Get Writing: Tell Me Your Earliest Memory And I’ll Tell You Who You Are
by Laura Valeri
Laura Valeri’s Get Writing prompt offers a game for understanding images—and, perhaps, ourselves
Laura Valeri’s Get Writing prompt offers a game for understanding images—and, perhaps, ourselves
When I was in high school, I took a playwriting class, and we’d sit there–all of us sixteen, seventeen, eighteen–reading our work aloud around the table. Our teacher, who was about thirty, would give us pointers: that speech is clunky; this character hasn’t said anything for ten minutes. But sometimes he wouldn’t say a word: he would look at us, hold his palm in front of his face for a moment, then let it drop to the table, as if he were offering us an invisible treat. We didn’t really understand this Zen gesture at the time, but I can […]
