About once a quarter we do a story prompt. We’ve done pictures, songs, phrases and even little boxes of words and dollar store trinkets.

This time one of our members chose several prompts and assigned them to numbers, which we choose without knowing what the prompt will be. We’ll guess after we read the stories.

Over all, we work on our own projects. Challenges become more a group activity rather than part of the process.

I’ve never preferred a group and built on exercises. I would rather work on my ideas and let others do the same. I’ve gone through the formal training. Sometimes informal discussion is what is needed in writing. A group working on how ideas come together, change and work to make a piece of writing worthwhile to read.