QuickWrite of the Day #62: ‘That’s the Thing About…’
"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:
John Green’s novel The Fault in Our Stars drops some beautiful truth-bombs on its readers, often in the form of simple one-liners like this:
“That’s the thing about pain. It demands to be felt.”
Using this sentence as a guide, craft your own ‘That’s the thing about…’ sentence on a topic of your choice: an emotion, a person, an idea, a place —anything! Next, use this as inspiration to write. What thoughts or feelings follow this sentence that you’d like to explore through writing? See an example below:
