Write a personal narrative exploring your relationship with your favorite book or piece of art. What do you love about it, and why? What did you experience when you first read or saw it? How has the piece changed for you as you have either reread it or looked at it again and again over time? This exercise might make you think more deeply about something you have read, how it has affected you, and what it might mean to other readers. Perhaps you will decide to turn part of your personal narrative into a book review, or write a book review of this favorite book as well. If you do, consider submitting it to our blogging and book review categories, via the Submit button!
Activities
Daily Creativity #24: Think About Theme in a Previous Work
It’s Thursday, a day for thinking about theme. Your theme is the underlying meaning of your story, or the main idea that it explores, or the message it is trying to convey. Any or all of the elements of your story can help to convey your theme. Today, take another look at a story you have already worked on. What is its theme? Does it actually have one, or can it be strengthened? Which elements of the story convey this theme, and help to get it across to the reader? Are there any aspects of your characters, the plot, the setting, the words used in any dialogue, that could be changed to help to emphasize your theme?
Daily Creativity #23: Write a Story Inspired by a Family Photo
Look through some of your old family photos, taken before you were born. Pick an image that you feel drawn to, then try to imagine your way into the moment. What were these people thinking, doing, feeling, and why? Write a short story about it.
