Post #53 – Women’s Memoirs, Writing Prompt – Kendra Bonnett and Matilda Butler
By Promptly Portland
Write about the Same Event Turned in a Different Light
This weekend as I walked through Portland’s Saturday Market under the Burnside Bridge, I found myself picking up dozens of beautifully made craft items. One object, a kaleidoscope, caught my fancy. I held it up to the light and slowly turned it.
The narrow wooden tube had three mirrors inside as well as small pieces of colored glass. Although these basic elements remained the same, each turn of the kaleidoscope brought a different composition to my eye. On the way home, I kept remembering the different shapes and patterns. The surprise was that the same components could look so different each time my hand rotated.
Choose one of the three writing prompts below.
500 Words (or more) Writing Prompt:
1. Write for five minutes about a place that you know well. Then turn the place. Write about it from another time or from someone else’s perspective. At the end, notice how the place seems different.
2. Write for five minutes about a person that you know well. Turn the elements you included and see how the image changes. Perhaps the second time you write about the person at a younger (or older) age. Maybe you write as if you were that person rather than someone who is a friend or relative. What changes in the descriptive paragraph?
3. Write for five minutes about an event that happened yesterday. Then write about the event a second time, but only after you have turned the event kaleidoscope. Assume it happened first thing in the morning before you were busy with your day. Or write about it as if it had happened late at night when you were tired. Write about it as if it happened to someone else instead of you. Turn the event kaleidoscope between the two writings and then examine how the basic event seems changed by holding it up to a different light.
Until next time,
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