Daily Creativity #87: Write a Piece Using Words Picked from a Magazine
Flip through a book or magazine and pick five to ten words that interest you, and write a piece using those words.
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Flip through a book or magazine and pick five to ten words that interest you, and write a piece using those words.
Write about a character waiting for something, but don’t reveal what they’re waiting for until the end.
Mio Akiyama had always been the odd one out. She tried to blend in, at home, at school, but no matter how hard she tried, she always stuck out. It wasn’t that she looked different, no. She looked nearly identical to the other girls in her class. She had long, black hair, and gray-brown eyes. That wasn’t it. And she wasn’t poor or rich either, somewhere in between.
In the Basement A little boy Was in the basement Of a house so old and crumbly
The doors were rotted The windows cracked The floors creaked and groaned
And every night When the moon shone upon A scraggly tree out front
The winds would blow And wrack the house In ghastly shivers and chills
The little boy did not mind, though For unlike you might think, His basement was not moldy and gross
It did no...
A Day in the Life of a Mask
Andrew Li, 11
A used face mask lay in the biohazard bin, where it had been placed once the doctor had finished his workday. He remembered the days of when he had just been created and was waiting to be shipped away. He was loaded into a box with other masks, then loaded into another box, then those boxes were loaded into a large steel shipping container.
Take a panorama image with your phone/ tablet/ other device with this feature, but move the camera quickly around the room or area to create a collage of your surroundings.
Free
Alexandra Sheinkin, 12
I made an inspiring song called "Free," working title "The Quarantine Song." It is uplifting and optimistic.
Watch and listen to Alexandra performing her song below.
Do you play guitar? Alexandra has shared her chords and lyrics so you can perform her song for yourselves - look just beneath the video.
https://youtu.
Jot down a list of all your traits. Write a fantasy story revolving around a character that shares some, if not all of these same traits and see what they do. How do they handle the situation? Then, add in a villain of the story with complete opposite traits. Will the main character duel with the villain? Run away? How will the two characters interact?
An update from our fifteenth Weekly Writing Workshop!
A summary of the workshop, plus some of the output published below
The Stone Soup Weekly Writing Workshop is open to all Stone Soup contributors and subscribers. Every Friday, we meet for an hour-and-a-half via Zoom to respond to a new writing challenge, write together in our virtual room, and then share what we have written with one another.