The Writers’ Nook is a place where we, as a group, can provide a safe and positive environment in which to encourage one another and hone our own writing skills.
Harnessing Your Imagination
Imagination is the engine that drives creativity. Imagination is a manifestation of our memory and enables us to scrutinize our past and construct hypothetical future scenarios that do not yet but could maybe exist. How else to explain this ability to experience another persons’ emotions, their world and point of view, or to take an imaginary walk in their shoes?
“The power of a writer is that he is a god of sorts. He can create his own worlds and populate them with his own people, all by the powers of his imagination. It’s the closest a man can come close to the gods. No wonder the most successful writers are considered immortals.”
― Bangambiki Habyarimana, Pearls Of Eternity
This meeting was held via zoom at 11:00 a.m. on Wednesday, April 6th, 2022 Blind Bay Time (aka Vancouver Time). If you would like to join our group, please contact us. Your first meeting is free.
Your Challenge
Your Challenge before our next meeting on April 20th is to set up a twitter account and start using it. We hope that you will share some of your 280 character stories here with us, OR
Write a story, poem or imaginary newspaper article using this scenario prompt: Animals have decided to take up against humans because we won’t stop eating them. How will this war end? Will humans ever stop eating meat?
Responses
And Then What? by Phillis Jeffrey on the scenario “humans vs animals”
Survival of the Fittest by Shirley Bigelow DeKelver
280-character tweeted stories by Kevin Gooden
Phillis “And Then What?”—Excellent. Love the dual thought thread… He’s hungry/We’re hungry… Get the gun/Call the pack. So much literature focuses on “hungry wolves” when reality is humans are the worst predators on the planet. Also admire the line “A cacophony of red noise”. The final two paragraphs are both thought-provoking and (to me) somewhat humorous. Ending both paragraphs with the title was appealing, invoking thoughts of inevitability and endlessness.
Shirley “Survival of the Fittest”—Nice you went with the animal viewpoint—I always enjoy that type of story and yours was no exception. I don’t believe all the capitalization you’ve used is necessary. Not sure wolves would be against eating meat, but in the context of the prompt it worked. Enjoyed the mustering of the sides for battle (LOL), the growing seed, and especially the final line.