Reena’s Exploration Challenge #125

Welcome to Women's Week! Do the rest of the weeks in a year do not belong to women? 🙂 They sure do, but I choose women and womanhood as the theme for this week's prompt. PROMPT #125 Reena's Exploration Challenge #125 The image and quotes are indicative, not restrictive. You have full freedom to write … Continue reading Reena’s Exploration Challenge #125

Library of Imagination

More tantalising than love, more fertile than soil, more productive than the best consultant - Imagination will go with me. There will be time to discover if the afterworld meets my thoughts or not, and there will be more time to choose where do I go next. It is what I have not achieved that … Continue reading Library of Imagination

Reena’s Exploration Challenge #124

Welcome back to another week! I had a tough time getting a pesky fly out of the house today. In the process, I came to admire her incorrigible optimism. Here’s a poem by Lisel Mueller IMMORTALITYIn Sleeping Beauty’s castlethe clock strikes one hundred yearsand the girl in the tower returns to the world.So do the … Continue reading Reena’s Exploration Challenge #124

Reena’s Exploration Challenge #123

And so here we go – 1,2,3 …. into another week of the Exploration Challenge. Welcome back! PROMPT #123 Use or don’t use one or more of the following oxymorons in your piece silent screamopen secretdisgustingly deliciousawfully luckyunbiased opinion You may choose not to use the word, but let the meaning reflect in your piece. … Continue reading Reena’s Exploration Challenge #123

Reena’s Exploration Challenge #122

Reena's Exploration Challenge #122 Time flies. We are already in the seventh week of 2020. I've been spending time with houseguests, battling network failures after 9 pm, working weekeneds, travelling and taking compulsive blogging breaks. Welcome to the roller coaster ride with me! I find my creativity getting dimmed at times, but the desire to … Continue reading Reena’s Exploration Challenge #122

Reena’s Exploration Challenge #121

Reena's Exploration Challenge Welcome back, and thanks for the patience! WEEKLY PROMPT #121 The words to inspire your writing this week are The last book on Planet Earth It is not necessary that the words appear in your piece. It is your option and discretion. It is a broad theme, a framework for the thought … Continue reading Reena’s Exploration Challenge #121

Reena’s Exploration Challenge #120

Reena's Exploration Challenge Welcome back to this space, friends! PROMPT The theme this week is RHETORICAL QUESTION Use the words in your piece, allude to it in some way, or include the figure of speech in your writing. Have a ball! Can writers write? As usual, there is no restriction on length or format of … Continue reading Reena’s Exploration Challenge #120

Temple of Thought

A temple reminds me of the Stoddard Temple, which Ayn Rand’s protagonist  Howard Roark built in her epic novel, Fountainhead. It was flat, it was spread out, it was meant to give humans the space to rise.  Then, I came across theories about reverberation of positive energy inside a dome-shaped structure. It explained why places … Continue reading Temple of Thought

Reena’s Exploration Challenge #119

Welcome back! I’ve been travelling, and the book currently in hand is “Everything is F---ed” by Mark Manson. I liked his earlier book “The Subtle Art of Not getting F---ed” too. The contents are weighing heavily on my mind. PROMPT 119 Imagine two sides/perspectives/characters/mind-sets with the following names: Thinking BrainFeeling Brain Write about how these … Continue reading Reena’s Exploration Challenge #119

Reena’s Exploration Challenge #118

Welcome to getting a little more entrenched in the new decade or the new year! Does it already feel stale, or is sparking new hopes within you? As you read these lines, I will be enjoying the opulence of an Indian wedding in a holiday resort. Another couple will enter an uncertain world, feeling certain … Continue reading Reena’s Exploration Challenge #118