FREE RANGE
Fantastic beast
Let your imagination take flight in these unicorn-themed creative writing exercises from
Jenny Alexander
When it feels as if the walls are closing in on us in real life, we can always escape in imagination, and we do it naturally, without even noticing, daydreaming possible futures for ourselves, playing with different versions of the past.
So, fire up your imagination and go full fantasy with this month’s free-range writing, because April 9th is National Unicorn Day. Be playful, and enjoy your playfulness, because that is the essence of the first draft, whatever you are writing. As Brenda Ueland says in her book on becoming a writer, you shouldn’t come to it feeling like a famous poet pontificating on a mountain-top, but ‘like a child in kindergarten, happily stringing beads.’