Creative writing activity. Week 1 Selective Memory.

'If you can look back on your life with contentment, you have one of man's most precious gifts- selective memory.' Jim Fiebig

This is especially true of family circumstances or incidents when onlookers provide witness statements.

• Think of an incident. This can be drawn from real life or completely fictional.
• You can be an observer or a participant. What did you do, see or say?
• Someone else was present either as an observer or as a participant. How would that person describe the incident?

Describe the scene including both people's viewpoints.
You can use speech or third person reporting- prose or poetry.

Jeannette Ayton: Jan. 2008