Wild Mind

I'm sharing with you a 'Writing Map'. These are writing prompts I receive each week. The person who sends them says:

"Living in lockdown can be overwhelming. It's a strange mixture of not a lot happening and too much going on: the news, the next meal, the next Zoom meeting, WhatsApp call, nap, bake, repeat, repeat. Finding time and feeling motivated to write are hard to come by. Sometimes all we need is to decide to pause. To sit and write. No agenda. No narrative. Start with what's going on in our head. Transcribe that hubbub! It's a way to decompress but also an insight into what a mind looks like.

Writing Card #18 is an invitation to check-in with what's going on in your head. It's a way of setting these times down on paper, something to come back to when all this is over. You could experiment with changing what you've written into a third-person narrative. Simply replace "I" with "she" or "he" or even "we"! Gradually tweak and rewrite your text so that a character begins to take shape."