You Don't Necessarily Sense the Motion
On Joan Didion and our past selves + our crucial narrating personas + constructing a voice that commands + a step-by-step prompt for intermingling your past self with your present self on the page
Making this paywalled prompt available to everyone, in honor of my birthday season! I hope you write your socks off with this one, or at least think more deeply, which is half of it, really—or more. And remember, April 1 kicks off Writing in the Dark’s first 30-Day Creativity Challenge! One short, powerful, easy to do creativity-enhancing prompt daily for a month to deepen and amplify your curiosity, awareness, receptivity, and generative nature in the world. Plus, you’ll write more. So if you’re not already a paid subscriber and want to know more, you can read all about it here or at the end of this post! It’s going to be good.
Meanwhile, this week’s writing exercise is a fun one, and it starts with Joan Didion, who once said, oh so wisely, “I think we are well advised to keep on nodding terms with the people we used to be, whether we find them attractive company or not.” This is one of the concepts I want to play with in this week’s writing prompt, in part because I resonate with thi…