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Memory Mapping

Memory Mapping. English 126: Creative Writing. Think of an object . . . . . . that holds some significant personal value for you.

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Memory Mapping

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  1. Memory Mapping English 126: Creative Writing

  2. Think of an object . . . • . . . that holds some significant personal value for you. • Draw, as basically as you can, the environment or the location relevant to the object. If it’s an object from your childhood, for example, draw a map of the street as you remember it from that time. (If you recall an area of land, rather than a street, draw that instead.) • Include three prominent physical features of the vicinity.

  3. In your mind, . . . • Zoom down through the roof of the building, and right into the room the object is located. • Now draw the floor plan of the room.

  4. Imagine a small, empty picture frame, or a small magnifying glass. Use it to “frame” certain details of your room or space, and write a brief description of the following: • Look in one direction. What’s there? Catalog everything you see. • What can you feel with your hands, between your toes, against your cheek, etc.? • If there are windows or clearings, pick one and write what you see out of it and what you hear while you’re looking. • Pick one or two other objects in the space, and describe the feelings they evoke in you.

  5. Locate the object in that space and write . . . • a description of how you feel strongly about it. • an analogy (a comparison) with some other experience that these feelings are like. • an explanation of why you feel strongly.

  6. Are there people in this space? • If yes, choose one and describe what that person looks like and is like. • If no, describe what it’s like to be alone there.

  7. Who cares? • Describe one major way in which this object and its story matter to you. • State one reason a reader unknown to you should be interested in this story or find it relevant?

  8. Free-write! Free-write: To write uninterrupted for a period of time, without concern for grammar, spelling, punctuation, usage or any other convention of proper writing; an invention strategy that “free associates” about a topic without concern for structure or development. In ten minutes, free-write about an experience that you remember involving your chosen object, with as many references to the memory you mapped in this exercise; try to capture a sense of the importance of what happened without actually saying what that importance is.

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