Dear fellow writer,
Welcome to Day 5 of your 30-day Writing with Pleasure challenge!
Your challenge today is to write outside: literally outside if you can, or you can take yourself outside in your mind. Once your imagination has taken you beyond the four walls of whatever building you’re in, who knows where else your mind will take you!
If you want to time your writing today, here’s a fun timer to try.
Thanks for showing up to write, and I’ll see you tomorrow.
Ngā mihi mahana (warm greetings),
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I have written (or, at least, I've worked on my paper) in a new place: my recently reorganised (shared) home office. It is snowy outside and almost as cold in this office.
One of my many favourite places is Island Bay, here in Wellington, NZ. The Maori / Te Reo name is, Tapu Te Ranga, which translates to Sacred Rising. We have pods of dolphins and a while ago a Southern Right Whale came to hang out in front of the island. The beach and the sidewalk were crammed with people, mesmerised. I got onto pondering how other sentient beings view us, and hope they see us as predominantly good humans...