QuickWrite of the Day #36: Worlds within worlds

"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:

On a walk around my neighbourhood last week, I came across the strangest formation of mushrooms I’ve ever seen (see photo below). They looked like tiny skyscrapers in a little world of their own, and I began to imagine a world where blades of grass were as tall as trees and insects lived inside the mushrooms and went on adventures every day.

With this kind of thinking in mind, take a good look around you and think about what ‘worlds within worlds’ you can see or imagine. You might want to think about the world within a glass of water, inside a pot plant, in a painting or a photograph - anything you like. Now ask yourself: Who lives inside this world? What do they do? What does a typical day in this world look like? Spend some time asking ‘what if?’ and begin to write!

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Happy writing!