You do not have to walk on your knees for a hundred miles through the desert, repenting. You only have to let the soft animal of your body love what it loves. Tell me about despair, yours, and I will tell you mine. Meanwhile the world goes on. Meanwhile the sun and the clear pebbles…
Day: October 7, 2021
#MemoirFest Day 2: Write about the Setting for a Specific House – Read about the Settings for One Picture Book & Two Novels
Today, we are going to begin to dig a little deeper into that specific house that you wrote about on Day 1. We are going to begin describing that house’s setting. “Places are never just places in a piece of writing. If they are, the author has failed. Setting is not inert. It is activated…
#MemoirFest Day 1: Write about a House That Is Significant In Some Way
#MemoirFest Day 1 Prompt: Write about a House For now, don’t overanalyze this prompt, but just think about one specific house from your past–or even your current house–and free-write about it. The house could be your childhood home or your grandmother’s house or your Great Aunt Ada’s house. Just think about a house that you…