A ‘QuickWrite a Day’ #2: New eyes
""Writing can be used as a vehicle to express ourselves as we negotiate the journey through our lives” (Gallagher, 2011: p. 24)
Today’s QuickWrite of the Day:
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French writer Marcel Proust once wrote that “The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.” Have you seen anything with ‘new eyes’ recently?
You could write about something that mattered a few weeks ago which doesn’t seem as important today, or vice versa - anything you like! If you need inspiration, check out this excerpt from John Marsden’s Tomorrow When the War Began :
“…I was dreaming of an ice cream I’d chucked out from the fridge at home a week earlier, because it had too many little ice crystals sticking to it. I’d have given anything to have had it back in my hand. I couldn’t believe how casually I’d thrown it away.”
