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Daily Creativity #48: Think about Your Reader

Post Published May 27, 2020 by Jane Levi

Who is your reader? And how do you want that reader to feel? Pick a news topic that you feel passionate about. Choose your reader (an adult, a younger child, someone just like you), and the emotion yo...
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Daily Creativity #42: Write a Story Inspired by a House

Post Published May 19, 2020 by Sarah Ainsworth

Take a look at these photographs of houses from the Library of Congress. Choose one house that speaks to you and write a short story or play that takes place there.
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Daily Creativity #40: Think about Endings and Try Writing a Different One

Post Published May 15, 2020 by Jane Levi

Endings are hard. Try thinking about endings as punctuation: Period: it’s all neatly tied up and finished. Question mark: a few things are left open - whatever will happen next?
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Daily Creativity #34: Create Art Based on What You See Outside Your Window

Post Published May 7, 2020 by Anya Geist

Make 5 sketches of things outside your window, and/or write a 5-line poem about what you see outside your window.
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Daily Creativity #31 | Flash Contest: Draw or Paint a Scene from a Book You’re Reading

Post Published May 4, 2020 by Anya Geist

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 Fla...
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Daily Creativity #30: Write a Collaborative Story

Post Published May 1, 2020

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.
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Daily Creativity #26 | Flash Contest: Write a Story Inspired by a Funny Headline

Post Published April 27, 2020

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.
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Daily Creativity #24: Think About Theme in a Previous Work

Post Published April 23, 2020 by Jane Levi

It’s Thursday, a day for thinking about theme. Your theme is the underlying meaning of your story, or the main idea that it explores, or the message it is trying to convey.
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Daily Creativity #22: Create a Photograph with Unexpected Perspective

Post Published April 21, 2020 by Jane Levi

In cubist paintings, it isn’t always immediately obvious what all the shapes represent. Look at Still Life with Checked Tablecloth by Juan Gris (1887-1927).
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Daily Creativity #18: Get inspired by an everyday object

Post Published April 15, 2020 by Molly Torinus

Find an everyday object that you don't usually give much thought to, and write down every detail you can about it. What does it look, sound, taste, smell, and feel like?
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