Weekly Prompt: Wilderness Within

Where can you take us where you feel the wilderness within?

We’ve thought about the wild places that we have lost, places of our youth that are no more. Like sands slowly drifting away.

Then we wrote of those that we’ve searched for and found. Places to learn or to return. Hidden in the cold dark places far from our cities. Or deep in the remaining forests of our world.

Of trees that grew and stood the test of time. Or places where magic still lives.

We cast our minds outward far and wide and thought on how we could remake the wilderness on this planet or the next.

Whether through loss of power, science or violence.

Now we turn inward to consider the Wilderness Within

Conditions of life, or a place, in which the spirit feels desolate.

Think about those moments when you stand there, and feel so empty you can hear the tumbleweeds in your heart skidding across the hard-packed sands.

Or your character find themselves in conditions that conspire to turn them introspective? That knock them on their ass and make them rethink life, the universe and everything.

Giving them that middle-distance stare, that thousand-yard glare, Clint Eastwood was so good at.

How do they come back from the ledge?

What is happening, why are they feeling that? What are they looking at?

This week you have 50 words exactly to tell us a story that gives us an inkling about this place you find yourself.

• Use the sorting tag “Wilderness Within”
• No using the prompt name in your title (it’s confusing).
• If you need to do a quick review of the submission guidelines to note the formatting details.

I have to give credit for this week’s prompt to Mark Farrar

I was stumped after the first three and he shared a handy little tool (Word Web Pro) and the results it outputted for ‘wilderness’.

This is a good segue as next month Mark is holding the reins and guiding us through his first theme and prompts.

Now you’re a good class, please don’t eat the substitute teacher alive.

I’ll be back in April with a sensational theme 😉 and a possible collaboration with a musician friend of mine to make the second-week prompt truly special.