Contentment is a calm,
quiet kind of happiness. It's sitting down with a hot cup of tea to reread
a favourite book.
1. Take a moment and
recall a time in your life when you were content. How old were you? Where
were you? Who was with you? What about this time made you content? Describe
the memory using specific details. Recreate it on the page. Be sure that
you take the reader with you as you revisit it. Write in the first person.
2. Using what you wrote
above, change it into fiction. Change the significant details. If your
memory was in summer, make it winter. If you were ten, now you're 40. Use
different years and names. Write in the third person. Do not change the
emotion or the feel of the piece. Keep the exerperience of contentment
while chaning the environment.
3. Choose one of the
following settings and, using concrete details, write a paragraph that
combines the setting and details to evoke contentment in the reader.
A honeymoon
A snowy day
First grade
A homecoming