“Without me, they can’t write the words”

At the recent Power of Words conference, I had the joy of attending Exodus Brownlow’s pre-conference workshop. She gave us three objects, all having to do with writing, and each coming with their own prompt: a pen, a page, and a paper clip.

We were to write from the point of view of the object, as her workshop was called, ““Writing Strictly from The Imagination: Giving a Voice to Those Literally Without and How Deeply Sitting with the Inanimate Teaches Us the True Complexities About The World.”

I chose the pen. The Pen’s prompt was, “Without me, they can’t write their words.”

Through several timed periods of freewriting, I was amazed how speaking from the object could bring up so many connections between past and present, and indeed, reveal complexities about the world as Exodus states.

Read my writing from the workshop here, on TLA Network’s blog.

And follow Exodus everywhere: she’s a generous, kind and soulful spirit, whose writing is delightful and surprising.