🏚️ THE HOUSES OF ELSEWHERE A 12-Part Imaginative Letter-Writing Series

Series concept: Somewhere beyond the ordinary world are houses that should not exist.

A house that moves while you sleep. A house beneath a lake. A house with doors that lead somewhere impossible. A house that remembers everyone who has ever lived inside it.

For each swap, you will write a letter as though you have discovered, visited, lived in, or somehow become connected to one of these mysterious houses.

Your letter can be fictional, autobiographical, or a mixture of both. You can write as yourself, as a character, or even as someone who has been living in the house for years.

Include details about what you see, hear, discover, feel, and experience.

🚂 THE HOUSE THAT MOVES

Theme: A house that never stays in the same place.

Imagine waking up one morning and discovering that your house has moved.

Yesterday it stood in your hometown. Today it sits beside an ocean you've never seen. Tomorrow it might appear in the middle of a snowy forest, on a mountain, or somewhere that doesn't exist on any map.

✉️ Your Letter

Write a letter to your swap partner describing your experience living in The House That Moves.

Tell them:

Where the house was when you first discovered it?

Where it has taken you?

What causes the house to move?

Whether you can control where it goes?

What the rooms look like?

What happens to your belongings when the house moves?

The strangest place you've ever woken up?

Where you secretly hope the house takes you next?

Whether you would ever want the house to stop moving?

Fun twist: Include a list of 5 places the house has visited and one sentence about what happened at each.

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