Daily Creativity #7: Keep a Visual Diary
Begin keeping a visual diary of your time in quarantine. Take one photograph or draw one picture to add to it daily.
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Begin keeping a visual diary of your time in quarantine. Take one photograph or draw one picture to add to it daily.
Sabrina Guo, a Syosset High School freshman from Long Island, NY–and a name that readers of Stone Soup over the past few years will recognize from her many contributions to the Magazine and blog–has risen to the challenge of COVID-19 in the Long Island community.
Write a story told completely through dialogue.
How do you communicate the differences between characters? How can you make sure that the reader knows what is going on? Can you make action part of natural-sounding speech?
This Daily Creativity prompt is also our first Weekly Flash Contest!
Contest based on Monday's Daily Creativity Prompt
Every weekday morning from March to late August 2020, we published a Daily Creativity prompt. We decided to get everyone focused by turning every Monday's prompt into a Flash Contest! For this rolling weekly contest, all you have to do is pick up the Daily Creativity prompt published on a Monday, and submit your response to it via Submittable by ...
It's Friday--time for some flash fiction! Think of an activity you like to take part in with other people–like football or singing or playing a board game–and write a narrative of fewer than 250 words in which that thing is at the center of the action.
What is your favorite dish or food?
Why?
What memories are associated with it?
Write a personal narrative exploring these questions.
Flip through any book or magazine, creating a list of ten words that catch your eye.
Look up any words you don’t know.
Then write a 14-line poem that incorporates all ten words.
Create a notebook or document dedicated to recording your dreams. To begin, write down as many dreams as you can remember from your life, then try to record your dreams daily as soon as you wake up. Use this repository as inspiration for a poem, story, or piece of art.
Radio producer Cathy Fitzgerald is inviting everyone to share their experiences during this time, through the power of spoken word. She wants to hear your voices talking about how you are feeling, how daily life has changed, and what you are doing that brings joy, comfort, courage, solace–and hope.
Somewhere in China, a bat had a virus.
That is how it started, a virus no one had seen before. It was a coronavirus. The bat passed the virus on to a person, who passed it on to other people in Wuhan, before they even knew they were sick. Now, the whole of Asia has it, as does Europe, and the United States. I live in Maryland, which has 43 cases today.