When We Were Small

This photograph of father and child exploring gently the world of white wonder fires the nostalgia gland in many people even if it is some half remembered reference to A.A. Milne’s stories and poems rather than our own lives. What memories or feelings does this image provoke in you?

Do you identify with the father or the child? Neither but have always wanted that sort of connection? What sort of discoveries and adventures will they have?

Think on the snow – how it feels, the rough wind and the taught skin, the smell it tingled your nostrils with. Did you get hot chocolate and toasted tea buns?

As you write try to build the scene up, the feelings, the sights, the sounds, take your reader on a magical adventure.