Saturday, February 20, 2010

Creative Writing Quick Writes Prompts

Now, I am conscious of the fact that you guys are extremely busy with Year 11 work, but I thought I'd throw a fun challenge at you anyway. Your mission is to have a look at this slideshow and pick ONE creative writing prompt. Write a short story, or script, or poem, or anything. It doesn't have to be long and, in fact, you may wish to BEGIN a story and post it for someone else to continue.

Come on, give it a go!
Creative Writing Quick Writes Prompts
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9 comments:

  1. jeff8February 21, 2010 at 9:50 PM

    once upon a time...

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  2. JoshFebruary 21, 2010 at 9:54 PM

    there lived...

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  3. Rubber bandFebruary 22, 2010 at 10:10 AM

    an insect.

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  4. goodlordFebruary 22, 2010 at 11:12 AM

    Not funny, guys!

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  5. JoshFebruary 22, 2010 at 8:12 PM

    Gee, someone's got no sense of humor, Goodwin! (Just thought I'd rip off your odd choice of position for a ',' as well, haha.)

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  6. AnonymousFebruary 23, 2010 at 4:48 PM

    and the insect...

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  7. goodlordFebruary 23, 2010 at 10:19 PM

    Thanks for your effort, Marie, but if no-one else wants to take this sort of thing the least bit seriously, then I'll take my cricket bat and go home.

    By the way, Josh, a comma traditionally goes before the mention of someone's name in a sentence. In the case of a non-specific pronoun ("guys") the comma rule still stands, similarly with a comma preceding a person's speech requiring inverted commas. The only exception being a direct quote, paraphrased, injected into the middle of your sentence. The comma is not required as it may interrupt the general flow of your idea, regardless of your contextual inclusion - the idea being that YOUR thoughts are blending seamlessly with those of a previous author.

    Oh, and before you attempt to scale the terrifying heights of trying to catch out a teacher on his grammar and punctuation... be sure to spell "humour" correctly.

    Have a lovely evening everybody.

    mg

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  8. JoshFebruary 24, 2010 at 8:36 AM

    When one is on the internet, I really don't think it matters how you spell humor/humour or color/colour because it is called the WORLD WIDE web, so just have a thinky thinky about that. Also, I felt that the comma interupted the flow of you sentence, and just made it a lot more difficult to read. I'm just saying...

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  9. KateFebruary 26, 2010 at 2:39 PM

    I think Goodwin got his bat and left josh :)

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