Memory Writing Guide

📝 Submitting Your Memory

A Guide for A Memory Reconstructed (0-500words)

There’s no strict format — a few words can carry a lifetime. Use the suggestions below to help shape your memory. Submit as much or as little as feels right.

🎞️ What You Can Include

  • Main Colours
    What colours define the scene? (e.g. soft pastels, deep blues, autumnal reds)

  • Architecture / Surroundings
    Were there houses, old buildings, a quiet street, a café?

  • Landscape
    Ocean? Hills? A narrow alley or open field?

  • Nature
    Trees, flowers, wind, gardens, forests?

  • Weather / Time of Day
    Golden sunset, foggy dawn, storm rolling in, midday brightness?

These details are optional — but even fragments help shape the atmosphere.

✍️ How to Write It

Choose whichever format feels natural:

1. Scene Snapshot
A visual freeze-frame

“Streetlights flickering in the rain. My father’s car pulling up.”
“Her hands holding a coffee cup in morning light.”

2. Word Fragments
Minimal, mood-driven

“Late summer. Ocean wind. Soft blue dress. The smell of salt.”
“Train window. Long shadows. Unspoken goodbye.”

3. Simple Sentences
Direct, like a film in short cuts

“We walked by the river. He told me he was leaving.”
“We were laughing under the stars. It smelled like wood smoke.”

4. A Scene, Then the Story

Scene: “She stood by the window in pale light.”
Story: “It was the last thing she wrote before moving away.”

5. Names, Places, Times

“Hobart, Tasmania. 1998. Fog. A green bicycle by a lamppost.”
“Grandmother’s kitchen. Early morning. Birds outside.”

🧠 Memory Prompts

1. A Single Moment
What do you see in your mind?
Was there a small gesture, detail, or object?
Did the light feel warm, dim, or dreamlike?

2. Mood & Emotion
What did the moment feel like — joyful, peaceful, melancholic, unsettling?
What sounds or scents do you remember?
Was it a moment of nostalgia, connection, or quiet loss?

3. Setting & Atmosphere
What were the colours?
Were you near buildings, trees, ocean, fields?
What was the weather or time of day?

4. People in the Memory
Was someone there with you?
What stands out — their shape, movement, gesture?

(Note: Faces are never shown. Only silhouettes or abstract forms.)

5. Story Fragments
What happened just before or after?
What single detail makes this memory unforgettable?

🎬 Final Note

There’s no right way to remember.
Whether you send one line or a full story, your memory will be woven into a cinematic 10-frame artwork — soft, atmospheric, and timeless.