Post #90 – Women’s Memoirs, Writing Prompt – Kendra Bonnett and Matilda Butler
MEMOIR WRITING AND EMOTIONS
Recently, while in Portland, I unexpectedly found a store that opened my eyes (and nose) to a new way to consider how we write about emotions. Fortunately, I had my camera with me so I turned this week’s writing prompt into a five minute video.
I hope you’ll enjoy it.
MORE MEMOIR WRITING PROMPTS
While working on this video above, I remembered two previous video writing prompts I did. In case you missed them, I’ve added them to this post.
A Memoir Writing Prompt Creates Another Prompt
I created the first video above while at my sister-in-law’s home. It is always a pleasure to visit as she manages her household with the same attention to detail that has served her well in her career as a biochemist. When staying with her and her husband, we work part of each day in our room and then go out for lovely walks and visits to museums in Boston. I was playing the video one last time to see if it needed more editing when my sister-in-law came in. “What are you doing?” she asked. I began to explain that a Mother Goose Nursery Rhyme is the framework for the video.
Even before I was through telling her the details, she began to begin moving around the room. (She later told me that my writing prompt prompted her to action.) She walked over to several bookcases, but didn’t pull out any books. To my puzzled look, she said, “I thought my childhood Mother Goose book was down here, but it must have been discarded during our last move.”
So imagine my surprise when she walked in the next morning, Percy — her much loved Corgi close behind, with the much treasured book, tattered but in reasonable condition. I looked through it and found another nursery rhyme that was often said to me. Actually, my mother quoted this Mother Goose Nursery Rhyme to me so many times that I began to believe I was the little girl. I’m not telling so you’ll have to ask people who know me if indeed I’m like this.
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