After a short (or maybe not so short) hiatus from Write on Wednesday, I am back (hopefully for the long haul but no promises)! I will try to catch up on some of the ones I have missed, but for now, this week’s WOW prompt:
The Write on Wednesday Spark: Small Expectations
As I am thinking about education and learning, kindergarten and university, I have taken this week's writing exercise from one of my early childhood books. It is an activity I do with small children and one that always inspires so I thought it would be fun to see what the exercise inspires in adults. So, your prompt is: Imagine yourself as tiny as your thumb.Where would you live? What would you do?
I know this might be a difficult exercise but it's all in the name of exploration. Try and make it work for your own writing needs. Write a children's story, write a fantasy piece or work it into a fiction or non-fiction piece. Wherever the prompt takes you. Keep your post on the short side: up to 500 words OR a 5 minute stream of consciousness exercise. Link your finished piece to the list and begin popping by the other links. Oh, and enjoy!
As I am thinking about education and learning, kindergarten and university, I have taken this week's writing exercise from one of my early childhood books. It is an activity I do with small children and one that always inspires so I thought it would be fun to see what the exercise inspires in adults. So, your prompt is: Imagine yourself as tiny as your thumb.Where would you live? What would you do?
I know this might be a difficult exercise but it's all in the name of exploration. Try and make it work for your own writing needs. Write a children's story, write a fantasy piece or work it into a fiction or non-fiction piece. Wherever the prompt takes you. Keep your post on the short side: up to 500 words OR a 5 minute stream of consciousness exercise. Link your finished piece to the list and begin popping by the other links. Oh, and enjoy!
Sometimes I feel so small. It is as if I am but a fragment of myself, no bigger than my own thumb. The ever changing world is transforming around me, shifting, moving, growing into something greater and yet here I remain stagnant, dormant, tiny. I maneuver through life fluidly without making so much as a ripple, let alone a splash. But as I reflect, I remember that it is the tiniest and most determined of creatures that are able to eventually fly. The caterpillar morphs into a beautiful butterfly to spread its wings. The scientific anomaly of a bumblebee insistently takes to the air. So too may I one day fly.
No quite what I originally started with, but I kind of like where it ended up. Seems a bit choppy though – as if I started in one direction and then flowed into another.
Sometimes, being small takes gumption.
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