Wordstruck - How objects breathe life into your story

If you have one of those days when you sit down and don’t know what to write, then find an object and write about that. Ideally choose something meaningful. Or quirky. Or precious.

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This exercise works for non-fiction and fiction.

For travel memoir, pick an object that is well-travelled. Your battered rucksack, favourite red shoes, that special mood ring you bought in the Istanbul bazaar. Or maybe a smooth pebble you picked up from a Sicilian beach or a carved Balinese figurine.

Then spend six...