QuickWrite of the Day #39: In the voice of an inanimate object
"Writing can be used as a vehicle to express ourselves as we negotiate the journey through our lives” (Gallagher, 2011: p. 24)
QuickWrite of the Day:
In QuickWrite of the Day #35, we invited you to write a letter to an object, using Kobe Bryant’s letter-poem ‘Dear Basketball’ as an example to get your ideas flowing. Now, imagine if an inanimate object could talk or write back to you?
With this in mind, select an inanimate object. It could be something in your room, under your bed, a beloved object, a forgotten object, an old toy, a favourite book, an overused object —anything you like! Think about what life might be like from the perspective of your object. What kind of voice would this object have if it could talk or write to you? What would it say? Have a go at writing this down and see where it takes you! See the following excerpt from Drew Daywelt and Oliver Jeffers’ book The Day the Crayons Quit for an example of this kind of writing, from the perspective of a purple crayon:
