The Soul of Place by Linda Lappin

Author:Linda Lappin
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: General Fiction
Publisher: Travelers' Tales
Published: 2015-05-14T00:00:00+00:00

Choose one of the above as expressive of the soul of place of your town or neighborhood, and write a passage of 300 words. Or:

Using the point of view of one or more places listed above, write a first-person text of 50–100 words per place in the present tense.

Write a text of 50–100 words in the second person.

Use the third person and present tense to write a narrative passage set in one of the places listed.

Write a love letter or a letter of complaint of 150 words to one of the above places.

Structure a long poem or piece of writing, dedicating a line, stanza, paragraph, or chapter to a selection of the above locations.

Use any of this material as groundwork for a fragment of childhood memoir, literary travel narrative, or poem.

For advanced students: chart itineraries through a deep map based on smells, colors, sounds, garbage, or shadows.

Create an imaginary town or neighborhood for a work of fiction. Identify several environments chosen from above for the setting of key scenes and sketch them out.

Class project for younger writers: make a deep map combining several sites and places, accompanied by drawings or photographs. This also makes for an interesting scrapbook or journal theme.

Write a postcard narrative from one of the above places such as a hospital, morgue, library, all-night café, prison, haunted house, pub.

Write a quest narrative using one of the above, for example, bus station, barbershop, funeral home, bookshop, Asian grocery.

Study the graffiti in a neighborhood and write about it. Or use graffiti as a structural element in a short piece of fiction. Combine graffiti with a postcard narrative.

Keep a street haunting diary for two weeks.

Visit several sacred sites in the area and write about the experience either as a flâneur or a pilgrim.

Combine a pilgrimage and a postcard narrative or deep map.

Organize some writing time in a few of the above locations, like a museum, art gallery, skating rink, train station, hardware store. See what stories are going on, what atmospheres intrigue you.

Write about getting locked in or lost in any of the above places.

Make a desire map of something that appeals to you and follow it. Write about your experience.

Find a cemetery that isn’t for people and write about it (auto-demolition, pet cemetery, etc.).

Write about some curious place names you discover.

Take part in a collective event and write about it.

Write a travel essay about a religious or cultural festival as a pilgrim or flâneur.

Let yourself be inspired by the ideas of hypertime or deep travel and write a short essay.

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