Daily Nourishment for August 8, 2024: Read Your Life (Again)
Daily Nourishment Read Time: 40 seconds
Pause/Prompt/Practice Time: 15 minutes
“I greet my untold stories, my unfolding story, my unloved body, my own love, my own body. I greet the things I think will happen and I say hello to everything I do not know about the day. I greet my own small world and I hope that I can meet the bigger world someday. I greet my story and hope that I can forget my story during the day, and hope that I can hear some stories, and greet some surprising stories during the long day ahead.” - Pádraig Ó Tuama
Pause.
Take a few deep breaths with a six-count inhale and a six-count exhale.
Then do a few rounds of a breath prayer/breath meditation using the following:
Inhale: Hello to everything
Exhale: I greet my story
Prompt.
Read your life. Scroll through your text messages, emails, and social media DMs and find one or two sentences from the past couple of weeks that stirs your emotions.
Practice.
Use those sentences as inspiration for a flash fiction story. It can be autofiction, inspired by your reality. But throw in something extra—include at least a splash of fiction.
If you prefer, use a friend’s or a stranger’s social media post as inspiration instead. You can use any found material as long as it stirs your emotions and invites you to go deeper in a story.
Set a timer for 10 minutes and take notes or start writing a story with no more than 1000 words.
Want More?
If you’d like some flash fiction inspiration, read some of the stories in this flash fiction roundup over at Book Riot.
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