Warren C. Longmire

Epistle for the Interior Gap
1. Find a tangible object in your living space that represents your relationship to:
- masculinity
- desire
- faith
- ambition
- or inheritance
2. Write down at least 10 sensory details that speak to why that object represents that particular for you concept.
3. Assume you are writing a letter from you to the idea your object represents (or from that object to you). Answer the following questions:
-Where did the object come from?
- What is completely understood in the
relationship between you and the object?
- What remains mysterious?
- What circumstances led to writing this letter?
- What is the core emotion (or set of emotions) that
defines the relationship?
4. Write an epistle based on your answers that lives within the object's details.
Examples:
Donika Kelly | Dear ____
Rachel McKibbiens | Letter from my Heart To My Brain
James K. Baster | Letter From The Mountains
- masculinity
- desire
- faith
- ambition
- or inheritance
2. Write down at least 10 sensory details that speak to why that object represents that particular for you concept.
3. Assume you are writing a letter from you to the idea your object represents (or from that object to you). Answer the following questions:
-Where did the object come from?
- What is completely understood in the
relationship between you and the object?
- What remains mysterious?
- What circumstances led to writing this letter?
- What is the core emotion (or set of emotions) that
defines the relationship?
4. Write an epistle based on your answers that lives within the object's details.
Examples:
Donika Kelly | Dear ____
Rachel McKibbiens | Letter from my Heart To My Brain
James K. Baster | Letter From The Mountains