This meme was started by Delores a long time ago. Computer issues led her to bow out for a while. The meme was too much fun to let go, and now Words for Wednesday is provided by a number of people and has become a movable feast.
Essentially the aim is to encourage us to write. Each week we are given a choice of prompts: which can be words, phrases, music or an image. What we do with those prompts is up to us: a short story, prose, a song, a poem, or treating them with ignore... We can use some or all of the prompts, and mixing and matching is encouraged.
Some of us put our creation in comments on the post, and others post on their own blog. I would really like it if as many people as possible joined into this fun meme, which includes cheering on the other participants. If you are posting on your own blog - let me know so that I, and other participants, can come along and applaud. And huge thanks to those of you who come back, sometimes time after time to cheer other contributors on.
Huge thanks to Hilary Melton-Butcher for providing the prompts last month. The prompts will be here again this month and are provided by Charlotte (MotherOwl).
An additional prompt from Charlotte (MotherOwl) is her colour of the month to use (or not) in your take on the prompts. The colour for July is"Writing Pleasure Purple"
This week's prompts are:
- Sort
- Pollution
- Crooked
- Learned
- Wanting
- Industry
And/or
- Education
- Colour
- Withdraw
- Coach
- Bellow
- Cat
Have fun.
I will schedule the posts for the rest of the month and they will still appear.
I don't know what a BellowCat is
ReplyDeleteOr why words are joined together like that these days
Or why colour has a u
It's wrong I tell you!
Education would coach us out of this crooked way
But here we are wanting, sorting
Trying to find a way to withdraw or overcome
Or maybe adapt?
Hi Sandi - I think it's probably 'bellow' and 'cat' ... ah ha - the 'u' is our spelling - if you don't mind?! English colour, so tis not wrong over here.
DeleteWe learn as we get older don't we ... but your cocoction is brilliant - well done. Cheers Hilary
The U in colour is mine, I'm Danish, but spell in British English ;) And yes it's bellow and cat not bellowcat.
DeleteThanks for writing a educationa poem with my words.
The “u” in colour, favour, splendour etc is used in every country in the world where English is the native tongue or official language, so please refrain from telling us it is wrong. The one country that doesn’t spell correctly is out of step.
DeleteHere's mine. Happy to return and great words Charlotte - all words used!
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She was the sort of elder that would be called a crone in olden times.
Driven to wearing the colour purple inappropriately everywhere including in her hair dye and on her toenails. Crooked the neighbours called her. They all learned how to take her. She had taken on the habit of gripping a purple pipe in her mouth. Smoke belched from it adding to the pollution from the village.
Her education was questionable at best. Word had it she never went on to secondary education and had withdrawn when her father, who drove the village coach service, died.
With remarkable industry she had taken it over as she was tall for her age and already looked ancient.
Her father had trained her in use of a bellowcat which supplemented her bus income which was always left wanting.
But in the way of villages, her purple coach had become a fixture and the smoke from her pipe was tolerated without complaint for who else would want her job?
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Well done WWW - clever use of the words ... I could see the purple coach and her puffing pipe ... exactly who would want her job? Good for you - cheers Hilary
DeleteHehe thanks for this fun story. I can see her in my mind's eyd, purple all over, smoke billowing and driving a purpel coach. Thanks!
DeleteHi EC and Charlotte ....
ReplyDelete"Education had taught them that the purple colour pollution swirling around was most definitely wanting. Their coach bellowed at them to get indoors, the cat rushed in too.
They knew the industry was crooked … so looked across the playing field at the purple pollutants spewing out from the chimneys.
The coach needs to sort all the players out, so they're all accounted for. Then he has to write a report … not the usual Writing for Pleasure that he so enjoys."
Cheers - I'll be back tomorrow to comment on everyone's entries ... take care - Hilary
I like what you did with bellow cat! 😀
DeleteThanks Hilary, purple pollution sounds pretty, but not quite healthy.
ReplyDeleteIt does sound pretty!
DeleteHoping to get to the words soon and my post will be over here.
ReplyDeletewanting for nothing
ReplyDeletea rich kid
the sort who had
a superior education
a life coach for his persian cat
|learned wealthy parents captains of industry
who funded the movie 'the colour purple'
withdrew from conventional life
devoting his time and energy
to exposing crooked government officials
arrested for bellowing at a policeman
at a demonstration protesting
the pollution of the planet
I used all the words. This was fun. Thanks.
The Education Coach had to withdraw his cream-coloured cat from the contest as he bellowed too much.
ReplyDeleteUsually nothing hits me but something really dumb did this time!