Three Otherwordly Writing Prompts from Kirsty Logan
This week’s prompt is from Kirsty Logan, a writer based in Scotland whose debut novel is The Gracekeepers (Penguin), a lyrical story of a world covered in water.
Choose something you think you cannot live without: food, oxygen, light; or your child, the internet, your hands. Now write about a world where everyone has adapted to live without that thing.
Choose a strong emotion you have felt recently: grief, heartbreak, joy, confusion, despair, shame, love. Now write five ways that emotion could manifest itself in the real world (perhaps a heart that could be rented and returned for each new lover; a compulsion to eat lightbulbs when the world feels dark; living, breathing sorrows that must be drowned in the bath). Now choose your favourite and write about it.
Choose a set of binaries such as man/woman, land/sea, security/freedom, or wildness/domesticity. Now write about a character trying to exist between the two.
Real Pants was founded in 2015 as a website about literature and the new literary community. If you have an article you'd like us to consider, please see our submission guidelines.
Latest posts by Real Pants (see all)
- Half Revealing, and Half Concealing the Soul: Barrett Warner Interviews Cassie Pruyn - October 25, 2017
- This Thing Called Thunderclap Helped Me Reach 1 Million People About My Book (Not Really, But Kind Of) - April 25, 2017
- 5 Poems by Michael Glaviano - February 6, 2017
