Halloooo Scribblers and happy Sunday!
Well! Here we are — the final instalment of the Summer Season of Sunday Scribble. I hope you’ve enjoyed the seasonally-themed prompts over the last few weeks, it’s certainly been a fun challenge coming up with them. I’m going to pause for a couple of weeks and then come back with some autumnally-themed prompts for you. However, one last go before it’s time to swap your beach umbrella for wooly socks and fingerless mittens.
This week, we’re returning to the garden. Perhaps you remember the poison garden from earlier in the spring? This one is a little more light-hearted and just in time for early harvest season. We’re rich in fresh fruit and veg here at the moment…August is definitely the most abundant month in our area…so I thought I’d put a little twist on the late summer bounty.
But first! The invitation:
Even if you don’t identify as a writer, I invite you to have a noodle in a notebook or on a scrap of paper…just to see what might happen.
Write by hand, if you’re able.
Give yourself a time limit.
No edits.
No second thoughts.
Let your pen take a walk across the page.
Ready?
Let’s begin
Write about a garden that, no matter what is planted in it, only grows cabbages.
I know, right?
We once had a plague of cabbages in the veg box that we order from a local farm. I finally had to ask them not to send us anymore. There really is only so much you can do with cabbage.
Off you go then! Have fun with it…use it as an exercise in description, or as the basis of a mock newspaper article…or maybe it’s the seed (HA!) of a poem or a new cosy mystery novel.
As always, feel free to share what you come up with in the comments or a message. I’m taking a couple of weeks off from the Scribble but I’ll be back in your Sunday letterbox on September 15th.
Until then, happy scribbling!
~m. xo
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