A SPRING CREATIVE CHALLENGE FOR PEOPLE OF ALL AGES! With Jo Cowan It’s all felt a bit serious recently! Our latest Highland Senior Citizens Network (HSCN) newsletter included a wee creative writing challenge to folk just to cheer us up and get our brains working again after the winter. Already people are putting pen to paper, or fingers to keyboard, and we’re really impressed by the responses. It occurs to us that this is something which people of any age can take part in – so, people of Lochaber…..Here is THE HSCN WRITING CHALLENGE. We love an acrostic* at HSCN – so we’re throwing down this gauntlet to you: Create a story using all the letters of the alphabet, in order, as the beginning of words to create a “tale for our times”. We’re being kind. Instead of a word beginning with x, at that point you can use any word with x in it! There are only so many xylophones and x-rays we can endure! As an example, here’s my first attempt. It’s called Spring TeaBreak in Lockdown.
A bird. Cuckoo? Delivering expectant fanfares. Gently humming insects jive. Kids, laughing, mark new openings, playing quietly round school. Tuneful, undulating voices, warmly expressing youthful zest.
noon on Friday mornings. Please share your creations with us by emailing to jo-hscn@ outlook.com or by sending them by post to Jo Cowan, c/o Nevis Radio, Unit 4a Ben Nevis Industrial Estate, Fort William, PH33 6PR.
Over to you. Twenty-six words only. You’re welcome to add punctuation wherever you need (*We’re cheating a wee bit: it. You can also add an approprian acrostic is usually a poem in ate title. which the first letter of each line No prizes: it’s just a bit of fun. spells out a word, a message or However, we will read some of the alphabet. We just like the the best ones out on Nevis Raidea of stories – but poems are dio’s On Air Community Coffee Morning between 11am and acceptable too!)
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