Quickwrite #74: The One Thing You’d Save

“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:

Today’s QuickWrite is inspired by Linda Sue Park’s beautifully illustrated The One Thing You’d Save, which poetically explores a range of different different answers to the following question: ‘What’s one object you’d save from your house in the event of an emergency?’  Check out the front cover and an excerpt from the text below:

Drawing on this as inspiration, if you could choose, what’s one object YOU would save from YOUR house in the event of an emergency? Assume that all your loved ones and pets are safe and sound in this scenario. What object would you save and why is it worth saving? What makes it so valuable to you? Feel free to express your response in any way you like, as a:

• List of reasons 

• Personal reflection 

• Poem

• Drawing of the object and an explanation

• Personal essay 

• Story

• Letter to someone/an object 

• Piece of dialogue from the point of view of the object

…or anything else you can think of. Have fun with it and write!

Want more Quickwrite topics? Check out the slide deck here, or see it in presentation mode on your Resources page.

Happy writing!