Writing From Perspective Challenge (#8)
Explore where your writing can take you
For this week’s creative challenge, I want to focus on taking a step back and having some creative fun through writing. The reason I was interested in developing this particular creative challenge, is because I love to write and consider writing as my go-to creative outlet. Growing up I would often resort to doodling and creative writing to express myself and continue to use these forms of creativity (mainly writing) as a way to connect to my inner child. However, in my day-to-day life as a student, I am often in academic or work spaces engaging in structured writing and I am limited in my creativity. In addition, I notice that I find myself often reflecting on my thoughts and emotions through journaling and that could also be draining at times. I really wanted to develop a challenge that allowed me to tap into creative writing and share this challenge with y’all to be able to do the same. Therefore, the intention for this challenge is to write freely, in a way that feels authentic to you.
The main inspiration behind this creative challenge is self-guided journals that have different prompts to guide the individual’s writing. This influence is essentially what I am using to guide this challenge.
The keyword that I would like to emphasize is “guide” because the way in which you write or interpret the prompt is up to you and whether or not you would like to use some of the tips I have listed below. Have fun creating, I am excited to see where this challenge takes you!
Prompt: How would the world look like from the perspective of a non-human (i.e., inanimate objects, places, or animals)?
Here is an example that I wrote using poetry:
Free Verse Poem
* Shout out to Canva for the fancy backgrounds and images :)
Here are some tips for this challenge:
Be patient with yourself. If the writing isn’t coming to you at that moment, take time away from it and come back to it. I know sometimes I get writer's block, where I have no idea what to say. Also, you can always change the focus of your writing. For example, if at first, you were thinking of writing from a turtle’s perspective, maybe instead change it to a stuffed animal if that helps you.
If you are having trouble thinking of a perspective or a point of reference for the prompt, you can use a random subject generator to guide you during this process. You can visit the following link: https://randomwordgenerator.com/ to guide you to different persons, places, or things that you can write about.
Note: On the random word generator, select the option that uses nouns and then generate the words.
Choose any form of writing that speaks to you (i.e., poetry or short story, or any form you can think of you aren’t limited to these examples).
Example: For a poem you may choose a haiku or limerick poem
The length of your writing is not important, as long as you participated and created something new that is all that matters! It can be as short as long as you would like.
*Additional tips:
If you want to try something different, maybe change the context in which you typically write or work. If you typically write inside, maybe try writing outside. If you typically write on your computer maybe write on a piece of paper. (No pressure just throwing out ideas to add to the challenge:)) If you are feeling like you want to do anything else, you can draw a picture that is associated with your writing, similar to what you see in children’s books!
Here are some more examples that I wrote, that you can use as a reference that uses different writing formats (i.e., poem, story, etc.):
Ode Poem
Short Story
