Preface: this is not a review! Skip to the end for writing prompts. Unless you don’t want Wuthering Heights spoilers… then maybe skip the post altogether.
Last Sunday, I headed to the local cinema to see one of the must-watch movies of 2026: Wuthering Heights. Though after seeing many harsh critiques about the film online I was slightly nervous that I’d wasted my gift voucher on it. I shouldn’t have worried about that. It was one of the best films I’ve seen in a long time.
In saying that, I don’t want to minimise the issue that Heathcliff was played by a white male when he is so clearly written as dark-skinned in the book. I wholeheartedly agree that the decision changes the tone of the story. But I couldn’t help but love it anyway.
I’ll be honest with you… my mum bought me a copy of Emily Brontë’s novel last year and I still haven’t opened it. This might give me the nudge I need to start it, though. I’m still thinking about the story days on and have the desire to experience the original version.
Have you seen it yet? Have you read the book? What are your thoughts on the controversy surrounding the adaption by Emerald Fennell?
WRITING PROMPTS
Earlier in the week, I started wondering if I’ve written any short stories or followed any prompts that have a similar theme as Wuthering Heights, and there was just one that stood out. So I’ve included that one in here and added another one in for fun.
See the prompts below and my attempts at answering them. Feel free to have a go yourself and share it with us in the comments!
If you wrote a book where fate was trying to push two characters together but they fight against it until they don’t, what would the last line be?
“How naïve I had been to think that my stubbornness had a fighting chance against fate.”
If you wrote a book where one of the main characters die, how would you end it?
“I’ve viewed the world in many shades over the years. Red, when anger oozed out of my pores, skewing my perspective. Pink, when I’ve fallen in love and experienced how powerful the feeling can be. Green, when my ego took charge, before I accepted humility as a friend.
Over the last few months the world has been a kaleidoscope of colours all of the time; a rainbow of balance and safety, consistency and comfortability. Today, God flipped a switch and the world turned black. Colours bear no meaning to me now.”
YOUR TURN
Until Next Time,
Miriam
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