Bonus: Free Writing Prompt
We are journeying from the point we are born. Distance.
If you are a paid subscriber to Notes from the Margin, you will have been receiving a daily paywalled writing prompt as part of the April Write-A-Thon. You’ve now passed the halfway point! Congratulations!
If you are making any sort of commitment to your writing this month - notes, poems, journalling, thinking, researching, congratulations. Building routine and finding motivation is half the fight to get to where you want in the writing world.
To celebrate, here’s ANOTHER writing prompt (evil laugh).
I’m making this one free for all subscribers to Notes from the Margin. For one day, for one hour, make a commitment to enjoy your creativity. Don't over think, just write.
Just write.
First though, let’s ground ourselves with Anne Lamott’s Ted Talk - 12 Truths I learned from Life and Writing:
Think about where you are and where you’ve come from. Who are you and who have you been? How far have you travelled, figuratively? How far have you travelled physically? We begin at a point on earth, at birth and for how ever many years we are here we are journeying to a single point, at death. If we could put tracker devices on ourselves, and then bring up our movement on a map of the world, what would yours look like?
The Prompt
Distance. What’s the furthest distance you’ve ever travelled from the place where you were born? How does it make you feel to be so far away from your roots? Maybe you don’t feel you have roots, maybe the world is your home. Write a short piece of prose or a poem which focuses on the feelings associated with being away from familiar surroundings.
Don’t forget, prompts are jumping off points so wherever your brain goes, let it.
Happy writing!