Today's Teachers Write! prompt is a quick-write about describing a favorite place.
Since I've chosen to write with fountain pen and paper for now, it's not a simple thing to copy-and-paste whatever I've written for exercises like this. But that's also good, since I don't think that I want everything I'm writing for practice to be 'out there in the world' through this blog. And since it's on physical paper, it takes a little more effort to make the strikeouts and restarted sentences disappear than it would if I were writing on the computer. I know that when it comes time to copy down some worth-saving practice work into Word, I'll edit and rewrite as I go.
Some bits of my favorite place paragraph, after rewriting to include more sensory details as led by Kate in the writing prompt:
"As the high school day winds down and the last locker-slams echo in the hallways, I can still sense my students' pathways through the library today..." (and I changed one word as I typed this from my handwritten page, because it sounds better. Told ya.) "...the concentrated essence of favorite black hoodie worn too many days in a row..."
Most of my WIP will be set in school, probably junior high, and even some time spent in the library there. Big surprise!
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