Daily Creativity #32: Find Inspiration in a Family Tradition
Write a poem or create a piece of art about a family tradition.
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Write a poem or create a piece of art about a family tradition.
An update from our fifth weekly writing workshop
A summary of this week’s project, plus some of the output published below
The Stone Soup Weekly Writing Workshop, held on Fridays at 1:00 p.m. PST, is open to all Stone Soup contributors and subscribers during the COVID-19-related school closures and shelter-in-place arrangements.
Draw or paint a scene from a book you are reading, or have read.
This is a Monday prompt, so if you are writing your response in the week it was first published, you can submit it to our Weekly Flash Contest, via Submittable!
If you decide to submit your artwork to our Flash Contest, be sure to include the following information with your work:
the title of the book
its author, and
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Write a collaborative story with a family member or a friend (digitally, if you don’t live together!). Each person participating writes one sentence, then it’s the next person’s turn.
Watch this movie scene with the sound off, writing your own dialogue. Use that imagined dialogue as the basis for a short story or play.
An update from our fourth weekly writing workshop
A summary of this week's project, plus some of the output published below
The Stone Soup Weekly Writing Workshop is open to all Stone Soup contributors and subscribers during the COVID-19-related school closures and shelter-in-place arrangements.
Be a time traveler! Choose your favorite period in history (ancient Greece, medieval Spain, the Gold Rush–wherever and whenever you like). Think of 3 features that will help your reader know they are in that place and time (like the food, the buildings, the bathroom arrangements…) Then decide who is telling the story. Is it a prince or a pauper?
It’s Tuesday! Write a 20-line poem in which every line begins with the letter “T.” To make it harder: only two of those lines can start with “the.”
Write a short story inspired by one of these funny newspaper headlines.
Visit the Bestlifeonline.com webpage, and read their selection of the “25 Funniest Newspaper Headlines of All Time.” Write a story inspired by your chosen headline.
Remember, today's prompt is this week's Flash Contest. Submit your response here.
Write a personal narrative exploring your relationship with your favorite book or piece of art. What do you love about it, and why? What did you experience when you first read or saw it? How has the piece changed for you as you have either reread it or looked at it again and again over time?