New! LIT Monthly Writing Prompt: April Edition

Happy poetry month everyone!

Here at LIT we are starting a new series of monthly writing prompts. This month’s prompt is from our nonfiction editor Vicky Oliver:

Write about a time when you were lost and how you found your way home.

The hero’s journey is sometimes a parable on the transformation of being: old habits and emotional reactions that are shed out of necessity as they become stumbling blocks to the journey. The old ways are replaced by new strengths or new ideas that have been germinating out of sight, waiting to come into play as fresh discoveries in a moment of crisis, propelling us forward into the light of knowing and being.

Also, since we are in the season of resurrection, being lost and found has an interesting juxtaposition to death and rebirth. Maybe add a twist on how your journey of being lost changed you: what was lost, what was found.

Happy writing!