Vitality – as writers sometimes the physical health can be neglected but for this writing exercise you should go for a walk, even if it is drizzling, put a coat on and off you go into the elements (obviously extreme weathers should be avoided!). Look around you at the landscape be it town or country.

What is vital to the way it all works? Are the streams or roads arteries? Is it healthy or unhealthy? How linked is it’s vitality to the world as a whole? To you?

Drink in the outside and feel your blood pumping and imagining the recharge of vitality on this walk.

One you are returned and have thawed hands out and maybe have a hot beverage in hand – begin to write about vitality and what it really is.