Weekly Creativity #208: Write a Story Based on the Best Advertisement You Ever Saw
Write a story based on the best advertisement you ever saw.
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Write a story based on the best advertisement you ever saw.
Take a photo of the most common wild animal in your neighborhood.
An update from our sixty-seventh Writing Workshop
A summary of the workshop held on Saturday, June 4th, plus some of the output published below
In this workshop, students focused on the rhythm and sound of their writing and looked to Beethoven's Fifth Symphony, Klingon poetry, and J. R. R. Tolkien's Elvish languages for inspiration.
An update from our fortieth Writing Workshop with Conner Bassett
A summary of the workshop held on Saturday, June 4
This week, Emma Hoff, 10, led workshop with her own interpretation of ekphrasis, a favorite topic of the Stone Soup workshops. For the workshop portion, Emma presented us with the following three paintings and their accompanying ekphrastic interpretations.
Weekly Creativity #207 | Flash Contest #44: Write a Scene in which You Meet Your Past or Future Self
Write a scene (story, poem, or play) in which you meet your past or future self.
Handwrite a story/poem if you usually type, or type a story/poem if you usually write by hand.
An update from our sixty-sixth Writing Workshop
A summary of the workshop held on Saturday, May 21st
In this workshop, students practiced writing descriptively about the natural world with examples from J. R. R. Tolkien. William showed pictures of various landscapes, including a few he had taken himself, and as a mini-challenge, had students describe what they saw.
An update from our thirty-eighth Writing Workshop with Conner Bassett
A summary of the workshop held on Saturday, May 21, plus some of the output published below
This week we focused on the literary device of anaphora, meaning a repetition of word or phrase at the beginning of successive sentences or poetic lines. From the greek, literally "a carrying back.
Take three photos of the same person experiencing different (real, not staged) emotions.
A note from Emma
Letters crash
around me like
waves in a storm…
In this poem, Lilly Davatzes is clearly writing about dyslexia (it’s the title!). I am not dyslexic, but a few of my close friends are. And this poem unlocked something for me about what that means.