This week’s writing prompt is:
LETTERS AND DIARIES
Do you keep a diary? Or perhaps you used to when you were a teenager. You could create a character who has a big secret and only shares it with their diary. Did you used to write letters to a pen pal? Or a family member who lived far away? You might like to write a love story told through letters, or an unhappy child at boarding school could send letters home to their parents. There are all sorts of possibilities with letters and diaries.
You don’t have to share your work, but I always enjoy seeing what you come up with if the prompt gives you inspiration. Your last prompt was BOOKS. A couple of you shared your work.
Ahhhh, books! My books are all read on my iPad in my Libby app through my local library, but I used to have a pretty good collection. When we moved into the motor home, we sold or stored everything, and I gave away almost all of my physical books except for my Stephen King collection and a few others. It is precious to me anyway! I finally gave away all my albums I’d been hanging onto or sold some of them but albums aren’t worth much anymore so I didn’t feel the need to hold onto them.
Books are harder to let go of. Who knows? Stephen King may become super valuable in the future someday!
Books. I have so many; I counted them once and when I got to 1000 I gave up. Many were my hubby’s, trains, planes and bicycles, autobiographies, war and history. Stories about Rommel or Rome.
My books are science fiction or fact, mysteries, art and illustration. We shared a love of JRR Tolkien and Ursula K Le’Guin and other writers such as Terry Pratchett.
All our books are intermingled, it’s hard to see where ones obsession ends and the other starts. Books are a library, some I’ve read over and over again, sometimes overnight, finishing the last page as the sun rises. Others I’ve savoured over months. Some bored me, but I still wanted to finish them.
But now? Can I let some go, like puppies to a new home? I might never read them. If anyone knows of a book charity for schools let me know?
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Esther Chilton 
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