Weekly Creativity #186: Take a Photo of Somebody Going About Their Daily Life.
Take a photo of somebody going about their daily life.
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Take a photo of somebody going about their daily life.
A Birthday Cake in a Pandemic
Olivia Ren, 10
I was wandering around my house, not doing anything in particular, just walking around. It was March 16, 2020, and my mom, dad, little sister, and I were trying to adjust to a new life due to COVID-19. By “new life,” I mean a totally different lifestyle.
In 1998, Disney released the animated film Mulan, a musical set in Han China that centers around Fa Mulan, an ambitious girl from a traditional family who takes her father’s place to join the Imperial Army by disguising herself as a boy. With stellar musical renditions and a vivid storyline, Mulan had always been one of my favorites.
Pretend you’re explaining COVID-19 to people in the distant past, and write a scene around this.
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Write about an academic fail, such as flunking a test, and a character’s recovery from it.
Positive
Sarayu B, 11
I got the news sometime in January. I was waiting, waiting, waiting for my grandmother to get better. She had tested positive for COVID-19 earlier, and the more I thought about it, the more it seemed so... unreal. I'd heard about many people who got sick and even died from COVID, but I couldn’t imagine my grandma, the one I knew and loved since my birth, passing away from...
Write a short story that begins and ends in this place: Fisherman’s Cottage (1906) by Harald Sohlberg (1869-1935).
We have lived in this world for so long that we often forget to notice its beauties and terrors. Although a blossoming of flowers on a tree branch or the putrid smoke of factory pollution might be perfectly normal to us, there’s something incredibly special about them in different ways.
An update from our thirty-first Book Club meeting!
On Saturday, September 11th, our final Book Club meeting of the year, we were so very fortunate to be joined by renowned author and historian, Lucy Worsley, to discuss her book, The Austen Girls.
The session was small, which meant that we were able to have thorough in-depth conversations with Ms.
Take a photo of somebody whose reflection looks different from their body.