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This week, Nina Karnikowski’s The Writer Within asks us to find our muse.

Happiness is a Day filled with vows and flowers You, my sunlit life This is for Rebecca at Fake Flamenco!

On an ordinary day When life tasted sweet I sat in front Of an empty chair With a table between us Waiting for conversation I sat as the world Grew older No wiser Expectant and anxious In front of that chair Quiet, empty and still I asked politely for wat…

Love lies just beyond The screaming heat Designed for pain Through rage thrown To wound It presses past charred earth To reach the light outside Crossed wires Crossed arms Crossed hearts turning Frustrations easing Understanding dawning To cool tempers Lo…

Autumn arrived without announcement Yesterday’s sunshine Summer’s goodbye Rain now beats on windows Homes glow cosy and warm As grey skies soak into darkness It’s time For big jumpers Giant blankets Steaming cups of tea Warming cold hands Cold fingers Tir…

Prompt 9: Write a letter to yourself now, from the perspective of yourself in 10 years’ time.

I bought this from an earnest young man outside a university campus.

나는 너무 오래 모국어 밖에서 살아왔다 내 언어는 낯설게 두 세계 사이에 끼어 있다 뿌리로 건너가는 불안정한 다리 어색한 소리가 되어 입 밖으로 굴러나온다 날카롭지도 온전하지도 않은 채 시옷은 새어 나가고 디귿은 어눌하다 나는 다른 생각들 속에서 헤엄쳐왔다 수년 동안 그 물에 잠겨 그 생각들이 내 입 안으로 스며 들어올 때까지 배신처럼 외치며 나는 더 이상 예전과 같이 생각하지 않는다 그러나 이 해어져 가는 연결은 끊어지지 않고 아직 남아 있다 부모와…

The problem with fear Is that it tastes real The crush of nerves Deep in our chest Meets the salt in our mouths And bile in our gut To colour our world Sweat beads As we think of stepping outside That zone we’ve marked comfort Our mind screaming Outside t…

Prompt 8: Divide a page into 4 sections, with one of the subheadings below at the top of each section: See Hear Feel Smell Write 4 simple bullet point sentences for each sense, describing the four things you can see, hear, feel and smell around you right…

I am heading out to an independent theatre today to see this fantastic story.

Today my white, conservative evangelical Christian husband was accused of being a communist with wild and twisted fantasies.

Prompt 7: When was the last time you said yes, when you would have preferred to say no?

I like this week’s prompt.

Mrs Brown says that in London everyone is different and that means anyone can fit in… This mural of Paddington Bear has always been near Waterloo station in London, but I’ve only noticed it recently.

The prompt today encourages us to note down our thoughts.

I am really enjoying my writing class.

The prompt for this week (from The Writer Within by Nina Karnikowski) says we can’t create what we can’t see, which means we must allow ourselves to dream of better lives and worlds.

Finished the first draft of my first play, yesterday!

Prompt 3: Write about what brings you a sense of purpose.

I am embarking on something new.

There is an advocate I follow on social media.

Prompt 2: What was the last thing you did that made you feel like a ‘human being’, rather than a ‘human doing’?

Prompt 1: Admit something you’ve never (or rarely) confessed to anyone… Once a week for the next few weeks I’m planning on working through Nina Karnikowski’s box of prompts to keep me writing.

It was a relentlessly sunny day again.