Writing Prompts: Mrs. Dalloway - 3
This week's Writing Prompts are for very short exercises. I know everybody's busy, and I also know we don't have time for anything until we make time for it. I invite you to make time for your writing practice this weekend. How about just 15 minutes? Happy writing!
Write a reflective, philosophical paragraph (150-250 words) from the point of view of a person looking out from a train window, starting with this sentence from Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf: “It might be possible, Septimus thought, looking at England from the train window, as they left Newhaven; it might be possible that the world itself is without meaning.” Remember you may use all that comes into his view as the train moves as thought and memory triggers.
Write a character sketch (150-250 words) for the man who says the following: “now that he was quite alone, condemned, deserted, as those who are about to die are alone, there was a luxury in it, an isolation full of sublimity; a freedom which the attached can never know.”
Write a historical fiction sketch about the World War I (150-250 words). Your protagonist should be just like Septimus Warren Smith in Mrs. Dalloway, about whom Woolf writes: “He went to France to save an England which consisted almost entirely of Shakespeare's plays and Miss Isabel Pole in a green dress walking in a square.”