Crackleswitch...
.... is not a word, I made it up!
I will be publishing a writing prompt a week suitable for memoir and fiction (including poetry). Writing prompts have been set up as a separate section in my Substack newsletter. You can unsubscribe to this section, and you will continue to receive the flash fiction pieces I publish.
Matt Kendrick has written a wonderful piece about creating new words: Conjuring new words - by Matt Kendrick (substack.com) where he says, ‘new words are being invented all the time.’ So why not a word, crackleswitch, that tries to capture a sense of the mood when things are about to change (or switch) or are in the middle of changing. In the first instance there is a sense of anticipation, a crackle in the air. In the second instance there would be cracks in our lives from the change.
What does it feel like to change and transform? what does water feel like (as water) as it changes from liquid to ice and back again? Or as it is boiled in a kettle and becomes steam?
What does a werewolf feel as it changes from human to wolf?
What does a tiny seed feel at the start of spring as it warms up and transforms into a carrot or a flower or a tree?
Imagine you are an object or person that is about to undergo a change (or is in the middle of a change). What sensations are you experiencing? How is your body or form changing? How are the people around you responding to this change? to you?
Write a poem or piece of flash fiction from a first-person point of view exploring this transformation.
If you are writing memoir / nonfiction, write about a time when you witnessed a transformation in someone else. What did you notice? what prompted the change? how was the person’s world different after the transformation?
For both fiction and nonfiction prompts the change doesn’t have to be positive.
Love this!