REPRISE: A Recipe for Breaking Up
Weekly Writing Prompt No. 69
Hello lovely people and thank you for a. opening this email and b. joining me for my weekly writing prompt. These are my attempts at exercising my creative muscles, and I hope they help you exercise yours too. There are no rules, there is no right or wrong way to do them, there is simply your way. Whatever works for you is good.
It’s been an interesting and busy week with no opportunity to sit at my laptop to compose this week’s missive, so I’ve reproduced and lightly edited the first one I added to Substack a little over 12 months ago. Paid members can see their original comments at the link below. Normal service will be resumed next week.
My new book The Music Master is finally available to buy, hurrah! It’s available in many of the usual online places and I’d love to know what you think of it (at least I think so!)
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So have fun, enjoy your writing, and create heaps.
In March 2023 the writing prompts were all recipes of one sort or another from love potions, to changing the world, and life and nature. The first Hysteria Writing Competition short story winner inspired it.
The story that won was called Banana Loaf: A Recipe for Solace, and it explored the journey taken to overcoming grief and reconnecting with lost relationships. The author was Jane Thickett and you can meet her in the interview we did at the beginning of the second Hysteria writing competition.
Today is another picture prompt and taking the theme of solace or sadness, what recipe would you create to help someone or something overcome their grief or loss?
As usual, if you want to share your creative writing I’d love to read it and so would my wonderful audience. However, you may prefer it to remain private and for your notebook only. If you have your own website why not add it as a post there and then provide a link in the comments here to get you extra kudos with the search engines?
With love, light, and laughter
Linda
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(Image by Maricar Limjoco from Pixabay)
I'm cheating I know, but it's been a bit challenging over the last week and I can't think of anything else right now so I'm copying the comment I made on the original post ....
Mum would always say the best way to get over a bad breakup was to go somewhere you loved and do something mad or bad. And my mother had lots of breakups. They followed her around like ducklings after momma duck.
When we were young we didn’t understand it wasn’t normal and we’d accept the explanation that Uncle Max/John/Jimmy or whatever his name was this time, had to go away and wouldn’t be taking us out for treats any more. As far as I know, they never stayed over. Or perhaps we were already in bed by the time they arrived, and they’d gone before we got up.
As we got older though, there was a succession of men through the house and after the inevitable breakup Janey and me would be bundled into the car and swept off to the coast to enjoy a long weekend, sometimes a whole week of shrimping, swimming and lazing on the beach. When we got back mum would be called to the headmaster to explain why her two children were missing without permission. She’d smile and shed a crocodile tear or two while he handed her a tissue and said ‘please don’t worry about it Mrs Jones, they’re bright and will soon catch up’.
So here I am following her advice. I’m by the sea, about as far as I can get from Judith and debating the maddest or baddest thing I can do?