Showing posts with label memoir writing prompt. Show all posts
Showing posts with label memoir writing prompt. Show all posts

Wednesday, April 27, 2011

Creative Writing Prompts with Crocus and Random Words

CROCUS
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Today, for your creative writing prompts, please pick from the following words or any version of the words below.   (For eample, if you would rather use "familiar" instead of "unfamiliar," that is fine.  Or "snoozed" instead of "snooze," etc.)

flitter, inscribe, trickle, reclaim, darken, refuse, crocus, hard knock, unfamiliar, find, snooze, elite, peer, clipped grass, sand trap, crash, snowbird, pail, tulip, willingly

Poetry Prompts: 

1.  Pick one word to be the title of your poem and write a 10 line poem.
2.  Pick at least 7 of the words and use them in a poem. 

Memoir Writing Prompt:  Pick 4 words to weave together a memory and write at least one paragraph about the memory. 

Fiction Writing Prompt:  Pick at least 4 words to start a story.  Put yourself on a timelimit of 8 minutes for both the opening line and what follows.  Continue if you would like to. 

And for your free-write prompt, study the picture.  See how something beautiful pops up of the soil which looks pretty "blah."  Reflect on the image and the concept, then write, write, write.

Thursday, April 14, 2011

Creative Writing Prompts with Kangaroos and John Steinbeck


YOUNG JOEY WITH MUM
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April is National Poetry Month and today we celebrate Poem in Your Pocket Day!
Here is my bonus page of pocket poems for you today.  You can click here:

And for your regular prompts:

Today I also offer you a picture of two kangaroos.  The little one seems to be watching something.

Fiction Writing Prompt: 

Write a short scene about what the kangaroo sees.

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Today is the day The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck was published in 1939.

Here is a quote by John Steinbeck:

"I am impelled, not to squeak like a grateful and apologetic mouse, but to roar like a lion out of pride in my profession."
Memoir Writing Prompt:  Write about a time when you were very proud of something.
Poetry Writing Prompt:  Write a poem about something you are proud of.