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Daily Creativity #16 | Flash Contest: Write from the Point of View of an Animal

Editor’s note: For this week’s Daily Creativity prompts, we’ve got a special takeover! Molly Torinus, Stone Soup reader and contributor, has written the five prompts we’ll be posting for the week. For today’s, which is the week’s Flash Contest, she will also be co-judge!

Write about a day in the life of your pet or a friend’s pet, as if you were that pet. Remember to think about what it might be like to be an animal. How do they see the world? What do they think about humans and their fellow animals? What are their hopes, their dreams, their fears? This is a great exercise in point of view.