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When You Leave Your Desk Behind…

A Vagabond Voices writing and living prompt

Photo by author: what happens when I leave my desk for inspiration — 20 minutes walk…

What would happen… if you stepped away from the swirling thoughts, the words that won’t fly from your pen, the dreams that linger and sulk far off like clouds ready to rain on someone else?

What if you pulled your prickling, sleeping flesh and moved, what if… your mind also went for a walk, and while you weren’t even looking, new thoughts, new words, new inspiration, rose underfoot like the summer blades reaching for you from the warm earth?

My invitation to you: Get out, away from the desk, wander — near, far, it doesn’t matter…

Places surprise us, people surprise us.

It is beyond language to describe what happens when you mix wandering and writing.

New ideas, new inspirations…

Maybe you’ll travel (finally!) after staying put too long…

Maybe you’ll go down the street or across the field and notice something you never saw before.

Or just take a different route to work, get off the bus stop a little early…

Go out and just look. Maybe take a photo, do a doodle. Bring it back.

Publish it here or tag me in. I can’t wait to see where you wander…

Vagabond Storieses from our Community:

by jenine bsharah baines

by Joe Váradi

by Mary McGrath

And this month, I wrote one of my own:

A few stories by authors I follow and enjoy — and who know how to step away from their desks:

Here are a few stories I found by writers who know how to leave their desks, wander, find inspiration and come back…

by Sylvia Wohlfarth

by Carlos Garbiras

by Erika Burkhalter

By J.S. Lender

Are you a Vagabond Too? Write with us.

This is a space for wandering souls. For multilingual writers. For people who have lived in more than one place…and continue to do so in their hearts.

If you’d like to write for Vagabond Voices, feel free to get in touch here with your Medium handle. Let me know a bit about yourself, why you think your work would be a good fit. And let me know if you have a story or draft in mind.

If you’d like to keep up to speed on additional writing prompts, book club picks, book chats, and other live events, you can sign up for the newsletter:

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