My Churchill Writers are meeting this afternoon, online because of weather at this time of year in the UK and because so many of us are unwell. Here are some prompts for anyone who can’t be with us – five to ten minutes for each one, just to see where they take you. Longer if the writing is taking hold:

‘Do I dare to eat a peach?’ From Eliot’s The Love Song of Alfred J Prufrock

‘Grief is a straightforward emotion’ – Orpheus – Heathcliff – Edna de Millay

‘Publish and be damned’ – the Duke of Wellington to aspiring blackmailers

‘I hear it in the deep heart’s core’ from Yeats’s poem The Lake Isle of Innisfree

Winter

Happy writing!