Memory Mosaic: A New Years Eve Free Writing Session
It's the 31st December and today's theme is 'Mosaic', let's put some poetic pieces together to see what the essence of this year has evoked for us, and what the next year holds.
Hello everyone!
I hope you enjoy this free writing session I’ve put together to steer us wholeheartedly into our 2025 flourishing writing lives.
Please note that clicking on the video may open a separate window to watch the video via YouTube so I’d recommend reading the rest of the post before you begin the writing session.
The video includes:
A little introduction to who I am and what this writing session is about
A cozy poem I wrote just for you, during the Promptvent Challenge
A writing exercise dedicated to finding the poetic essence of each month for 2024 and gathering them into a mosaic of memory
A free write on the images that appeared to you during the previous exercise
A journaling exercise to celebrate your writing wins this past year
A journaling exercise to bring your future wins from the 31st December 2025 into reality
The announcement of our Promptvent challenge winner who will receive a free 10 minute guided visualization titled ‘The Writer’s Coat’ to help them embody the writer they were born to be, and an upgrade to a years free subscription to Plant Your Poetry - including the new Plant Your Poetry 2025 Prompt Calendar with 365 original prompts curated by me and sent monthly to their inbox.
The opportunity to upgrade to a paid subscriber and receive 365 days of prompts in 2025, including a monthly writing session with me and a thriving community of writers working their way through the prompts, click here for more info.
I hope you enjoy the writing session and that 2025 is the year that your writing life blossoms. The writing session is available with captions (if captions aren’t showing just click the square box with ‘cc’ in the center).
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This is my take on my year for Louise’s writing exercise
I am learning to see in the dark again, just as it’s beginning to get lighter.
You are always with me, though you are far away
I am at last with my kin, it’s been far too long
Immobility couldn’t take away the joy of Abba Voyage
Apple blossom delights my eyes and melts my heart
Watching the sun go down over the sea in Soller with the ones I love most
I could listen to the Spanish mountains speaking in colours forever
Celebrating thirty nine years married to my best friend
I can’t believe my little boy is twenty nine years old, so lovely to have him with me for a short while
The days grow short and dark but I am warmly embraced in autumn colours
Another birthday is here. Getting older is not so bad when I get to spend it with my daughter
Success, I will be able to walk again free from pain. December came and went and left behind enough love keep me warm through these cold dark days
Thank you Louise, that was amazing. Have a very happy New Year 🥳💓