Writing Prompts with Stones

Erik Skipping Stones, a photo by KitAy on Flickr.

For today's creative writing prompts, we will reflect on stones. Free-write for 5 minutes from the prompt "stones".

After you write, see if there is anything from your writing you would like to turn into a story, poem, essay, etc. and go from there.

Story Starter: What did the young man in the picture do before coming to skip stones? What was his day like? Who is this character?

Flannery O'Connor Writng Prompts

 
Happy Birthday to Flannery O'Connor!


Today your prompt will based on only one quote which is by Flannery O'Connor.  Perhaps I went overboard yesterday. 


Here is the quote:

"The writer operates at a peculiar crossroads where time and place and eternity somehow meet. His problem is to find that location."

Fiction Writing Prompt:  Make a list of all the most unusual places you can think of, and then start a story from one of those places.

Poetry Writing Prompt:  Pick one of the following locations below and reference it in a poem. 

Here are your options:

the dump

a closet

a playground

a castle

If you'd like to read more quotes by Flannery O'Connor, you can click on the link below.  Read more: http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/f/flannery_oconnor.html#ixzz1HcAo7Scz


To find out more about Flannery O'Connor, please click here:

http://kirjasto.sci.fi/flannery.htm