QuickWrite of the Day #34: What do you hope for?

"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:

Poet Emily Dickinson once described hope as a “thing with feathers/that perches in the soul.” Writer Rebecca Solnit captured it as an “embrace of the unknown” and a “power you don’t have to throw away.” Author Laini Taylor in ‘Daughter of Smoke and Bone’ puts it plainly: “when you know what you hope for most and hold it like a light within you, you can make things happen.”

With this in mind, what do you hope for most of all at the moment? What does it make you think, feel or dream of? What does hoping for it make you want to do? You might even consider what life would be like if you didn’t hope. Whichever direction you choose, write about it!

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Happy writing!