Post #49 – Women’s Memoirs, Writing Prompt – Kendra Bonnett and Matilda Butler
By Promptly Portland
Let’s thank Hemingway for an interesting writing prompt
Since I teach English, I’m continually dipping into various works of literature. The other day I read a quote in Ernest Hemingway’s A Farewell to Arms, which was written in 1929. The passage made me think of a writing prompt that you might enjoy:
The world breaks everyone and afterward many are strong at the broken places. Chapter 34.
I’ve read that if you break a bone, the healing process causes additional bone mass to be deposited at the point of the break. In effect, this would imply that a bone is stronger, once it has healed.
If so, then we can find comfort in our personal breaks and believe that with the healing we will be stronger.
500 Words (or more): Memoir Writing Prompt
1. Consider Hemingway’s words and think of a time when some part of your life was broken. After the healing, did you feel stronger? Perhaps a broken relationship made you stronger, better able to manage other relationships? Write 500 words (or more) about a break you have suffered and how you feel that you are now stronger.
2. Instead, if you are in the midst of a break right now, write about the healing process and what kinds of additional strength around the wound you hope you will find.
Until next time,
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