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Prompt Yourself: Weekly Prompts February 10–16 (Migration)

Writing prompts to tempt your muses

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Welcome to Week 7 of Prompt Yourself 2025 at Promptly Written.

This month, upwards of 1.2 million wildebeest and 300,000 zebra will traverse 800 km of the Serengeti in search of water and food. This yearly event is known as the Great Migration; with up to 1,000 animals occupying a square kilometre, the massive herds can be seen from space.

Unlike the natural paths of wildebeest, birds, and other migratory animals, human migration is limited by legal and social barriers. As natural and manmade disasters make populated areas newly unlivable, we will see more climate refugees in the years to come — to say nothing of people attempting to leave war-torn and politically unstable regions of the world.

I’m writing these prompts a few weeks in advance, while devastating fires in California are driving Americans from their homes. The juxtaposition of American refugees being welcomed into neighbouring states while certain politicians continue to vilify refugees, asylum seekers, and migrant workers from “elsewhere” has gotten me thinking a lot about movement, migration, and the difference between an “immigrant” and an “expat.”