WriteSpa – An Oasis for Writers
I hope you’re all having a wonderful summer. I’m currently in southern California, visiting family, including my daughter who attends college here, and my son who will be starting his freshman year next week. When my husband and I return home, our home will feel very different. I wrote a brief but nostalgic piece about this summer’s experience called The Yellow Leaf. If you’d like to read it, you can access it here.
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Writing Practice – Write a Fable
Fables are short stories that end with some sort of pithy moral. Often fables feature anthropomorphized animals (or even plants or elements) … Whether the character is a fox or a grape or the North Wind, it can speak, feel, and somehow exemplifies the maxim with which the tale concludes. For warm-ups, read one of wise old Aesop’s fables.
So … this week’s writing practice: write a fable. It should not be longer than a page. The characters cannot be human, but must have human characteristics. End your tale with this age-old Spanish proverb:
“How beautiful it is to do nothing, and then rest afterwards.”
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Daily Happinesses
- The pyramids at Giza
- firesparks from a bonfire
- the fragrance of roses
- playing a family game
- fresh Greek salad
- great dreams of war, and love, and queens
- seeing good friends at a function