Weekly Freewriting Challenge Prompt # 7
A Physical Process
This is the seventh of 12 weekly writing prompts specifically designed to use with the technique of freewriting. For instructions on how to freewrite click here, or you can just plough on as follows:
- don’t pre-plan
- write for 10 minutes
- don’t stop writing to think or read back
The main thing is to keep writing for the whole 10 minutes (or 5 if you are new to freewriting).
Writing continuously is far more important than sticking to the topic of the prompt so, if you go off on a tangent, that’s absolutely fine: just keep going!
Here’s the seventh prompt:-
Hello Freewriter!
This week’s prompt was inspired by Ernest Hemingway’s The Old Man and the Sea, in which a fishing trip is described such close and moving detail that it becomes a story about something much bigger.
In a ten-minute freewrite, describe a physical process that you have done many times such as baking, carpentry, a household task, or anything that involves working with physical materials. Give the procedures you use in step-by-step detail, dwelling on what feelings arise at the possibility of failure at the task, or pride in doing it well.
