Monday, September 22, 2008

Taking a break

This blog is taking a break while I teach some paid-for courses.

"How to Blog" for yourself and your business and "Creative Writing Inspiration" - both 9-week online courses fully supported with a tutor and supportive learning group online - start on 29th September and 6th October, respectively.

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Monday, September 15, 2008

Quotations - family

This week's writing and journalling prompts are sayings and quotations about the family.

Use the quote as a starter for your writing. Big family events and reunions can be wonderful or a little trying…
If you don't believe in ghosts, you've never been to a family reunion.
Ashleigh Brilliant

~~~ Scrapbooker’s journalling challenge ~~~

Create a LO about a family reunion

~~~ Scrapper’s journaling challenge ~~~

Sunday, September 14, 2008

Quotations - sweets

This week's writing topic and journal prompts are from sayings and quotes.

Use the quote as a starter for your writing.
Families are like fudge - mostly sweet with a few nuts. Barbara
Johnson
~~~ Scrapbooker’s journalling challenge ~~~

Create a LO about a favourite food of your family.

~~~ Scrapper’s journaling challenge ~~~

Saturday, September 13, 2008

Quotations - the family as a gift

This week's journal prompts for writers and scrapbookers are all quotations about the family.

Use the quote as a starter for your writing.

You don't choose your family. They are God's gift to you, as you are
to them. Desmond Tutu

~~~ Scrapbooker’s journalling challenge ~~~

Create a LO including every member of your immediate family

~~~ Scrapper’s journaling challenge ~~~

Friday, September 12, 2008

Quotations – extended family

This week's writing and journalling prompts are from quotations

Use the quote as a starter for your writing. Is the following true for you?
The word family has taken on a wonderful and extended meaning... and can
include people like coworkers or roommates. Angela Shapiro

~~~ Scrapbooker’s journalling challenge ~~~

Create a minibook with each page dedicated to a person who has meant a lot to you in your life.

~~~ Scrapper’s journaling challenge ~~~

Thursday, September 11, 2008

Quotations – ruling the family

This week's prompts for writing and journaling are all quotations.

Use the quote as a starter for your writing. Who rules your family? Successfully? Does your family have rules or are you against them?
It is easier to rule a kingdom than to regulate a family. Chinese
Proverb

~~~ Scrapbooker’s journalling challenge ~~~

Create a LO about rules that your family have whether formal or informal: “We always have scrambled egg for Sunday breakfast”

~~~ Scrapper’s journaling challenge ~~~

Wednesday, September 10, 2008

Quotations – family as friends

This week we’re writing in our journals and scrapbooks following from inspiration of famous quotes and sayings.

Use the quote as a starter for your writing. Are your family members also friends? Or are your friends closer than your family?

Friends are God's apology for relations. Hugh Kingsmill

~~~ Scrapbooker’s journalling challenge ~~~

Create a LO with this quote as the title.

~~~ Scrapper’s journaling challenge ~~~

Tuesday, September 9, 2008

Quotations - family

This week's writing and journalling prompts are inspired by quotations.

Use the quote as a starter for your writing.

Call it a clan, call it a network, call it a tribe, call it a family.
Whatever you call it, whoever you are, you need one. Jane Howard

What does family mean to you?

~~~ Scrapbooker’s journalling challenge ~~~

Create a LO with the title “family”.

~~~ Scrapper’s journaling challenge ~~~

Monday, September 8, 2008

Titles - slang

This week's writing and journalling prompts are about titles.

Can you write starting with a title that is a piece of local slang or traditional terminology?

Pearly princess
Yorkshire Pudding
Angel of the North

Sunday, September 7, 2008

Titles – quotes

This week's writing topic and journal prompts are from titles.

Today - use a saying or quotation

"It's not the days in your life that count, but the life in your days."


Saturday, September 6, 2008

Titles – similes

This week's journal prompts for writers and scrapbookers are about titles. Today, why not start your writing with a simile - a figure of speech in which two essentially unlike things are compared, often in a phrase introduced by ‘like’ or ‘as’:

Shine brightly like the star you are!

Friday, September 5, 2008

Titles – inspired by definitions

This week's writing and journalling prompts are about Titles of various kinds.

Today – be inspired by a definition - look up a word in the dictionary – or here’s one to get you started.

Accomplish (ac·com·plish ) 1. to succeed in doing or achieving something 2.
reach point in time: to arrive at the end of a period of time

Try to create your own definition for a strong word such as an emotion - add to the definition with a thoughtful extra that is more feeling than definition.

Thursday, September 4, 2008

Titles – inspiration from literature

This week's prompts for writing and journaling are about Titles.

Here is inspiration from Shakespeare, no less! Romeo and Juliet…

What’s in a name?

Wednesday, September 3, 2008

Titles – inspiration from TV

This week we’re writing in our journals and scrapbooks about Titles.

Today - take inspiration from the TV

Top Gear

Tuesday, September 2, 2008

Titles – not quite puns

Simple writing and journalling prompts this week: titles

Create a piece of writing or a layout.

Rules of engagement

Monday, September 1, 2008

Computers – the internet

This week's writing and journalling prompts are about computers.

What are your favourite websites and why?

~~~ Scrapbooker’s journalling challenge ~~~

Create a LO about one of your favourite scrapping websites and what it has taught you about scrapping. Use a screenshot as your central feature.

~~~ Scrapper’s journaling challenge ~~~