A place that is yours

Please think of a place that you feel somehow belongs to you. It doesn't have to be your room, it could be somewhere that you go by yourself or with friends. But think of it and describe both it and your history with it.

Please write the story of this picture.

Please partner up and answer the following questions.

Please start your letter with the name of the person that you would like to aplolgize to. Then, be thorough in your apology. Recount why you are sorry. Mean it. This doesn't mean that you will ever give this to anyone, but it might just make you feel better anyway.

Hope
   
It hovers in dark corners
before the lights are turned on,
it shakes sleep from its eyes
and drops from mushroom gills,
it explodes in the starry heads
of dandelions turned sages,
it sticks to the wings of green angels
that sail from the tops of maples.

It sprouts in each occluded eye
of the many-eyed potato,
it lives in each earthworm segment
surviving cruelty,
it is the motion that runs the tail of a dog,
it is the mouth that inflates the lungs
of the child that has just been born.

It is the singular gift
we cannot destroy in ourselves,
the argument that refutes death,
the genius that invents the future,
all we know of God.

It is the serum which makes us swear
not to betray one another;
it is in this poem, trying to speak.
   
~ Lisel Mueller ~

After reading the poem above, try to describe one of the following emotions with a poem of your own, taking into consideration the use of imagry that Lisel Mueller uses to push her idea forward.

Try it with:

Despair    Anger     Compassion    Pride, or choose another emotion of your own.

Every story needs a few different elements. This writing prompt will supply you with those, remember, you have to choose before you click on the links!

Every story needs a protagonist. Choose one
   Corey         Claire       Jordan

Every Story needs a setting
   Home 1        Home 2       Home3

Every protagonist needs motivation
  Wants 1          Wants2        Wants 3

Every story needs something in the way of success.
Problem 1      Problem 2        Problem  3      

Have fun!!

rain

Please write a short piece letting rain figure its way into the center of your writing.

Scars... We all have them, emotional or otherwise. Write about scars taht you have.

Acting Warmup

opposites

I say a word and you say the opposite as fast as you can.

Please write the beginning of a piece taking into mind the picture for your setting and the mood of the music for the mood of your piece.

Music is Olafur Arnalds: Loftid Vercur Skyndilega Kalt
Here is a link on youtube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ar2lSFBl6lA

Free Rice

Read ..... React

Please read the following article from the New Yorker and respond.
Hunger Games

Roast beef

Sandwhich prompt.
Please begin your writing with: I flipped on the TV and there you were. 
And end it with: Burnt toast doesn't smell very good, but it always makes me think of you.

The things I left behind

We live lives that are forward... always getting new things... new friends... new experiences. In all of this push, we leave many things behind. I want you to think about something that was significant to you when you were younger and write about what it meant to you and its abscence in your life now.

Hey, What's up? Yeah... um nothin...

Please write down five things that have happened in your life.

Please partner up with someone, randomly if you're brave, and pick one of the things on their list. You will have two minutes to interview them about the thing you chose. Now, for the next ten minutes, try your hardest to recreate what happened in story form. Include tons of detail and even dialogue if you want. Read it to your partner afterward and see how close you got it! :)

Round Robin

Everyone today will start their writing with this sentence:

"I walked out of my door this morning, and through the glare of the sunlight, I saw it, and it was moving."

Then after three minutes has passed, you will exchange your books with the person on your right. They will read only the part that was written right before them and continue the story. Every once and a while, I will choose one of the following subjects below for you to include in your entry.

subject 1  subject 2  subject 3  subject 4  subject 5  subject 6  subject 7  subject 8

missing

Please list out the five most important things in your life. Be general, like friends, family, etc.
No start a small fictional piece about someone who is missing one of those things.

Please write a dialogue between the two characters in this picture. Use correct dialogue form and be creative!

Here is a quote from seetheperfection.com, someone's blog. Actually, here is the full link for anyone reading this out in interville.

7. All people operate from the same two motivations: to fulfil their desires and to escape their suffering.

 

Learning this allowed me to finally make sense of how people can hurt each other so badly. The best explanation I had before this was that some people are just bad. What a cop-out. No matter what kind of behaviour other people exhibit, they are acting in the most effective way they are capable of (at that moment) to fulfill a desire or to relieve their suffering. These are motives we can all understand; we only vary in method, and the methods each of us has at our disposal depend on our upbringing and our experiences in life, as well as our state of consciousness. Some methods are skilful and helpful to others, others are unskilful and destructive, and almost all destructive behaviour is unconscious. So there is no good and evil, only smart and dumb (or wise and foolish.) Understanding this completely shook my long-held notions of morality and justice.

 

If this is true, what implications does it have for you in school? What are your real goals for being here?

Today's writing prompt is easy... but it is important as well. Today, consider this journal to be a diary. Write what is on your mind.

picture prompt

Please write the story of this picture. Remember to put your dialogue in the right form.

Who are you?

Consider yourself. Which of these three are you going to be when you get older. Explain what kind of traits you already posses that leads you to that conclusion.

The Homesteader

The Mogul

or the Explorer

Protagonists...

Please use one of the following options as a protagonist in your 10 minute story. (Pick before you click)

option 1     option 2      option 3   option 4     option 5

Voice

We all have voice, the nuances that make our words and mannerisms our own. I want you to choose a picture below and write in the voice of the character you choose. Try to think how they would speak, the words they would choose.

The school district is developing a policy for students, and teachers regarding social media. What are your thoughts. Is facebook important? Is it dangerous? Are there more dangerous things out there... formspring etc? What is the danger of social media?

Three Circles

three circles

Please draw three circles on your paper a little larger than a quarter. Leave some space in between them. Write the names of three people that are really important to you in them, one in each. Please then draw three connecting circles off of each of those. Write one thing they need, in each of them. Try to be as personal as you can with their needs. Three circles off of each of those. Please write three ways you can help them with their needs each in one of those circles.

Please write the story of the following picture.

Imagine...... you woke up this morning with _______________________  in your hands. Explain how it got there. (choose before you start writing.)

option 1    option 2     option 3     option 4    option 5   option 6

Rules

Please answer the following questions in complete honesty.
Rules

You're such a character

We walked through the trees until we came to the next house. There was someone standing in the backyard by a shed. They were jumping erratically up and down. Then, they turned and saw me looking at them. To my surprise they walked right up to me and began to introduce themselves.
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Please take the first minute and write down the first ten words that come to your mind when describing the smell of the object in the picture.

Next, please write a short piece of fiction using the smell of the object as the center of your writing without using any of the words in your list.