CREATIVE ADVENTURES — 31
Imagine You Can’t Stay At Home For A Week
Writing Prompt
Imagine that you cannot stay at home for more than a week, because you have a job that requires you to travel constantly. Essentially, this is the opposite of what we have been doing during the pandemic lockdown period. You need to constantly travel and stay at hotels.
Please respond to the following questions:
- Choose five cities you would like to travel to. Remember that you will work which means you will not have much time to enjoy the cities you visit. You will have about an extra day or two after your work. Which cities do you choose? What will you be doing there? Create itineraries for each city.
- As you are constantly traveling, you need to pack up smartly. Prepare a checklist of the items you must carry around you. What are the three unusual things you would like to take with you? Why?
- Which hotel room you stayed in was the most beautiful? Which one was the most creative one? Which one was the most comfortable? Which one was the worst one? Which one was the weirdest? What are the three top things you consider in choosing a hotel room? Write a story that takes place in a hotel room.
- Write about your most memorable travel. What happened? Why was it so memorable? Write it down as a story.
- Write about a travel experience where things have gone wrong. What happened? Why did you have trouble? Write it down as a story.
- Imagine that you end up in a country and a destination that you know nothing about. Which country? Which destination? How did you end up there? What do you do? How do you cope without knowing the language? Write your story.
- Imagine you are at the airport. If you could go anywhere, where would you go? Why? Which destination would be unique?
- Airports, hotels, cafes, and places with wireless networks are all ‘white spaces’. They are locations of liminality and transition. Write a story about a global nomad who spends most of his or her life in these spaces.
- Imagine that you are stuck in an airport for a week. Remember the movie “Terminal”. Sir Alfred Mehran was stuck in Paris airport and lived in the airport terminal for 18 years. Write a story about how you are stuck in the airport for one week. Why are you stuck there? What do you do? How do you cope? How do you feel? What do you learn?
