Walking through the archives

Revisiting past editions of The Writer's Walk

Peekaboo!

Hello again 👋🏻

I’m doing something a little different with this edition. Instead of sharing a single walking theme and writing prompt, I’ve dipped into The Writer’s Walk archive to share some of my past posts to give you a few to choose from.

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I’m dog sitting Woofy at the moment. She’s the best dog in the world most stubborn dog in the world. Maybe it’s the weather – she hates walking in the rain – but when I take her for walkies, she sits on the ground and refuses to move. People in my neighbourhood have noticed. ‘Oh look!’ they say as they point and laugh at us, ‘that’s the dog that doesn’t like to walk’. As the writer of a newsletter about walking I don’t think I’ll ever live this down 🤦🏻‍♀️

When it comes to food, Brits are creatures of habit. We eat the same meals every week, often on a loop. So this edition is all about taking a sensory stroll around a market to discover something you’ve never tried before, then channeling your inner food critic by writing a review of what you found. 5 stars, would read again.

One of my favourite ways to explore a city is to walk in zigzags – an idea I got from Stephen Graham in his bookThe Gentle Art of Tramping. This edition shows you how to meander with purpose and is paired with an exercise to write a poem about what you find during your walk, using zigzag letters to start each line of the poem.

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Sometimes we just want to stay close to home – much like Woofy these days. This edition shows you how to treat your home as an art gallery, by pretending that the everyday objects around you are, in fact, dazzling works of art. The writing prompt is to come up with a playful description of your newly discovered artworks, including inventing names for the pieces and the artists who might have created them.

I’ve collected, and disposed of, a lot of rubbish during my walks. So in this edition I invite you to use your hikes to help keep our environment free from the rubbish that ruins our views, pollutes our waterways and slowly releases toxins into our landscapes. The writing prompt shows you how to turn junk mail into poetry.

I’ve been working for myself, and working from home, for more than 13 years and one habit that helps me switch from ‘home Sarah’ to ‘work Sarah’ is to walk to work. I leave my flat, take a short walk and return to my office. In this edition I share some other tips for working from home and pair it with a reflective writing exercise.

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I hope you find something here to inspire your walks and writing. Happy walking and writing until next time – now where did I put the dog treats?

Sarah