.
What does a teenager’s day consist of?
It might be interesting to write a comparison of a teenager’s typical day in a previous generation (e.g., yours if you’re a parent) and a teen’s typical day nowadays.
~~~ Scrapbooker’s journalling challenge ~~~
Create a layout on “A life in a day…” How does a typical day typify a teen’s lifestyle – or your own?
~~~ Scrapper’s journaling challenge ~~~
Thursday, August 7, 2008
Teenagers - Secrets
This week’s writing prompts are about teens. If you don’t have teen children (or older offspring whose teens you remember), then apply the prompts to teen relatives or friends, or your own teen years. Or write about all teens
If you’re a parent you probably don’t know or want to know your teen’s secrets! Did you have any secrets when you were a teen? What secrets might a teen of today have? How do they hide or share them? Journals, mobile phones, computers? What about the social networks they’re members of? I bet they don’t let you be their “friend”.
Write about teenagers and their secrets.
~~~ Scrapbooker’s journalling challenge ~~~
Create a layout on “What ARE you wearing?”
~~~ Scrapper’s journaling challenge ~~~
Wednesday, August 6, 2008
Teenagers - What to wear
This week’s writing prompts are about teens. If you haven’t had teen children then apply the prompts to teen relatives or friends, or your own teenage years. Or write about all teens or teenagerhood as a concept.
Teenagers seem to belong to tribes which dictate what their personal style is – emo or goth or whatever… Much of it seems to be black, whatever their style!
And when they’re not wearing strange combinations of layers, none of which are actually appropriate to the weather, they’re in fancy dress. There is a university city I drive through regularly and there doesn’t seem to be a time (except in the holidays!) when there aren’t groups of students in fancy dress walking into town…
~~~ Scrapbooker’s journalling challenge ~~~
Create a layout on “What ARE you wearing?”
~~~ Scrapper’s journaling challenge ~~~
Tuesday, August 5, 2008
Teenagers - attitude
This week’s blog prompts and journal ideas are about teens. If you don’t have teen children (or older offspring whose teens you remember), then apply the prompts to teen relatives or friends, or your own teen years. Or write about all teens
Today: All teenagers have attitude.
My two just spent our holiday running away from me whenever I got the camera out. They know I’m a scrapbooker and they are unhelpful about providing pictures…
~~~ Scrapbooker’s journalling challenge ~~~
Create a layout with a bad picture – where someone has turned away or put their hands in front of their face or similar.
Add a humorous title.
~~~ Scrapper’s journaling challenge ~~~
Monday, August 4, 2008
Simple prompts - sound
Simple prompts for a lazy time of year (northern hemisphere anyway!)
Is there a sound which you associate with a particular memory? For me it's the sound of the ropes on sailing dinghies and yachts flapping against the masts - not a sound I hear often except when visiting a harbour or sailing beach - which is very rare in my life - but it reminds me of the seemingly endless summers we spent in North Wales on holiday when I was a child. It was a big sailing area, and the breezes set the ropes flapping onthe masts and that sound takes me back to my childhood like no other...
Write about a particularly significant sound.
Is there a sound which you associate with a particular memory? For me it's the sound of the ropes on sailing dinghies and yachts flapping against the masts - not a sound I hear often except when visiting a harbour or sailing beach - which is very rare in my life - but it reminds me of the seemingly endless summers we spent in North Wales on holiday when I was a child. It was a big sailing area, and the breezes set the ropes flapping onthe masts and that sound takes me back to my childhood like no other...
Write about a particularly significant sound.
Sunday, August 3, 2008
Simple prompts - left out
This week's blog prompt and journalling topics for your creative writing and scrapbooking are very simple, though no less powerful for that!
Think about the last time you felt left out. Happens to us all one time or another. Someone went somewhere without you - forgot your birthday, or similar.
For me it was my 25th wedding anniversary when I started to organise a wonderful party months in advance and everyone said they couldn't come (months in advance?????). So I cancelled the party and when the time came no-one even sent a card despite the fact they must have known it was coming up.
I'm still gutted and I'm still smarting.... better not write any more!
Think about the last time you felt left out. Happens to us all one time or another. Someone went somewhere without you - forgot your birthday, or similar.
For me it was my 25th wedding anniversary when I started to organise a wonderful party months in advance and everyone said they couldn't come (months in advance?????). So I cancelled the party and when the time came no-one even sent a card despite the fact they must have known it was coming up.
I'm still gutted and I'm still smarting.... better not write any more!
Saturday, August 2, 2008
Simple prompts - change
This week's blog prompt themes and journal topics for your creative writing and scrapbooking are very simple, as it's holiday time here.
Today's theme is "change":
The thing I'd most like to see change is...
How I cope with change is...
Today's theme is "change":
The thing I'd most like to see change is...
How I cope with change is...
Friday, August 1, 2008
Simple prompts - creativity
This week's writing ideas and blog prompts are very simple.
Today's theme is "Creativity"
Write:
Creativity is...
My creativity...
What my creativity means to me is....
Today's theme is "Creativity"
Write:
Creativity is...
My creativity...
What my creativity means to me is....
Thursday, July 31, 2008
Simple prompts - dream house
Today's writing prompt follows this week's theme of simplicity.
What woul your dream house be like?
What woul your dream house be like?
Wednesday, July 30, 2008
Simplicity...
This week's blog prompt themes and journal topics for your creative writing and scrapbooking are very simple, as it's holiday time here.
Check out today's news stories and take one of the headlines as a prompt for writing or journalling.
Check out today's news stories and take one of the headlines as a prompt for writing or journalling.
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