Great exercise! When I read the writing prompt, I imagined a White woman walking her baby down the street of an suburban neighborhood in the US, the baby, in its stroller, looking at a neighbor's dog. The prompt immediately made me think of the history of the United States or Australia (missed New Zealand, though).
I think it is really useful to make us aware or remind us of how we live through destruction, or we have even benefitted from the destruction of past worlds, without necessarily even being aware of it. And this will play into the destructions of environmental/climate change too.
I hadn't really thought about how that fear actually blocks creativity. But that's certainly true. And your exercises for getting through that to envision worlds is nicely done!
Great exercise! When I read the writing prompt, I imagined a White woman walking her baby down the street of an suburban neighborhood in the US, the baby, in its stroller, looking at a neighbor's dog. The prompt immediately made me think of the history of the United States or Australia (missed New Zealand, though).
I think it is really useful to make us aware or remind us of how we live through destruction, or we have even benefitted from the destruction of past worlds, without necessarily even being aware of it. And this will play into the destructions of environmental/climate change too.
I hadn't really thought about how that fear actually blocks creativity. But that's certainly true. And your exercises for getting through that to envision worlds is nicely done!
Glad you liked it.
Seems you know your history too well to go full apocalypse with that prompt! Unless we're counting US suburbia as apocalyptic ;-)